Sainsbury's

Finance Manager - Sainsbury's Own Brand

Recruiter
Sainsbury's
Location
London, Greater London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Benefits
Posted
15 Sep 2022
Closes
28 Sep 2022
Ref
22000731
Approved employers
Approved employer
Job role
Finance manager
Sector
Retail and FMCG
Experience level
Manager
Division/Dept.

Finance - Food Trading

Location

Holborn Store Support Centre

Reporting to

Head of Finance - Central Trading

In a nutshell

This role will proactively business partner with the Sainsbury's Own Brand and food commercial leadership teams, providing insightful analysis, challenge and influence to drive decisions and actions that improve the bottom line. The job holder will provide support and challenge, working cross-functionally with business Stakeholders to deliver Sainsbury's Own Brand and Future Brands performance analysis. The job holder will support in the tracking and delivery of financial benefits.

What you need to do
  • Act as key Finance Business Partner for the Sainsbury's Product and Innovation and Technical teams interpreting management reporting to provide insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders and providing challenge to the business
  • Lead the understanding and tracking of the Sainsbury's Own Brand elements of the Food First strategy as well as the impact on wider Gross Profit performance.
  • Develop cross-functional working relationships with Sainsbury's Product and Innovation and Technical teams, the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team, Investor Relations, Business Unit finance teams and Commercial Strategy
  • Support the business in identifying risks, anomalies and opportunities. Take the lead in prioritising these and work with the business to manage them
  • Support the business with understanding our compliance reporting and associated costs. Support our longer-term strategy to minimise our compliance expenditure and work to achieve our Net Zero targets.
  • Develop a robust budget and planning framework that sets realistic but challenging targets and deliver the key messages to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Ownership of Central Costs for Sainsbury's Own Brand, ensuring best in class reporting and variance analysis and to identify and facilitate initiatives to further develop understanding of budget make-up and subsequent performance
  • Attend regular department meetings ensuring Finance has a 'voice' and a 'seat at the table' where P&L impact meets department initiatives
  • Complete ad hoc / bespoke analysis and reporting for the business area as required to drive improvements
  • Support the design of management reporting, ensuring it is fit for purpose, streamlined and aligns to that prepared for the other commercial areas
  • Work with our Finance Transformation and data team to ensure analytical resource is used effectively and business priorities and resource allocation are well understood and aligned
  • Stepping up to cover the Head of Finance where needed
  • Supporting several ad hoc projects and various teams as required during busy times such as Budget, Corporate Plan etc.
What you need to know and show
  • Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
  • Strong commercial acumen with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
  • An ability to inspire and a desire to support colleagues with their development
  • Strong Excel and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight
  • A self-starter, and a strong team player that can work independently, spotting the areas to focus on and assisting in the decision-making process
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and a bility to present complex information in a simplified manner
  • Proven history of effective prioritisation and ability to push back when appropriate
  • Committed to driving change and comfortable with managing any associated conflicts
What decisions can I make
  • Prioritisation of deliverables in line with stakeholder expectations
  • Day to day management 2 x C4 Finance Analyst's workload
  • Help to prioritise business projects in line with ROI and strategic importance
Directly or indirectly manages

Indirect management of two C4 Central Trading Finance Analyst's

Support we will provide
  • Appropriate ad hoc support from Head of Finance as well as the wider Food Trading Finance Leadership team.
  • Access to CPD and on the job training
  • Training both on the Job and via Sainsbury's L&D offer including; face to face sessions and online resources.
    Division/Dept.

    Finance - Food Trading

    Location

    Holborn Store Support Centre

    Reporting to

    Head of Finance - Central Trading

    In a nutshell

    This role will proactively business partner with the Sainsbury's Own Brand and food commercial leadership teams, providing insightful analysis, challenge and influence to drive decisions and actions that improve the bottom line. The job holder will provide support and challenge, working cross-functionally with business Stakeholders to deliver Sainsbury's Own Brand and Future Brands performance analysis. The job holder will support in the tracking and delivery of financial benefits.

    What you need to do
  • Act as key Finance Business Partner for the Sainsbury's Product and Innovation and Technical teams interpreting management reporting to provide insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders and providing challenge to the business
  • Lead the understanding and tracking of the Sainsbury's Own Brand elements of the Food First strategy as well as the impact on wider Gross Profit performance.
  • Develop cross-functional working relationships with Sainsbury's Product and Innovation and Technical teams, the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability team, Investor Relations, Business Unit finance teams and Commercial Strategy
  • Support the business in identifying risks, anomalies and opportunities. Take the lead in prioritising these and work with the business to manage them
  • Support the business with understanding our compliance reporting and associated costs. Support our longer-term strategy to minimise our compliance expenditure and work to achieve our Net Zero targets.
  • Develop a robust budget and planning framework that sets realistic but challenging targets and deliver the key messages to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Ownership of Central Costs for Sainsbury's Own Brand, ensuring best in class reporting and variance analysis and to identify and facilitate initiatives to further develop understanding of budget make-up and subsequent performance
  • Attend regular department meetings ensuring Finance has a 'voice' and a 'seat at the table' where P&L impact meets department initiatives
  • Complete ad hoc / bespoke analysis and reporting for the business area as required to drive improvements
  • Support the design of management reporting, ensuring it is fit for purpose, streamlined and aligns to that prepared for the other commercial areas
  • Work with our Finance Transformation and data team to ensure analytical resource is used effectively and business priorities and resource allocation are well understood and aligned
  • Stepping up to cover the Head of Finance where needed
  • Supporting several ad hoc projects and various teams as required during busy times such as Budget, Corporate Plan etc.
  • What you need to know and show
  • Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/ACA)
  • Strong commercial acumen with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
  • An ability to inspire and a desire to support colleagues with their development
  • Strong Excel and numerical skills, with an aptitude for turning data into analysis and insight
  • A self-starter, and a strong team player that can work independently, spotting the areas to focus on and assisting in the decision-making process
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and a bility to present complex information in a simplified manner
  • Proven history of effective prioritisation and ability to push back when appropriate
  • Committed to driving change and comfortable with managing any associated conflicts
  • What decisions can I make
  • Prioritisation of deliverables in line with stakeholder expectations
  • Day to day management 2 x C4 Finance Analyst's workload
  • Help to prioritise business projects in line with ROI and strategic importance
  • Directly or indirectly manages

    Indirect management of two C4 Central Trading Finance Analyst's

    Support we will provide
  • Appropriate ad hoc support from Head of Finance as well as the wider Food Trading Finance Leadership team.
  • Access to CPD and on the job training
  • Training both on the Job and via Sainsbury's L&D offer including; face to face sessions and online resources.
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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