Finance Analyst

3 weeks ago

London Central, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time
Job Description

Why join us

Joining our Supply Chain and Logistics Finance team at Sainsbury's means being part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where you can make a significant impact. As a Finance professional in this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with stakeholders to provide valuable insights, analysis, and commentary that drive decision-making and improve our bottom line. With a focus on value creation and performance improvement, you will have the chance to contribute to the success of our business and strengthen our partnerships. We value professional growth and development, offering support, training, and a flexible work-life balance that allows you to excel in your role while enjoying personal fulfilment outside of work. Join us and be part of a team that delivers timely and accurate analysis, translates data into valuable insights, and drives meaningful outcomes for our organisation.

The role

The role is responsible for generating insightful reporting which is used by stakeholders to make informed commercial decisions, while maintaining a robust controls process to ensure accuracy, and driving development of existing reporting and moving towards automation. The job holder will provide insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders, aiming to influence and drive decisions and actions that improve the bottom line. They will also have experience with Business Intelligence tools such as Power BI, and a solid foundation in data modelling, warehousing, and analytics. This individual will support the Finance Managers and Senior Finance Managers in the Logistics division and the wider Finance team as required.

What you need to do

• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, including story telling across both backwards looking and forward looking performance
• Support in embedding a new reporting vision, through process improvement, reviewing manual reporting processes and providing support to identify opportunities to automate and streamline
• Run and interpret management reporting to provide timely insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders
• Lead development of new reporting using BI tools, and assisting with data modelling, warehousing and visualisation
• Identify risks and opportunities to trends and flag these to Finance Manager and business partners for onward action
• Complete ad hoc / bespoke analysis for the business area as required to drive improvements
• Work with the wider Logistics Finance team, supporting the Business Partners, Insight & Analysis and Strategy teams
• Work with internal teams including FP&A, Cost Accounting, Supply Chain, and ADA as required to complete analysis to resolve business problems.
• Build business cases and support post implementation reviews
• Support the wider team on other Finance processes, such as budgets, LV, Q2F and forecasting as required.
• Attend business review meetings presenting to and supporting our Stakeholders as needed
• Success in this role will mean being able to deliver timely, robust and accurate analysis; translating data into valuable business insight, communicating all relevant financial and non-financial information when needed
• Generate reporting packs and presentations on KPIs and financial data

What you need to know and show

• Essential: Strong Excel and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight and being able to clearly articulate this through your communication
• Essential: Strong BI (preferably Power BI) tool knowledge, with experience in data modelling and warehousing, and data visualisation
• Strong commercial acumen
• To have a good track record of strong reporting control, but also the ability to maintain such an environment
• Must have a strong eye for detail and accuracy
• Team player, able to work effectively within frameworks without direct supervision
• Effective communicator with all levels of stakeholders, including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen
• Curiosity beyond traditional finance boundaries and ability to understand key business drivers
• Self-motivated team player, able to work autonomously, prioritise with good problem-solving abilities
• Ability to prioritise workload whilst managing business and finance stakeholder expectations in a fast paced, ever changing environment

Responsibilities

We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we're not handling projects, we're helping all corners of the wider group with what they're trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you'll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there's always something else around the corner, and we'll help and support you every step of the way. We're trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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