Finance Manager O2C - Argos

Why join us

Joining Argos as the Finance Manager – Order to Cash/Sales to Settlement offers a unique opportunity to drive process and control excellence in sales-to-settlement activities, ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting. As a key player in overseeing outsourced services, collaborating with various departments, and driving continuous improvement initiatives, you will have a significant impact on safeguarding financial accuracy and enhancing operational efficiency.

By joining our team, you will be part of a dynamic environment that values collaboration, innovation, and professional growth, empowering you to make a tangible difference in shaping the financial landscape of a leading retail organisation.

What you'll do

You will be responsible for ensuring process and control excellence across sales-to-settlement activities, overseeing the integrity of processes connecting sales, takings, and financial reporting. You will interact with multiple stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Retail Operations, and more to resolve issues, improve compliance, and drive changes that safeguard the accuracy and completeness of financial information. Your role will involve monitoring outsourced services, addressing compliance issues, managing controls, resolving queries and disputes, coordinating audits, supporting financial plans, and driving process improvements in collaboration with key stakeholders.

Who you are

You are a seasoned finance professional with a strong background in finance operations, accounting controls, and risk management within high-volume transactional processes. Your expertise in overseeing outsourced services, resolving complex queries, and driving continuous improvement enables you to ensure process and control excellence across sales-to-settlement activities. With clear communication skills and the ability to build effective partnerships, you collaborate with key stakeholders to deliver improvements, enhance compliance, and protect the accuracy of financial information.

Your strategic mindset, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering results make you a valuable asset in driving operational efficiency and financial integrity within the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with demonstrable O2C experience, ideally within retail/FMCG
• Demonstrable experience in finance operations, accounting controls and risk management within high-volume transactional environments
• Proven experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers, using performance measures and service data to drive service improvements
• Evidence of assessing operational or control issues, making risk-based decisions and resolving complex or escalated queries
• Ability to communicate business requirements effectively and translate them into process, control or technology improvements
• Track record of delivering process, control or compliance improvements through collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners

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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).