Finance Manager - Business Planning

Location: London Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Joining our Finance team at Sainsbury's offers the opportunity to be a vital part of transforming the way we operate in the dynamic retail industry. As a Finance Manager - Business Planning, you will play a crucial role in driving strategic decision-making, maximising cashflow, and ensuring business success through insightful financial analysis and reporting. With a focus on partnership, innovation, and continuous improvement, you will have the chance to make a significant impact and drive positive change in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

What you'll do

You will play a critical role in partnering with the Business Planning team to drive the Annual Plan process, ensuring alignment and clear communication across Finance for 'one-version-of-the-truth' reporting. You will lead the adoption of the Project Delivery Framework, utilising tools like Planview to draw insightful narratives from the Transformation portfolio, identifying risks, opportunities, and dependencies to support decision-making at key leadership boards. Your role will involve building and maintaining relationships across various stakeholders to drive consistent reporting, constructive challenge, and valuable insights, ultimately contributing to strategic decision-making and value protection within the business.

Who you are

You are a professionally qualified accountant with a strategic mindset and a keen eye for detail. With your strong analytical skills and ability to navigate complex and ambiguous environments, you excel in translating financial data into actionable insights to drive strategic decision-making and protect business value. Your resilience, relationship-building capabilities, and storytelling prowess enable you to collaborate effectively with stakeholders of varying backgrounds, ensuring alignment, consistency, and constructive challenge across transformation activities. Your autonomy, prioritisation skills, and problem-solving abilities make you a valuable asset in leading the annual planning process, promoting the adoption of project management tools, and driving continuous improvement within the Finance function.

Essential Criteria

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)
• Demonstrable experience using Excel and PowerPoint to analyse, interpret and present financial or business information
• Evidence of translating complex financial and business concepts into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for non-finance stakeholders
• Proven ability to build effective relationships and influence stakeholders across a range of seniority levels and commercial or financial backgrounds
• Demonstrable ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands, solve problems and deliver outcomes within changing or ambiguous environments
• Evidence of producing accurate, high-quality outputs with a high level of attention to detail

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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).