# Commercial Finance Manager - Technology

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to join our Technology Finance team at Sainsbury's. As a key link between technology finance business partners and various stakeholders, you will provide data-driven insights and strategic guidance to senior leadership, influencing key decisions and driving impactful outcomes.

The successful candidate 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.

The ideal candidate will be a professionally qualified accountant with a proven track record of driving improved financial decision-making through high-quality analysis and insights. You will have strong technical foundation and commercial acumen gained from working in large FMCG, Food, Retail, or Technology businesses.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the period end process for Technology P&L

- Provide clear articulation of risks, opportunities, and financial drivers across the P & L

- Lead and develop the Technology Finance team

- Deliver insightful ad hoc analysis across Technology P&L cost lines

- Partner closely with technology leadership and central functions

Essential criteria:

- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

- Proven experience partnering with stakeholders and influencing financial decision-making

- Experience working in a large, complex FMCG, retail, food, technology or similarly scaled commercial organisation

- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

- Demonstrable experience leading, developing and managing finance analysts or finance teams

Benefits:

- Colleague discount of 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat

- Increased to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance

- Season ticket loans

- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k

- Cycle to work scheme

- Health cash plans

- Pay advance

- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Private healthcare

- Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave

- Up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave

## Skills

### Required
- ACA
- ACCA
- CIMA
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- financial modelling
- data analysis

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