Finance Manager - Reconciliations (6M FTC)

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager - Reconciliations in the Commercial Transformation team offers a unique opportunity to play a key role in the accurate transfer of data into our new Commercial Platform (SAP), ensuring data integrity and reconciliation between systems. You will work closely with a dedicated team and external partners on a major transformation project, providing the chance to enhance your reconciliation skills, problem-solving capabilities, and stakeholder communication in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

With support from regular 1-1's, training on SAP S/4 Hana, and access to a wide range of personal development tools, you will have the opportunity to contribute to one of the UK's largest transformation programmes and grow your skills while enjoying the benefits of flexible working arrangements and a market-leading learning and development offering.

What you'll do

Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the accurate transfer of data into the new Commercial Platform (SAP) by focusing on reconciling data between existing systems and SAP to achieve 100% data transfer accuracy. You will conduct daily reconciliations of sales data, investigate any discrepancies to ensure the robustness of sales data in SAP, and collaborate with SI partners to develop and enhance the reconciliation process.

Additionally, you will establish and enhance controls, address any identified gaps, and ensure the completeness and accuracy of historic data loads as additional categories are migrated into SAP. Your strong reconciliation skills, problem-solving capabilities, and effective communication with stakeholders of varying financial and technical backgrounds will be crucial to the success of this role.

Who you are

You are a detail-oriented professional with a proven track record in ensuring data accuracy and integrity, particularly in the transfer of data to SAP within a complex commercial environment. Your strong reconciliation skills, ability to investigate and resolve discrepancies, and proficiency in Excel for data manipulation make you adept at analysing and clarifying sales data to drive informed decision-making. With effective communication skills, problem-solving capabilities, and a self-motivated team player mindset, you excel in collaborating with stakeholders of varying backgrounds and driving process improvements to enhance data controls and accuracy.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable experience of performing complex reconciliations, including identifying, investigating and resolving discrepancies
• Proven ability to analyse large volumes of data using Excel, including data manipulation, interrogation and validation
• Evidence of communicating financial information clearly in both written and verbal formats, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven capability to influence, challenge and engage stakeholders with varying levels of financial and technical knowledge
• Demonstrable ability to identify issues, evaluate solutions and work independently while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Here, everything in our stores starts in Sainsbury’s Commercial. From product, proposition, packaging and price, to whether it meets our sustainability commitments or simply tastes great, our team is responsible for, all food, non- food and Clothing items available in Sainsbury’s stores, online and on demand. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment. People here are in it together and aren’t afraid to take risks. The knowledge and experience you gain here could set you up for career moves anywhere else in the business. So, if you’re passionate about your products and just as hungry to learn, you’ll fit in perfectly.

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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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).