Commercial Finance Manager - Data & Analytics

Commercial Finance Manager - Data & Analytics

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 20 March 2025
Requisition ID: 288694

Please note, this role is based out of our Holborn Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.

The Commercial Finance Team plays a crucial role in both shaping and delivering the strategy at Sainsbury's. It's a highly competitive industry that never stands still, and Finance has a key role to play in driving, partnering, and protecting our business. Our focus is on maximising sales, profit, return on investment and cash flow alongside our non-financial objectives.

In support of this, Sainsbury's is embarking on a major transformation of every aspect of its Data strategy which will see significant investment in technology and people in the coming years. This role is responsible for providing best in class finance support to the Data & Analytics Leadership team.

More about the role

• This role has a strong stakeholder management element and will partner with the Directors across the D&A Leadership structure to support decision making. Financial rigour is at the heart of what you do, and you will provide the necessary challenge and excellence to ensure the robustness of your figures.
• Support the set up of a new end to end processes to manage data & analytics demand and spend across the organisation, including decision making on prioritisation of Data & Analytics activity through to understanding of effort and benefit delivered, and helping to prioritise business projects in line with ROI and strategic importance.
• Help to design visibility of financial and performance metrics, ensuring that it is fit for purpose and streamlined.
• Assist in the budgeting process for your area, and support the delivery of key Finance deliverables such as Corporate Plan, Year-End etc.
• Appraise work delivered, ensuring that value realised is integrated into forward financial forecasts.
• Support decisioning on accounting treatment of costs incurred, ensuring compliance with all relevant financial accounting standards.
• Complete ad hoc analysis and reporting for the Data & Analytics as required to drive improvement.
• Create an environment of support and challenge - being comfortable to question data-led decision making and rationale.
• Where applicable, deputise for the HO Finance to provide support to the wider D&A Leadership team.

More about you

• Qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA.
• Business Partnering experience of a Commercial Division at Finance Manager level.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills (pivot-tables, lookups, power pivots, macros).
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, both verbally and written.
• Strong commercial acumen with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance.
• Data led and comfortable scoping and completing complex analysis.
• Excellent levels of impact and influence.
• Ability to articulate finance for non-finance.
• Excellent forward planning and organisation skills.
• Strong networking and partnering skills.
• Ability to prioritise and respond accurately under pressure.
• A proven track record of financial control, but also the ability to develop and maintain such an environment.