Assistant Finance Manager - Financial Control (6-Month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Sainsburys Bank Lochside and Home, Edinburgh, EH12 9DJ
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Sainsbury's Bank
Closing date: 27 January 2025
Requisition ID: 278465
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s Bank. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.
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. You will contribute to the Bank's management reports, financial statements, and regulatory returns, showcasing your accounting expertise.
What you'll do
1. Manage the financial close process for specific products and services, including balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation controls.
2. Oversee daily interfaces from outsourced providers' systems to the Sainsbury's Bank General Ledger.
3. Prepare journals and conduct balance sheet substantiation.
4. Implement reconciliation controls.
5. Support the preparation of monthly management reports.
6. Contribute to the design and implementation of financial processes and controls.
7. Assist in the preparation of the Bank's IFRS financial statements.
8. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
9. Collaborate with the team to identify and implement process improvements.
Who you are
You are a highly skilled and detail-oriented finance professional with experience in finance operations, reporting, and control. 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.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. We take development seriously and promise to support you. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits, including colleague discounts, pensions scheme, life cover, and a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary.
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