Finance Analyst - Trading

Sainsbury's; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK retailer is seeking a Finance Analyst to join their Fresh Food team in London. The role focuses on data analysis and business partnering to drive performance across various trading categories. Ideal candidates will be proactive and possess strong financial acumen along with excellent communication skills. You will support decision-making and enhance financial performance, all while enjoying a range of employee benefits including discounts and a performance-related bonus.

Benefits

Colleague discount of 10%

Performance-related bonus up to 10%

Annual holiday allowance

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Must be part qualified or qualified accountant.
• Strong Excel and numerical skills required.
• Demonstrate effective networking and partnering skills.
• Able to articulate finance concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Focus on driving financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support to Commercial Trading teams.
• Produce analyses for decision-making and forecasting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance financial performance.
• Support investment decisions and simplify processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Strong Excel skills

Communication skills

Networking skills

Commercial acumen

Education

Part Qualified / Qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA

Job description

Job Description

Please note, this role is based out of our London Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Analyst - Fresh Food offers a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic and fast-paced environment where your contributions directly impact business decisions that drive performance and growth. With a focus on business partnering, data analysis, and strategic insights, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to shape the direction of key trading categories within Fresh. This role provides a platform for continuous learning, professional development, and the chance to work with a team of dedicated individuals who are committed to delivering excellence and making a positive impact on both customers and the business.

What you'll do

As a Finance Analyst within the Fresh Food Commercial Finance team, you will be responsible for providing crucial financial support to the Commercial Trading teams for Bakery & Food to Go, Food To Eat In, and Food To Order categories within Fresh. Your role as a business partner will involve producing insightful analyses to support decision-making, forecasting, and maximising sales, profit, return on investment, and cash flow. You will work closely with stakeholders, challenge ways of working, drive transformation, and play a key role in shaping and delivering the 3-year 'Next Level Sainsbury's' strategy for highly propositional trading categories. Additionally, you will support on investment decisions, simplify processes, and collaborate with various teams to enhance financial and commercial performance while maintaining strong relationships across the business.

Who you are

You are a proactive and analytical individual with a strong financial acumen and the ability to provide valuable insights and analysis to drive business performance. With your excellent communication skills and stakeholder management abilities, you play a crucial role in supporting the Commercial Trading teams in making informed decisions and maximising financial outcomes. Your self-motivation, commercial mindset, and willingness to challenge the status quo contribute to your success in driving transformation and delivering high-quality financial support within a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Essential criteria

• Part Qualified / Qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA
• Strong Excel and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight
• Demonstratable networking and partnering skills with experience of communicating effectively with senior stakeholders, both verbally and written
• Ability to articulate finance for non-finance
• Strong commercial acumen, with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance

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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).