Executive Assistant to Chief Financial Officer

Sainsbury's • Full-time • London, England, United Kingdom • 1d ago

Executive Assistant to Chief Financial Officer

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Executives
Closing date: 20 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400051963

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives 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 sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the organisation's financial and strategic operations. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in enabling the CFO to drive impactful decision-making and exceptional financial stewardship while working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. By providing high-quality administrative and strategic support, you will be instrumental in enabling the performance of the Finance Leadership Team and contribute to the overall success of a leading FTSE 100 company.

What you'll do

In the role of Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer at Sainsbury's, you will be instrumental in supporting the CFO in driving strategic decision-making and exceptional financial stewardship across the business. By providing high-quality administrative, organisational, and strategic support, you will facilitate the CFO's focus on high-value priorities such as financial planning, investor relations, corporate governance, and risk management. Your role will involve coordinating governance forums, preparing financial presentations for key meetings and events, influencing outcomes aligned with the finance strategy, and maintaining the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality in handling sensitive information. Additionally, you will lead or support key projects, manage events and awaydays, and act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, investors, and external stakeholders, ensuring a professional and welcoming experience.

Who you are

As the Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer at Sainsbury's, you are an experienced professional with a strong background in finance, corporate governance, and regulatory reporting, ideally within a complex and fast-paced organisation. Your exceptional judgement, integrity, and professionalism enable you to handle sensitive information with discretion while engaging confidently with senior leaders and external stakeholders. With outstanding organisational and communication skills, you excel in providing high-quality administrative and strategic support, ensuring the CFO is fully prepared to drive strategic decision-making and financial stewardship across the business. Your ability to work independently, prioritise effectively, and manage multiple priorities at pace makes you a key partner in facilitating the CFO's operational efficiency and success.

Essential Criteria

Significant experience supporting C-suite or equivalent senior executives within a complex, highly regulated organisation (e.g. listed company, financial services, large corporate). This role supports our Group CFO and requires confidence operating at senior executive and governance level.

Demonstrated experience producing governance standard materials, including Board and Committee papers, investor or analyst presentations, financial decks and senior briefing packs. Applicants should be able to evidence ownership of high-quality, executive-ready outputs.

Advanced Microsoft Office 365 capability, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook, with a proven ability to deliver accurate, polished materials at pace. This role is heavily document-led and requires exceptional attention to detail.

Proven experience managing complex diaries, inboxes and workflows for senior executives, coordinating multiple stakeholders across functions, locations and time zones. Candidates should be comfortable operating in fastmoving, high-volume environments.

A strong track record of handling highly confidential and market-sensitive information with discretion, integrity and sound judgement. This is essential due to exposure to financial results, investor relations activity, audit and risk matters.

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