Finance Analyst – Accounts Receivable

As Finance Analyst - Accounts Receivable, you will oversee billing and cash-collection performance, monitoring service delivery from Accenture and ensuring billing requests meet agreed accuracy and compliance standards. You will review routine billing and debt queries, resolve escalated issues and work with third-party collection agencies to support on-time collections.

Day to day, you will review and approve balance-sheet reconciliations, complete control self-assessments and assess supporting evidence. You will report on volumes, aged items, reconciliation performance, control exceptions and key risks, explaining the story behind the data. You will also support period-end journals and analysis, help develop offshore delivery, improve processes and partner technology teams on system changes affecting Accounts Receivable.

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

You will bring practical knowledge of debt collection, financial controls and balance-sheet reconciliations, with the numerical capability to work accurately across high-volume transactional information. You will be able to use Excel to analyse financial and operational data and present clear conclusions to Finance, operational and delivery-partner stakeholders.

You will communicate effectively, follow issues through to resolution and look for ways to make processes simpler, more efficient and better controlled. You will be studying towards ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or be able to demonstrate equivalent relevant Finance knowledge and experience. Experience in retail, Finance Operations, transactional Finance or Order to Cash would be useful but is not essential.

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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).