Business Area: Finance

Position: Sales Finance Executive – 8 month FTC
Location: Gatwick

Salary £27,000, depending on experience and qualifications

Some of our other fantastic benefits 

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus 

• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle 

• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement 

• 2 paid volunteering days 

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working.

Here at Nestlé we have a fantastic opportunity for a focused individual to join the Finance team as a Sales Finance Executive to own and manage the Claims & Deductions End-To-End including post flight accruals management and resolving invalid claims. Working in collaboration with the Account Managers and Sales Controlling, you’ll be accountable to ensure that all claims and deductions are managed effectively and efficiently to hit KPIs with no risk to the P&L, pricing issues are resolved and root causes are identified and addressed and to provide clear action on all post flight trade accruals to ensure a smooth book close.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

Your impact

This opportunity will provide timely and accurate financial information to the sales teams, the key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring effective review & management of promotional deductions/claims, as well as effective management of trade accruals. This includes promotional reconciliation and aged accrual management.
• Responsible for accurate & compliant settlement of customer invoices and identifying root cause of an invalid deduction and/or price claims to drive right first time
• Leading the Book Close meetings with the Account Manager to ensure all post flight accruals, risks and opportunities are discussed and understood.

Your ingredients for success 

As the successful candidate you will be an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual, who has the initiative to provide insight into the overall customer number, to pro-actively identify any issues or risks and work collaboratively with Sales and Sales Controlling. Good communication skills are important to enable financial information to be understood across the team. A strong team player is essential as well as;

• Strong numerical and analytical competencies with a good attention to detail
• Having excellent systems knowledge including advanced Excel functionality (look-ups & pivot tables) and ideally possessing SAP experience

What you need to know

Advert posting date: 26/03/2026
Advert closing date: 09/04/2026

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.

To find out more about Nestle’s commitment to DEI: Nestlé's Commitment to a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace