Finance Manager - Cash Control (6 Month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre and Home, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 21 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400005617
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.
Please note, this role can be based out of our Manchester, Holborn or Coventry Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1 day per week on average.
As a member of the Finance Operations Leadership team, you will manage activity to continually develop the offshore cash team, ensuring alignment to defined ways of operating and the wider business to deliver the success of the outsourced model. You'll deliver value through proactive relationship management across a number of internal teams, with the aim to ensure effective process operations and governance, managing risk and taking actions to sustain strong performance aligned to specific measures of success.
More about the role
- Lead, manage, motivate, develop and continually improve the cash team, ensuring close alignment to defined ways of operating and the wider business to drive success of the outsourced model
- Indirectly lead and motivate the offshore team of c.7 to deliver required outputs
- Ensure effective process operations and governance through management and approval of:
- Performance measures and service delivery from Accenture
- Process compliance levels from Sainsburys
- Resource plans creation for approval
- Process changes, driven either internally or by Accenture
- Drive process efficiency improvements, compliance improvements and stakeholder training, working with Accenture to prioritise and deliver change
- Financial Plans Forecasts or Budgets
- Connect with key stakeholders to translate business strategy impacting cash processes into clear requests for change
- Ensure process control design and operation is effective through oversight and approval of:
- Balance sheet reconciliations and associated accounting entries
- Control self-assessment and review of evidence
- Cash transactions within delegated authority limits
- Ensure effective internal and external audit processes confirming requirements in advance to Accenture and monitor deliverables to ensure completion within agreed timescales
- Partner with Sainsbury’s Tech to ensure new systems or system changes maintains the integrity of our reconciliations
- Support the business in monitoring and identifying risks and opportunities. Take the lead in prioritising these and work with the business to manage them
- Own the design of management reporting, ensuring it is fit for purpose and streamlined
More about you
- Professionally Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or Qualified By Experience is essential
- Experience of maintaining strong financial controls; good awareness of balance sheet controls and reconciliation processes is essential
- Forecasting and financial modelling experience is essential
- Strong commercial acumen with a clear focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
- Effective communicator and challenger with stakeholders up to and including Divisional Director level, including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen
- Committed to driving change and comfortable with managing any associated conflicts
- Ability to influence third party resources; knowledge and technique into how to deliver business value through a third party and outsourced operations
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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: 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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
