Finance Analyst - Lease Systems (12 Month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 06 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400021619
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.
Join our Finance – Financial Control & Reporting team in Lease Accounting & Control. We’re a collaborative group focused on strong financial controls and continuous improvement. You’ll work with colleagues across the business and external partners, helping to keep our lease accounting accurate, timely and well controlled. Location is flexible with hybrid working.
More about the roleYou will improve how we account for leases by identifying and delivering enhancements and automation across our systems and processes. You’ll support the control framework, reviewing and documenting processes, testing their effectiveness and driving remediation where needed.
Day to day, you’ll partner with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business, respond to lease accounting queries (including at senior level), and provide information to the wider business. You’ll also produce ad‑hoc analysis to drive better decisions and outcomes.
More about youYou’re a proactive self‑starter who enjoys taking ownership and working independently once up to speed. You build strong relationships, communicate clearly and bring a control mindset to your work. You learn new systems quickly and are comfortable shaping change and improvements.
You have a solid understanding of lease accounting processes and are confident using technology to streamline tasks and improve accuracy.
Essential criteria- Proven ability to identify and deliver automation or process improvements in finance (tools agnostic).
- Applied understanding of lease accounting processes and control frameworks.
- Ability to spot control gaps, design mitigating controls and drive remediation to completion.
- Clear, influential communicator able to partner with stakeholders up to senior management.
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).
