Commercial Finance Analyst - Supplier Planning (12M FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Transformation
Closing date: 19 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400065235
Location: London Store Support Centre & Home - colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining the Commercial Finance team at Sainsbury's as a Finance Analyst - Supplier Planning means being at the forefront of driving strategic decisions and shaping the future of our business. In this dynamic and competitive industry, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with Finance and Non-Finance stakeholders, providing valuable insights and analytical support that directly impact our commercial negotiations and drive shared growth with our suppliers. By immersing yourself in the intricacies of our business models and leveraging your analytical skills, you will play a key role in maximising sales, profit, and overall business performance while upholding our values and creating a positive work environment.
What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in supporting the Commercial Finance team by providing insightful analysis and financial modelling to facilitate decision-making during commercial negotiations. Your responsibilities will include partnering with both finance and non-finance stakeholders, conducting scenario modelling, analysing negotiation outcomes, and communicating analysis and insights effectively to drive strategic discussions and reviews. Success in this role will be demonstrated through your ability to develop and analyse Excel models for supplier plans, understand commercial levers relevant to the buying area, gather information from various sources, track benefit realisation, and contribute to enhancing the organisation's understanding of supply base economics while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Who you are
You are a dedicated professional with a strong background in financial analysis and insight, particularly within the FMCG, Food, or Retail industry. Your ability to collaborate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders, coupled with your expertise in scenario modelling and financial impact analysis, enables you to provide valuable support during commercial negotiations and decision-making processes. With a keen analytical mindset, attention to detail, and a commitment to fostering strong relationships across cross-functional teams, you play a pivotal role in driving sustainable growth and maximising financial outcomes for the business.
Essential Criteria
- Part qualified / qualified accountant – CIMA/ACCA/ACA
- Demonstrable experience working in a large FMCG, Food, or Retail business, including application of commercial margin levers and understanding of supplier business models
- Proven ability to analyse complex data sets and generate accurate outputs and insights that inform and support commercial decision-making
- Demonstrated capability to identify, assess and resolve business problems, producing clear and insight-led recommendations
- Evidence of effective collaboration with cross-functional teams (e.g. Buying, Supply Chain, Category Planning, Finance), including building working relationships to deliver shared objectives
- Proven ability to communicate progress, risks and issues through structured reporting, including regular updates in meetings and written reports
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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).
