Finance Assistant - Supplier Funding

TN United Kingdom; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading retailer as a Finance Assistant in Coventry, where you will collaborate with trading teams to optimize margins and ensure compliance with funding agreements. This role involves logging supplier income and supporting the buying function with best practices in supplier income accounting. Enjoy a supportive work environment that values innovation and offers a range of benefits including discounts and flexible working.

Benefits

Colleague Discount

Pensions Scheme

Life Cover

Performance-related Bonus

Annual Holiday Allowance

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health Cash Plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills required.
• Experience using Excel is essential.
• Attention to detail for high-quality output.

Responsibilities

• Log and collect supplier income daily.
• Work closely with buying teams to ensure timely funding deals.
• Assist teams and suppliers with funding questions.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication

Attention to Detail

Organizational Skills

Tools

Excel

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Sainsbury's

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Coventry, United Kingdom

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Posted:

17.05.2025

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01.07.2025

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Finance & Business Development - Finance Assistant - Supplier Funding

When you join our team at Sainsbury's, you become part of a dynamic and collaborative organisation that values innovation and strives for excellence. As a member of our finance team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with our commercial trading teams, providing them with accurate reporting and insights to optimise their margins and ensure compliance with funding agreements. Join us and be part of a team that values trust, collaboration, simplicity, and results, where you can make a real impact and further develop your career.

In a nutshell

We have many different types of funding arrangements with suppliers that each provide unique complexities towards reaching our aim of recognising, collecting and accounting for funding as effectively as possible. This role will support the logging and collection of supplier income and be a key contact for the Argos buying function to support them on a day to day basis and develop best practices in supplier income accounting.On a day to day basis the job holder is expected to be close to the detail of transactions within supplier income, whilst able to communicate key issues succinctly as part of the bigger picture.

What you need to do

• Understand the supplier funding tools by familiarising yourself with the different sources of funding and the different complexities that exist. Gain knowledge of how the tools work to be able to assist teams and suppliers with questions on an adhoc basis.
• Responsible for collating and logging funding on a day to day basis ensuring that funding is logged on a timely basis.
• Work with buying teams and Finance Operations to ensure funding deals are collected on a timely basis and that the company’s cash flow remains as strong as possible.
• Work with buying teams through regular interactions with the buyers, embedding yourself within their teams as a true business partner for all supplier funding matters.

What you need to know and show

• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience using excel.
• Attention to detail providing high quality output in a timely manner.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• A good communicator that works well in a team.
• Motivated and organised individual.

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.

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 5% 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.