Financial Accountant

4 weeks ago

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

Finance & Business Development - Financial Accountant - Balance Sheets

Why join us

Joining our Finance team at Sainsbury's provides an exciting opportunity to strengthen financial control and make a significant impact within our organisation. As a member of this dynamic team, you will have the chance to provide valuable insights, analysis, and commentary to stakeholders, influencing decisions and actions that improve our balance sheet position. With a focus on continuous improvement, collaboration, and development, we support our employees in achieving their professional goals through coaching, access to CPD, and on-the-job training. We value work-life balance, offering flexibility in how, where, and when you work, ensuring you have the time and space to enjoy life outside of work while contributing to our business objectives. Join us and be part of a team where your expertise and financial acumen will thrive, enabling you to make a difference in a fast-paced and challenging environment.

What you'll do

As a Financial Accountant, reporting to the Group Balance Sheet Manager and working within the Finance team, you will play a crucial role in strengthening financial control within the Finance Division. You will be responsible for providing insight, analysis, and commentary on balance sheet performance to stakeholders, aiming to influence and drive decisions that improve the balance sheet position. You will champion the Group Balance Sheet Reconciliation policy, identify risks and anomalies, and flag them to the Finance Manager and Senior Finance Managers for prioritization. Additionally, you will build a strong understanding of finance systems and international accounting standards to engage Finance colleagues effectively. Furthermore, you will complete bespoke analysis, collaborate with internal teams to resolve business problems, manage balance sheet reporting, and contribute to continuous improvement on reconciliations and financial control. Your role will also involve supporting business projects, running training sessions on tool usage and process improvements, and making decisions regarding the proper application of finance principles.

Who you are
  • Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA).
  • Strong Excel skills (including lookups and pivot tables) and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight and being able to clearly articulate this through your communication.
  • Strong Oracle financials (or other ERP systems), BlackLine Financial Reporting Tool, and MS Power Bi, skills required.
  • Strong challenging skills and professional skeptism in order to analyse technical accounting and classifications of balances within reconciliations and challenge colleagues to make improvements.
  • Strong commercial acumen
  • To have a good track record of strong financial control, but also the ability to maintain such control in a fast-paced environment.
  • 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
  • Self-motivated team player, able to work autonomously, prioritise with good problem-solving abilities
  • Must have a strong eye for detail and accuracy


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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