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A high-profile role with the Tech Finance team, your role will be to provide insight and analysis to tech team stakeholders, helping to influence and drive actions across both project and operating expenditure. You’ll work collaboratively with your tech partners to manage budgets, drive forecast accuracy, analyse performance and challenge decisions all whist focusing on value creation.
Sainsbury’s Tech is bringing digital, technology and data together like never before to create amazing systems and technologies across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat, this role will have an impact on anything from the way we run our stores to faster deliveries and innovative contactless check-out technology.
What you’ll be doing?
Supporting the Head of Finance and Finance Manager for Tech, success depends on delivering strong, accurate analysis, on time against financial targets. However, this is not a back office, number-crunching role - you will be judged on stakeholder feedback so it’s just as important that you can cultivate strong relationships with your colleagues in the tech team and work collaboratively to translate financial data into commercial insight.
Who you are?
This is one of the most forward-facing areas of the business you can partner with, with dramatic changes of pace. If you are excited by the speed and direction of technological progress, you will thrive here.
Beyond that, you are an ambitious professionally qualified or part qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA) with previous financial experience ideally within a complex organisation.
You have good financial acumen (in terms of P&L management and capitalisation principles of intangible asset) and excellent analytical skills.
You’ll need to be an effective finance partner demonstrating communicating, influencing and challenging skills including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen. You will also be self-motivated with the ability to prioritise and respond accurately under pressure
Previous experience working within a Tech, IT or Digital environment is advantageous but not essential.
How you can develop
We offer an environment where everyone can thrive – somewhere over 185,000 colleagues can become the best versions of themselves. To help you develop (and keep pace with the tech team) you’ll have access to CPD and on-the-job-training (both online and in person), plus continuous support from the Tech Finance Leadership team and the wider Sainsbury’s Finance teams. You’ll find plenty of future opportunities across the finance team – and you’ll have a FTSE-100 business on your CV.
What we’ll give you
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
Alongside a market-leading rate of pay, we also offer a great range of benefits for all our colleagues, including:
- Discounts of 10-15% on Sainsbury’s, Tu, Argos and Habitat products.
- Generous holiday entitlement, maternity and paternity leave.
- Pension – we’ll match 4-7% of your pension contributions.
- Sainsbury’s share scheme – build up an investment at discounted prices.
- Wellbeing support – access to emotional support, counselling, legal and financial advice.
- Colleague networks – link with like-minded people to help fulfil your potential.
- Cycle to Work scheme – hire a new bike and cycling equipment, whilst saving on tax and NI.
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
