# Finance Manager - Grocery Trading

**Company**: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
**Location**: London, London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
- Advanced Excel
- PowerPoint
- Financial analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Budgeting
- Forecasting

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