Finance Manager P2P - Argos in London

Joining our team at Argos as a Finance Manager - P2P means becoming a crucial player in ensuring process and control excellence throughout the end-to-end purchase to pay cycle. Through overseeing outsourced service delivery, governance, and financial controls, you will have the opportunity to drive accurate and efficient transaction processing while upholding high standards of compliance. Collaborating with diverse teams and utilising your strong understanding of purchase to pay operations, this role offers a platform for continuous improvement, strategic decision-making, and impactful contributions to our organisation's financial operations.

Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home - colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

What You'll Do

• You will be accountable for ensuring process and control excellence throughout the purchase to pay cycle, overseeing supplier master data, invoicing, expense processing, payments, reconciliations, and payroll.
• You will monitor outsourced service delivery, governance, and financial controls to ensure accurate and efficient processing of transactions in adherence to agreed standards.
• Your responsibilities will include managing compliance, resolving queries or disputes, driving process and control improvements, coordinating audit requirements, and supporting the development of financial plans and budgets.
• By collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, you will play a critical role in enhancing operational efficiency, risk management, and financial performance within the organisation.

Who You Are

• You are a seasoned professional with a strong background in end-to-end purchase to pay operations, accounting controls, and managing outsourced service delivery.
• Your ability to assess issues, make informed decisions, and drive process improvements while ensuring financial controls and compliance are paramount.
• Your clear communication skills, collaborative approach, and continuous improvement mindset enable you to build effective partnerships across various teams and deliver exceptional results in a dynamic and high-volume transactional environment.

Essential Criteria

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA).
• Demonstrable experience managing or overseeing end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) operations, including accounting controls and risk management within high-volume transactional environments - ideally retail/FMCG.
• Proven experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers, using service performance measures and operational insight to drive improvements in delivery and outcomes.
• Ability to assess risks, make evidence-based decisions and resolve complex operational or process issues, including escalated queries.
• Demonstrable experience implementing process, control or technology improvements that enhance compliance, operational efficiency or customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you here at Sainsbury's. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we're not leading projects, we're supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving 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 scale and complexity of our business mean there's always something new to learn, and we'll support you every step of the way. We're trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Qualifications

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.