Jobs, fresher vacancy - Supplier Payment Coordinator - 6-month FTC • UK

Company: Sainsbury's

UK

This is a 6-month Fixed Term Contract & hybrid role, you will be expected to attend quarterly Property Cascades in London, with the rest of your time working from home. Why join us Joining our team as a Supplier Payment Coordinator means becoming an integral part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team that values integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with FM contractors, finance teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure accurate and compliant payment processes, contributing to the overall success of our business. With a focus on data accuracy, stakeholder engagement, and proactive problem-solving, you will play a key role in driving operational excellence and efficiency. What you'll do You will validate and challenge invoices submitted by FM contractors, ensuring accurate payments in alignment with contractual agreements and periodic reporting. Your responsibilities will involve collaborating with suppliers, the FM team, and delivery managers to promptly resolve invoice queries, identifying and addressing supplier trends related to incorrect charges, and supporting amendments or changes to approved estimates and invoices within the wider FM team. Additionally, you will produce periodic reporting across various FM processes, maintain Argos contractual flat files, and review PAYG payments to suppliers to ensure accuracy and compliance with contractual terms, all while making informed decisions on approving or rejecting contractor PAYG invoices and issuing appropriate communication responses. Who you are You are a detail-oriented professional with a strong analytical mindset and excellent communication skills. With proficiency in Excel and data manipulation, along with a keen understanding of commercial activities and their downstream impact, you play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and alignment of supplier payments with contractual agreements. Your ability to engage stakeholders at all levels, balance competing priorities, and maintain integrity and confidentiality demonstrates your commitment to delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced and pressurised environment. Essential criteria: Understanding of FM / Commercial activity Proven ability to manipulate and analyse data using Excel Capability to organise and prioritise workload independently 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 5% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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).