Commercial Finance Manager

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.

Finance is at the heart of our decision making and we would love you to join our Finance team and make a difference to our organisation.

We have a breadth of commercial Finance opportunities, whether it is supporting our 600+ supermarket estate, 800+ Convenience estate, 1000+ Argos locations or our Online business we are passionate about our Finance colleagues being a business co-pilot to the divisions that they support.

We work at pace to generate insight and ensure decisions are supported by data, a finance mission that spans across all of our roles, whether this be in our trading finance teams, strategy finance teams or analysing investment appraisals.

We stand behind our commitments in our sustainability plan and in finance we play a key role supporting our ‘plan for better’ initiatives, reviewing business cases and ensuring we control our spend in the areas that will make the biggest difference. Our priority is to deliver improved returns across all of our brands within the business, Nectar, Argos, TU and Habitat to name a few.

We have a breadth of exciting projects for you to get involved in, from Supply Chain and Logistics Finance, Marketing Finance, Tech Finance, New business Finance, the opportunities are endless.

It is our people that make a difference which is why work-life balance is important to us. We offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Most importantly we want you to be your true self, we are passionate about diversity and inclusion and ensuring you bring the best version of yourself to Sainsburys.

To make a difference you will be an effective communicator, influencer and challenger with senior stakeholders including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen.

You will be comfortable working with ambiguity and comfortable with change, working at pace to deliver outcomes.

You will build solid relationships with stakeholders at all levels and lead by example, supporting peers, coaching others to do the best for the brand and the finance community.

You will be proactively curious, ask the right questions and drive insight to support business decisions presenting information in a simplified manner.

You will have a strong eye for detail and a passion for accuracy, be highly numerate and a proven history of effective prioritisation with the ability to push back where appropriate.

A professional Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) is important to us so you can hit the ground running to help meet our objectives and goals.

If this excites you and you have the skills, we are looking for then we would love to hear from you. Our recruitment team will review your experience and skills and will be in touch to get to know you better and arrange for you to meet our Head of Finance team. We will discuss your experience and your motivations through a competency-based assessment and look for suitable opportunities in the Finance Division where you can thrive and be part of something special.

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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 heathcare. 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 eligibiity criteria may apply).