Job Description
This role is flexible on location and can be base out of our London, Coventry or Manchester SSC.
About the Team
You will join the Financial Operations function, supporting the Argos business through a significant period of finance transformation. The team plays a critical role in shaping how finance supports commercial propositions, technology change and regulatory compliance, working closely with Technology, Product and Commercial colleagues. This is a high-profile environment where finance expertise directly influences how new systems and ways of working are designed, implemented and embedded across the organisation.
Role Overview
This role leads the delivery of finance workstreams across major transformation initiatives, focusing on the Order to Cash lifecycle. With solution design largely agreed, your day-to‑day will centre on overseeing build activity, supporting testing phases, managing cut‑over and go‑live, and ensuring effective stabilisation post‑implementation. You will act as the primary finance interface for technology and change teams, ensuring accounting, control and regulatory requirements are fully embedded within new systems and processes.
You can expect to work on complex, cross‑functional projects, designing future‑state finance processes, documenting controls and accounting treatments, and identifying risks early. A key part of the role is supporting the transition into business‑as‑usual, making sure finance teams are operationally ready and confident to run new processes once projects go live.
About you
You will bring demonstrable experience working across finance, technology and wider business teams, with the ability to operate confidently in complex change environments. You are comfortable partnering with senior stakeholders and able to influence, challenge, and provide clear financial insight to support decision‑making.
You are pragmatic and solutions‑focused, with the ability to translate technical finance and accounting requirements into clear, workable processes for non‑finance colleagues. You are experienced in identifying financial and operational risks, articulating options, and supporting proportionate mitigation while maintaining alignment with group policy and regulatory standards.
Essential criteria
* Experience working in cross‑functional environments across Finance, Technology and wider business teams.
* Experience managing stakeholder relationships across multiple levels, including senior stakeholders.
* Ability to translate finance and accounting information for non‑finance colleagues in a clear and pragmatic way.
Desirable
* Previous experience within finance operations.
* Understanding sales and takings posting and related finance processes.
* Experience delivering projects or workstreams within a change or transformation environment.
Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whatever 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.
* 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks; increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
* Pensions scheme and life cover.
* Performance‑related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on performance.
* Annual holiday allowance; ability to buy additional holiday.
* Season ticket loans.
* Interest‑free car loan up to £10k.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Health cash plans.
* Pay advance before pay day.
* Access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
* Employee Assistance Programme.
* Private healthcare.
* Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave.
* 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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