Commercial Finance Manager

Location: London or Coventry Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Joining the Sainsbury's Technology Finance team as a Finance Manager offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of financial decision-making within a dynamic and innovative environment. As a key link between technology finance business partners and various stakeholders, you will play a crucial role in providing data-driven insights and strategic guidance to senior leadership, influencing key decisions and driving impactful outcomes. With a focus on continuous improvement, collaboration, and professional development, this role allows you to showcase your expertise, lead a talented team, and contribute to the success of a leading retail and technology company.

What you'll do

You will be accountable for leading the period end process for Technology P&L, ensuring accurate accounting treatment, robust cost governance, and timely management reporting. You will play a crucial role in the Corporate Plan, Budgeting, and Latest View cycles, providing clear articulation of risks, opportunities, and financial drivers across the P & L and the subsequent impacts from capital expenditure. Additionally, you will lead and develop the Technology Finance team, ensuring consistency in approach to tasks, setting the agenda, and prioritising key financial initiatives. Your role will involve delivering insightful ad hoc analysis across Technology P&L cost lines, partnering closely with technology leadership and central functions to support strategic and operational priorities, while continuously reviewing and enhancing reporting processes to drive efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting.

Who you are

You are a professionally qualified accountant with a proven track record of driving improved financial decision-making through high-quality analysis and insights. With your strong technical foundation and commercial acumen gained from working in large FMCG, Food, Retail, or Technology businesses, you excel in managing the period end process, budgeting cycles, and strategic financial reporting to senior stakeholders. Your ability to communicate effectively, interpret complex financial data, and lead a team of finance analysts showcases your structured approach to work, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering impactful financial outcomes.

Essential Criteria

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with demonstrable application of technical accounting knowledge in a commercial finance environment
• Proven experience partnering with stakeholders and influencing financial decision-making through the delivery of financial analysis, insight and recommendations
• Experience working in a large, complex FMCG, retail, food, technology or similarly scaled commercial organisation in a commercial finance or FP&A role
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including financial modelling, data analysis and presenting complex financial information to senior stakeholders
• Demonstrable experience leading, developing and managing finance analysts or finance teams, while maintaining effective financial controls and governance standards

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Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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).