Commercial Finance Manager - Digital Transformation

You will serve as a trusted Finance Business Partner to the Digital and Transformation leadership team, offering commercial insights and actionable recommendations to drive top-line growth, improve profitability, support cost-saving targets, and manage risks and opportunities within the Groceries Online and Food on Demand propositions. You will collaborate across various departments to deliver strategic and financial plans, develop robust business cases for investment opportunities, drive accurate forecasting and planning processes, identify and manage risks and opportunities, and translate complex data into clear insights to enhance performance and decision-making. Additionally, you will support the Digital transformation agenda, partner with procurement teams, cover for the Head of Finance when necessary, and contribute to ad hoc projects as needed, all while maintaining strong financial controls and prioritising deliverables in alignment with corporate expectations.

You are a professionally qualified accountant with a proven track record of driving financial performance and providing strategic insights, ideally within the Retail industry. With your strong commercial acumen, excellent communication skills, and ability to build robust investment cases, you play a key role in shaping the financial success of Sainsbury's Digital business. Your data-curious mindset, resilience, and proactive approach allow you to navigate complex data, influence decision-making, and drive sustainable growth while maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring accuracy in financial planning and forecasting.,

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Demonstrable commercial finance experience, including applying financial insight to influence business decisions and support financial performance
• Proven experience building and evaluating investment and business cases, including financial modelling, appraisal and recommendations
• Demonstrable ability to maintain effective financial controls, ensuring accuracy, compliance and robust governance
• Evidence of analysing and interpreting data to generate insights, including communicating findings clearly to senior stakeholders, with experience using analytics or visualisation tools where applicable
  
  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.