Commercial Finance - Analytics & BI Developer

This is an opportunity to join a newly formed Trading Performance & Analysis team within Commercial Finance. We sit where commercial decision-making meets data, working alongside Trading Finance leaders, the central Finance BI and reporting team, Retail and Supply Chain analytics colleagues, and central data engineering. Our aim is to create trusted, scalable analytics that help colleagues understand performance, make better decisions and spend less time on manual reporting.

You will take hands-on ownership of the analytics and business intelligence products used by Trading and Commercial Finance. Day-to-day, you will work directly with Finance stakeholders to understand the rationale behind a request, translate that need into a practical technical solution, and deliver it from design through to release and ongoing support. A key focus will be building and maintaining Power BI semantic models and the reporting estate that sits on them, using SQL, DAX and appropriate data preparation tools.

You will also identify opportunities to automate time-consuming processes, prepare and transform data where local supplementation is needed, and ensure your solutions are documented, tested and reconciled to certified measures. Working with central BI, engineering and platform teams, you will help set development standards across the team and champion quality and control, ensuring both your own work and the wider team’s outputs comply with internal control and digital control frameworks. You will also work alongside partner resources and deputise for the Head of Trading Performance & Analysis on analytics and technical matters when required. The role also offers scope to build experience with Alteryx, workflow automation, AI-assisted development, machine learning and other emerging tools used within Finance.

You combine practical BI development capability with an understanding of Finance data and terminology. You can move confidently between a commercial question and the technical work needed to answer it, explaining complex ideas clearly to non-technical colleagues and recognising when data or a result does not look right. A Finance qualification may be useful, but it is not required where you can demonstrate equivalent experience working with Finance teams and data.

You are comfortable taking accountability for work from initial requirements through to delivery and support, prioritising effectively without close supervision. You bring curiosity about the business problem, apply structured development and control practices, and can constructively challenge stakeholders or technical designs when needed. Experience in retail, FMCG or another commercial environment would be helpful, particularly where you have worked with measures such as sales, margin, promotions, markdown, stock or supplier income.

• Practical experience working within Commercial Finance data and terminology, with examples of translating commercial or financial questions into analytical outputs.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end development, including stakeholder requirements, testing, documentation, version control or controlled release, and ongoing support.
• Demonstrable experience using SQL and a cloud data warehouse to source, query and validate data for reporting or analytics.
• Proven hands-on experience designing and building Power BI semantic models from scratch, including star-schema design and DAX, and delivering reporting solutions through to production release

• Evidence of preparing or transforming data using an ETL or data-preparation tool such as Alteryx, Power Query, dbt or an equivalent platform.

   

• Part-qualified or qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)
• Experience of Git-based version control, ideally using GitHub, including branching and pull requests, would be advantageous, with support available to develop these skills.

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.

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 20% 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, and we provide private healthcare. 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, 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).