Finance Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 09 October 2025
Requisition ID: 400022653
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.
In a nutshell
This role is responsible for supporting a Division to deliver their strategic and financial plan, being a finance business partner for commercial decision making. The job holder will provide support and challenge, working cross-functionally with business stakeholders, to deliver financial objectives. The job holder will represent the Division across the business where interdependencies exist and will understand the commercial and operational drivers of end-to-end financial performance. They will be responsible for business partnering both non finance and finance colleagues to provide analysis and insight into financial performance and scenario modelling across the P&L, focused on value creation.
What you need to do
Supporting the Division in the delivery of their strategic and financial plans
Help scope, establish and embed financial processes and reporting
Act as Finance Business Partner for the Division, interpreting management reporting to provide financial insight, analysis and constructive challenge to stakeholders
Financial analysis to support the Division in the refinement and development of the proposition, working in close collaboration with other core divisions, together with their financial counterparts.
Working with stakeholders, to ensure a robust, accurate and realistic forward projection is produced, including Corporate Plan, Budget and Latest Views. Responsible for ensuring alignment of sales, margin and cost projections with other divisions and their finance teams.
Identify risks and opportunities and work with the business to manage them.
Attend regular department meetings ensuring financial impacts are a key consideration
Contribute towards materials prepared by the Division, ensuring financial information and messaging is fair and accurate.
Stepping up to cover the other members of the Finance Team where needed.
Supporting several ad hoc projects and various teams as required
Success in this role will mean being able to deliver timely, robust and accurate analysis; translating data into valuable business insight, communicating all relevant financial and non-financial information to enhance performance.
What you need to know and show (Essential Criteria)
Working towards a becoming Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
Strong commercial acumen with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
Effective communicator, influencer, including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen
Strong Excel and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight
High levels of pace, energy and resilience
A self-starter, and a strong team player that can work independently, spotting the areas to focus on and assisting in the decision-making process
Must have a strong eye for detail and a passion for accuracy
What decisions can I make
Prioritisation of deliverables in line with Corporate and Business Partner expectations
Influence business decisions through financial insight
Directly or indirectly manages
N/A
Support we will provide
Line management support
Access to CPD and on the job training
Training both on the Job and via Sainsbury’s L&D offer including face to face sessions and online resources.
Date of last job evaluation
N/A
Hay rating
C4
Please note: This role profile is aimed at describing the core output that should be achieved in this role. It is not intended to include specific tasks, temporary activities or projects to recognise flexibility in a changing context.
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).
