Finance Manager - Grocery Trading

Sainsbury's is looking for a Finance Manager to join their Grocery Drinks team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will help shape the category's strategic direction, working in a fast-paced business focused on making customers' lives easier.

The Finance Manager will partner the Grocery Drinks Category, working closely with the Category Director and Heads of Buying to provide high-quality financial insight and constructive challenge to support better decisions, deliver targets, and drive transformation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing sound financial appraisals, including projects, tenders, and value-add workstreams
• Partnering with the Category Director and buyers on P&L delivery, category planning, forecasting, and working capital
• Conducting various analyses, including promotional strategies, trials, seasonal activity, and product profitability
• Advising on performance and communicating project progress and financial benefits
• Driving the budgeting process and providing training and tools to the Trading team
• Line managing and developing a Finance analyst

Measures of success include:

• Being a valued business partner to the Category
• Driving improved insights through high-quality analysis
• Delivering targets and process improvements
• Reducing time spent on manual reporting and forecasting
• Completing work to a high standard
• Actively engaging and developing contacts throughout the business

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), have advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, and proven ability to communicate complex financial information clearly.

In return, Sainsbury's offers a competitive salary, a range of benefits including a 10% colleague discount, pensions scheme, life cover, and private healthcare, as well as opportunities for personal and professional development.