Sainsbury's
Finance Analyst - Argos Logistics
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Amazing Work and Real Work-Life Balance
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving 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 scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.
Location: London or Coventry Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why Join Us
Joining the Finance team at Argos offers a unique opportunity to make a tangible impact within the dynamic and fast-paced world of Argos Logistics. As a Finance Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in shaping strategic decisions, driving cost efficiencies, and improving profitability. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, you will have the chance to work alongside talented professionals, influence key stakeholders, and contribute to the overall success of the business. This role provides an exciting platform for personal and professional growth, offering a supportive environment where your skills and expertise are valued and where you can truly make a difference in a leading retail organisation.
What You'll Do
As a Finance Analyst within the Large Item channel, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Large Item operational teams by providing accurate cost reporting and forecasting aligned with strategic objectives. By collaborating with operational and commercial teams, you will analyse trends, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend solutions to drive forecast accuracy and improve profitability. Your ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influence outcomes, and provide clear, actionable insights will be crucial in shaping strategy, optimising costs, and supporting business objectives. Additionally, you will contribute to wider Logistics cost initiatives, simplify reporting processes, and spend time within the operation to develop a deep understanding of cost drivers and operational challenges, ensuring that your financial analysis is grounded in business reality.
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Who You Are
You are a part or fully qualified accountant with a keen eye for detail and a strong ability to turn data into actionable insights. Your commercial acumen and excellent communication skills enable you to effectively collaborate with operational and commercial teams, influencing outcomes and driving improvements in cost reporting and forecasting. With a proactive approach to problem-solving and a natural curiosity to understand underlying business drivers, you play a crucial role in providing financial analysis that supports strategic decision-making and enhances operational efficiency within the Large Item lines of the business.
Essential Criteria
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or actively studying towards a recognised professional accountancy qualification
- Demonstrable capability in Excel and financial/numerical analysis, with evidence of interpreting data to generate business insight. Experience using SQL and data visualisation tools, such as Power BI is desirable
- Proven commercial awareness, including experience influencing, challenging and engaging stakeholders to support decision-making
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present analysis and recommendations clearly to a range of audiences
- Proven ability to prioritise workload, solve problems using a detail-oriented approach, and work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
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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).
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