Finance Assistant - Supplier Funding (12M FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 23 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400053389
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.
Location: 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 Sainsbury's means becoming part of a vibrant and collaborative organisation that values innovation and excellence. As a Finance Assistant - Supplier Funding, you will play a crucial role in supporting our commercial trading teams, providing accurate reporting and insights to optimise margins and ensure compliance with funding agreements. With a focus on trust, collaboration, simplicity, and results, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact, develop your career, and contribute to the success of our dynamic and forward-thinking team.
What you'll do
You will play a crucial role in supporting the logging and collection of supplier income, ensuring accurate reporting and compliance with funding agreements. You will collaborate closely with commercial trading teams and the Argos buying function to develop best practises in supplier income accounting, while maintaining a strong focus on understanding the complexities of different funding sources and tools. Your responsibilities will include collating and logging funding on a daily basis, working proactively to ensure timely collection of funding deals, and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders through regular interactions and effective communication. Your keen organisational skills, analytical mindset, attention to detail, and ability to build strong relationships will be key in contributing to the company's financial success and cash flow management.
Who you are
You are a meticulous and detail-oriented professional with a strong analytical mindset and excellent organisational skills. Your ability to work closely with commercial trading teams and suppliers, providing accurate reporting and insights, showcases your capability to optimise margins and ensure compliance with funding agreements. With your proficiency in using Excel and your knack for building strong relationships with stakeholders, you contribute to the effective logging, collection, and accounting of supplier income, playing a crucial role in supporting the company's financial operations and cash flow management.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience accurately collating and logging financial or supplier-related transactions, ensuring data is recorded completely and to agreed deadlines
- Proven ability to use Microsoft Excel for data management and analysis
- Evidence of identifying, investigating, and resolving data discrepancies, showing attention to detail within financial or commercial information
- Demonstrable experience working with multiple stakeholders (e.g. commercial, buying, or finance teams) to support shared financial or operational outcomes
- Proven ability to manage and prioritise multiple tasks simultaneously, maintaining accuracy and meeting competing deadlines 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: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
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 5% 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).
