Commercial Finance Manager- Commercial Programmes & Operations

Job Description

Please note, this role is based out of our London Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Joining the Commercial Finance team at Sainsbury's offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of driving financial performance and shaping the strategic direction of a leading retail company. As a Finance Manager for Commercial Programmes & Operations, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders, lead key initiatives, and play a pivotal role in delivering economic benefits across the business. With a focus on innovation, continuous learning, and impactful decision-making, this role provides a dynamic environment where your expertise and leadership can make a significant difference in enabling the company to achieve its strategic objectives and enhance customer experience.

What you'll do

You will play a pivotal role in leading the financial performance of key strategic programmes, collaborating closely with senior business partners to develop robust business cases that drive significant economic benefits across the retail profit and loss statement. You will provide best-in-class finance support, overseeing the implementation and measurement of the 3-year business strategy, and actively contribute to steering groups to ensure financial implications are fully understood, while managing stakeholder relationships and delivering executive summaries for business performance reviews and board meetings. Your role will involve strategic decision-making, financial reporting, and fostering effective communication with stakeholders, all aimed at driving financial success and supporting the business transformation journey.

Who you are

You are a qualified accountant with a proven track record of delivering financial leadership and driving strategic initiatives within a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Your advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, combined with your ability to effectively communicate with senior stakeholders and work independently, enable you to provide valuable financial support, shape business decisions, and drive transformational change. With your self-motivation, prioritisation skills, and comfortability with ambiguity, you play a key role in managing financial performance, developing business cases, and ensuring the successful implementation of strategic programmes to drive economic benefits and profitability across the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified accountant with a recognised certification - CIMA, ACCA, or ACA
• Demonstrable business partnering experience in Commercial Finance/FP&A, including stakeholder engagement
• Proven ability to develop business cases that support strategic decision-making
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including use of pivot tables, lookups, power pivots, and macros
• Effective communication skills with senior stakeholders, both verbal and written, with the ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance audiences

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Responsibilities

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.

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