Commercial Finance Manager - Technology

Job Description 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

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…