Financial Control Manager (6-Month FTC)
Midlothian, Scotland, gb
Why join us
Joining the Financial Control team at Sainsbury's Bank offers a unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative environment within the finance sector. As a Financial Control Manager, you will play a key role in delivering core finance operations support, implementing key projects, and driving systems change for Sainsbury's Bank and Argos Financial Services. With a focus on continuous improvement, risk management, and team development, you will have the chance to contribute to sustainable and robust financial processes while working alongside a dedicated team of professionals. This role provides a platform for qualified accountants with post-qualified experience to showcase their expertise, drive positive change, and make a tangible impact within a reputable financial services organisation.
What you'll do
As the Financial Control Manager at Sainsbury's Bank, you will lead a team in delivering end-to-end financial processes for products and services, ensuring balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation. You will drive changes to finance processes resulting from projects, focusing on robust requirement definition, risk and control assessments, testing, and implementation. Your responsibilities will include reviewing accounting processes and controls, designing and delivering improvement opportunities, managing actual issues or risk events within the team, acting as the primary point of contact for internal and external audits, and developing the accounting and control awareness knowledge of team members. Additionally, you will deputise for the Head of Financial Control and uphold the Colleague Conduct Rules specified by regulators.
Who you are
As a Financial Control Manager at Sainsbury's Bank, you are a qualified accountant with over three years of post-qualification experience, demonstrating a strong understanding of financial services control environments and end-to-end business processes. With your expertise in change management, risk management, and control design, you excel in managing a team to deliver efficient financial processes, implement key projects, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Your excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to collaborate with stakeholders enable you to ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and enhance financial operations for Sainsbury's Bank and Argos Financial Services.
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s Bank. “Bank by name, Sainsbury’s by nature” is the promise line we stand firmly behind, making sure we follow through on this by always offering value, making it easy and being an ally for our customers. 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. Because we know it’s by working together, and by bringing new, diverse ideas that creates the best experience for our customers and colleagues. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. 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.
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 30% 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, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
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).