Assistant Finance Manager - Financial Control (6-Month FTC)

Job description

Sainsburys Bank - Assistant Finance Manager - Financial Control

Why join us

Joining us as an Assistant Manager, Financial Control at Sainsbury's Bank means becoming an integral member of our Finance team, with the opportunity to work closely with multiple stakeholders across the business. In this role, you will take charge of managing the financial close process for specific products and services, ensuring balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation controls are in place. With the chance to contribute to the Bank's management reports, financial statements, and regulatory returns, you'll have the platform to showcase your accounting expertise. We offer a supportive environment where you can develop professionally, enjoy flexible working options, and be part of a company that values diversity, inclusion, and work-life balance. Join us and be part of driving innovation and customer-centricity in the banking industry.

What you'll do

As an Assistant Manager, Financial Control, your main focus will be on managing the financial close process for specific products and services, including balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation controls. This will involve overseeing daily interfaces from outsourced providers' systems to the Sainsbury's Bank General Ledger, preparing journals, conducting balance sheet substantiation, and implementing reconciliation controls. You will also support the preparation of monthly management reports, contribute to the design and implementation of financial processes and controls, assist in the preparation of the Bank's IFRS financial statements, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. In addition, you will collaborate with the team to identify and implement process improvements, driving efficiency within the Financial Control function. Your strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to work under pressure while maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders will be essential to achieving success in this role.

Who you are

You are a highly skilled and detail-oriented finance professional. With your experience in finance operations, reporting, and control, you play a vital role in managing the financial close process for specific products and services, ensuring accurate balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation controls. Equipped with strong numerical and analytical skills, you contribute to the preparation of management reports and financial statements, as well as regulatory and statistical returns. Your proficiency in financial systems, such as Oracle General Ledger, combined with your ability to design and implement effective financial processes and controls, helps drive efficiency and support business change initiatives. With your excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset, you work closely with stakeholders across the bank to deliver high-quality results, all while maintaining a keen eye for detail and meeting tight deadlines.

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 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 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).