Commercial Finance Analyst - Argos Services & Propositions in London

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

Why join us

Joining the Finance team as a Finance Analyst for Argos Services & Propositions presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to the strategic decision-making process and drive sales and profitability within a dynamic and diverse retail environment. Working closely with the Finance Manager and cross-functional teams, you will have the chance to showcase your analytical skills, develop robust financial models, and provide valuable insights that inform key business decisions. With a focus on continuous improvement and collaborative business partnering, this role offers a platform to enhance your commercial awareness, refine your communication skills, and make a meaningful impact on the company's financial performance.

What you'll do

You will play a crucial role in supporting the Finance Manager by providing robust analysis and developing business cases for various services and propositions within Argos, such as Argos Pay, Delivery Income, Gift Cards, and Supplier Direct Fulfilled (SDF). Your responsibilities will include business partnering with the Commercial team and project teams, producing and analysing management reporting and performance data, identifying risks and opportunities through analysis, and supporting forecasting and budgeting activities. Success in this role will require delivering timely and accurate analysis, translating data into valuable insights, and effectively communicating with finance and commercial stakeholders to drive informed decision-making and enhance sales and profitability within Argos.

Who you are

You are a qualified or part-qualified accountant with a strong commercial awareness and a keen interest in driving financial and commercial performance. You possess the ability to analyse and interpret data effectively to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, while also demonstrating proficiency in building and maintaining financial models. With your proactive approach to process improvement, clear communication skills, and curiosity to understand business drivers beyond the numbers, you excel in delivering timely and insightful analysis that informs decision-making and drives business success. Your self-motivation, eagerness to learn, and ability to build relationships across finance and commercial teams enable you to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, making you a valuable asset to the team.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with demonstrable commercial finance experience, ideally within FMCG/GM/Retail/Financial Services
• Proven ability to analyse and interpret financial and/or business data to identify trends, risks and opportunities that support decision-making
• Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining financial models to support financial analysis, forecasting or performance reporting
• Evidence of communicating financial insights and recommendations clearly to stakeholders, both verbally and in writing, to support understanding and decision-making
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver accurate outputs to deadlines within a changing business environment

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 10% 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.

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.