Finance Analyst - Tech

Sainsbury's; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Finance Analyst to join their Tech team. The role involves providing financial insights, supporting budgeting processes, and ensuring accuracy in financial reporting. Candidates should have strong analytical skills and be qualified accountants (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA). This position offers flexibility in working hours and a range of employee benefits including discounts, pension contributions, and generous holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Discounts of 10-15% on products

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension matching contributions

Wellbeing support

Cycle to Work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Performance-related bonus

Qualifications

• Proven track record of financial analysis, reporting, and planning.
• Must be a professionally qualified or part-qualified accountant.
• Strong Excel and numerical skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide analysis and insights on financial decision-making.
• Support the creation of financial models and budgets.
• Complete timely financial reporting for capital projects.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excel proficiency

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Education

ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualification

Job description

Finance Analyst – Sainsburys Tech

In a nutshell

Make a valuable, visible difference. In this Financial Analyst Role, you’ll partner with Sainsbury’s Tech as it delivers the Sainsbury’s Next Level Strategy with Technology at its heart. We have the entrepreneurial, exploratory, and fast paced mindset of a start‑up, driving innovation within a FTSE100 company whose products are used by more than 70% of the UK population.

You will be a vital part of the Technology Finance team and will support the overall Change (Capex & Opex) reporting, analytics, and planning for Sainsbury’s Tech. Sainsbury’s Tech are bringing digital, technology and data together like never before to create amazing systems and technologies across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat. The role will have an impact on anything from the way we run our stores to faster deliveries and innovative contactless check‑out technology.

What I need to do

• Work collaboratively with Tech colleagues to provide analysis and insights on all financial aspects of decision‑making in relation to Technology Change Reporting (Capex & Opex).
• Complete the Change Latest View and Period End actuals process in a timely manner, ensuring accuracy of data. Support the creation of insights and commentary on key movements across technology initiatives and projects.
• Maintain and improve financial controls including Fix16 and Fix6 processes, ensuring accurate budget transfers, reconciliations, and evidence documentation. Collaborate with stakeholders to reflect decisions in Planview and ensure compliance.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the importance of financial controls and governance.
• Support the creation and ongoing management of financial models, ensuring data integrity, robust analysis, and preparation of management packs.
• Support the creation of the Annual Budget and Corporate Plan.
• Complete timely and accurate ad hoc reporting and analysis as required across capital projects to support decision‑making.
• Continually challenge current methods of reporting to ensure stakeholders receive the most relevant and actionable insights. Bring a mindset of continuous improvement to deliver best‑in‑class reporting.
• Work alongside and support the wider Sainsbury’s Tech team on various financial projects.

Who you are?

• This is one of the most forward‑facing areas of the business you can partner with, with dramatic changes of pace. If you are excited by the speed and direction of technological progress, you will thrive here.
• We are seeking a proactive and detail‑oriented Finance Analyst to join the Product Tech Team with a strong eye for detail and accuracy.
• Be highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate records, and meet tight deadlines across recurring and ad hoc tasks.
• Beyond that, you are an ambitious professionally qualified or part‑qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA) with previous financial experience ideally within a complex organisation.
• You have good financial acumen with excellent analytical skills.
• 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.
• You’ll need to be an effective finance partner/analyst demonstrating communicating, influencing and challenging skills.
• You will also be self‑motivated team player with a positive attitude and the ability to prioritise and respond accurately under pressure.

What we’ll give you

Work‑life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Alongside a market‑leading rate of pay, we also offer a great range of benefits for all our colleagues, including:

• Discounts of 10-15% on Sainsbury’s, Tu, Argos and Habitat products.
• Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave.
• Pension – we’ll match 4-7% of your pension contributions.
• Sainsbury’s share scheme – build up an investment at discounted prices.
• Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice.
• Colleague networks – link with like‑minded people to help fulfil your potential.
• Cycle to Work scheme – hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI.
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Essential Criteria

• Must be a professionally qualified or part‑qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, or CIMA), or actively working towards qualification.
• Proven track record of delivering financial analysis, reporting, and planning in a large or complex business environment.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and numerical analysis, with the ability to transform data into actionable insights and present findings clearly.
• Highly organised, able to manage recurring and ad hoc tasks simultaneously, maintaining accuracy and timeliness under pressure.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed wherever 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.

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 as 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).

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.