Personal Assistant - Audit and Risk (6 month 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: 03 September 2026
Requisition ID: 400076108
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's means becoming part of an organisation that places the customer at the centre of everything it does. As a Personal Assistant, you will play a crucial role in supporting Directors to excel in their roles by providing professional and confidential assistance. In our agile environment, you will collaborate seamlessly with teams across the business, utilising the exceptional knowledge, insight, and talent available to us. With opportunities for learning and development, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive range of benefits, including flexible working arrangements, you'll be joining a team that values work-life balance and prioritises the growth and well-being of its employees. Be part of a company that cherishes its values, fosters strong relationships, and places a high emphasis on excellence and confidentiality in everything we do.
What you'll be doing
As a Personal Assistant at Sainsbury's, your role will be crucial in supporting Director(s) to effectively carry out their daily responsibilities. You will provide professional and confidential support, handling administrative, organisational, and analytical tasks typical of a PA. This will include managing diaries, coordinating internal and external meetings, events, and conferences, as well as assisting with presentations, arranging travel and accommodation, and handling expenses. You will act as the first point of contact for the team, investigating queries and ensuring timely and accurate responses. Additionally, you will prioritise and track information required by leaders, collating agendas, recording meeting minutes, and facilitating clear and timely communication with stakeholders at all levels. You will work collaboratively across different functions and build strong professional relationships with the leaders, maintaining discretion and confidentiality. Your excellent communication skills, organisation abilities, and attention to detail will be essential in fulfilling these responsibilities effectively.
Who you are
You are a highly organised and proactive professional dedicated to supporting Directors in their day-to-day roles. With exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, you excel in managing diaries, organising meetings and events, and ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of information. Your proficiency in Microsoft packages and Sainsbury's systems, coupled with your strong analytical and numeracy skills, enables you to handle large amounts of complex information, investigate and analyse data, and provide valuable insights. With your ability to engage and build relationships at all levels, maintain confidentiality, and exercise sound judgment, you contribute to the smooth functioning of the team and the overall success of the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience providing administrative and diary management support to senior leaders, including coordinating meetings, events, travel and accommodation arrangements.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, track actions and deliver accurate information within agreed timescales in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience preparing business documentation, such as presentations, agendas, meeting minutes and stakeholder communications.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and experience using business systems to manage, analyse or report on information.
- Demonstrable ability to handle confidential information appropriately and build effective working relationships with stakeholders at a range of levels.
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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's 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, salary 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).
