Finance Manager – Commercial Programmes & Operations (Capital)

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

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as the Finance Manager for Commercial Programmes & Operations (Capital) presents a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in driving financial planning, performance tracking, and capital governance within a leading retail organisation. As a key partner to senior stakeholders across the business, you will have the chance to influence strategic decision-making, shape investment priorities, and drive value creation through robust financial analysis and insights. With a strong emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, this role offers a dynamic and supportive environment where your expertise in financial management and business partnering can make a significant impact on the organisation's growth and success.

What you'll do

You will play a pivotal role in supporting the Commercial function through rigorous financial planning, performance tracking, and capital governance. Your responsibilities will include leading the monthly reporting of Commercial capital and opex, providing insightful analysis and commentary to senior stakeholders, and partnering with cross-functional teams to influence decision-making and ensure effective financial control. You will also be involved in business case development, investment appraisal, planning and budgeting, and capital governance, continuously seeking to drive value creation, optimise cost performance, and ensure disciplined capital allocation across the organisation. Additionally, you will prepare high-quality financial inputs for key governance forums and act as a subject matter expert in Commercial capital governance, contributing to the strategic decision-making processes at Sainsbury's.

Who you are

You are a qualified accountant with a strong background in financial planning and analysis, particularly in capital investment appraisal. Your expertise in building and evaluating business cases, forecasting financial performance, and managing capital governance underscores your ability to drive value creation and strategic decision-making within a dynamic and complex commercial environment. With your strong stakeholder management skills, financial acumen, and advanced analytical capabilities, you play a pivotal role in shaping investment decisions, ensuring financial control, and driving efficiency across the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent recognised accounting qualification)
• Demonstrable experience in FP&A and capital investment appraisal, including building business cases and assessing investment returns using financial evaluation methods such as NPV, IRR and payback
• Proven ability to apply financial analysis across P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow statements, with evidence of evaluating the financial impact of business decisions and investments
• Experience leading or supporting financial planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting and corporate planning within a commercial or operational environment
• Demonstrated capability to partner with senior stakeholders and communicate complex financial information clearly, supported by advanced Excel and financial modelling skills to inform decision-making

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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.

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).