Commercial Finance Analyst – Supplier Funding in London

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits

Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type: Permanent

Business area: Finance & Transformation

Closing date: 02 August 2026

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.

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

Joining the Finance team at Argos offers the opportunity to play a pivotal role in managing and maximising supplier funding income for Argos. As a Commercial Finance Analyst, you will be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment where your analytical skills and financial acumen will contribute to driving performance, identifying opportunities, and supporting strategic decision-making. With a focus on data-led insights, process improvements, and strong commercial support, this role provides a platform for professional growth, continuous learning, and the chance to make a meaningful impact within a leading retail organisation.

What you’ll do:

• You will be responsible for providing accurate reporting, detailed analysis, and actionable insights to effectively manage Argos supplier funding.
• Your role will involve partnering with Buying and Finance teams to offer data-led insights that support decision-making and maximise supplier funding opportunities.
• You will support the regular reporting cycle, analyse supplier funding performance, contribute to budgeting and forecasting activities, and develop dashboards and reporting tools to enhance visibility and transparency.
• Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders, prepare clear analysis and recommendations, support system enhancements, maintain financial control, and utilise data-led insights to drive constructive conversations and better decision-making, ultimately contributing to the overall financial success and strategic direction of the organisation.

Who you are:

• You are a part-qualified or qualified accountant with a strong commercial acumen and advanced analytical mindset.
• Your ability to connect financial insights to commercial decisions, work with large and complex data sets, and translate information into actionable insights is crucial in supporting effective management of Argos supplier funding.
• With a focus on financial control, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to driving change and process improvement, you play a key role in providing accurate reporting, clear analysis, and valuable recommendations to senior Finance and Commercial stakeholders.
• Your resilience, adaptability, and strong ownership ensure that you can manage ambiguity, prioritise effectively, and deliver high-quality outputs while driving continuous improvement in supplier funding performance management.
• Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with commercial business partnering experience.
• Demonstrable experience using financial and commercial analysis to interpret business performance drivers.
• Proven ability to analyse large and complex datasets, generating clear, actionable insights to inform business outcomes.
• Evidence of maintaining financial controls, data accuracy and integrity, with a high level of attention to detail.
• Proven ability to influence and build effective relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders, including presenting complex financial information in a clear and accessible way.
• Evidence of implementing process improvement or new processes and reporting to improve insight and decision making.

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 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 up to an additional week's 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, 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 for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).