Finance Analyst - Order To Cash (12Month Ftc)

Job Description
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Analyst - Order to Cash means becoming part of a dynamic and collaborative organisation that is dedicated to delivering value and achieving outstanding performance. As a valued member of our team, you will play a vital role in maximising the efficiency of our retail takings reconciliation processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. You will have the opportunity to work closely with various stakeholders, both internal and external, and provide insightful analysis while offering support and enhancing understanding of financial processes. With a strong focus on maintaining robust financial controls and excellent stakeholder management, your attention to detail and commitment to delivering outstanding results will thrive in our inclusive and supportive environment. Join us and be part of a team that values your expertise and offers significant opportunities for growth and development.
What you'll do
As a Finance Analyst - Order to Cash at Sainsbury's your primary responsibility will be to maximise the efficiency of retail takings reconciliation processes within Sainsbury's by providing critical analysis. You will support the offshore Finance team to ensure that all retail takings are accurately and timely reconciled. In this role, you will maintain relationships with external and internal stakeholders, including payment service providers, banks, cash handlers, and in-store colleagues. Your attention to detail, strong prioritisation skills, effective communication with stakeholders, and commitment to maintaining strong financial controls will be crucial in delivering outstanding results. Additionally, your knowledge of transaction processing, account reconciliation, balance sheet preparation and review, evaluation of effective controls, stakeholder management, and Excel proficiency will contribute to the success of the Order to Cash processes.
Who you are
As a Finance Analyst - Order to Cash for Sainsbury's, you are highly detail-oriented and analytical. Your ability to provide insightful analysis of retail takings and offer technical accounting support to the outsourced team is crucial in ensuring accurate and timely reconciliations. With your strong communication skills, you establish and maintain relationships with both external and internal stakeholders, including in-store colleagues, to facilitate understanding of financial processes. Your attention to detail, prioritisation skills, and commitment to maintaining strong financial controls enable you to deliver outstanding results. Your proficiency in transaction processing, account reconciliation, balance sheet preparation, stakeholder management, Excel, EFT processing, and accounting of physical cash contribute to your success in this role.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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).