Finance Manager - Group Control (12 Month FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Manchester Store Support Centre, Manchester, M4 3AL
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 25 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400011830
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 London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager in Group Control means becoming an integral part of a dynamic and forward-thinking finance team. With a focus on accuracy and compliance in fixed asset tech and lease accounting, you will have the opportunity to drive process enhancements and automation, influencing positive change across the business. Working closely with senior stakeholders and leveraging your expertise in IFRS standards, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy of financial reporting while contributing to the continuous improvement of controls and processes. At Sainsbury's, you will have the support and resources to excel in your role, access to technical guidance, and opportunities for professional development, making it a rewarding environment for ambitious finance professionals.
What you'll do
You will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of all fixed asset tech and lease accounting data and accounting recognition calculations. Your responsibilities will include implementing and managing a robust control framework, identifying strategic and operational risks, developing process enhancements and automation solutions, and providing technical support and advice on IFRS 16 and IAS 16 standards to stakeholders. You will work closely with internal and external teams to maintain control reliance in Qube Horizon, support lease reporting reconciliation, and ensure accurate presentation of financial information in periodic Group accounts and annual statutory accounts. Your role will involve influencing senior stakeholders, driving change initiatives, and making informed decisions in areas of complexity or ambiguity to uphold financial integrity and compliance. You will manage two direct reports, as well as indirectly managing two outsourced teams.
Who you are
You are a qualified accountant with a strong foundation in IFRS standards, particularly IFRS 16 and IAS 16, gained through a combination of practise and/or industry experience. Your excellent communication skills, stakeholder management abilities, and proficiency in Excel and Oracle enable you to lead the implementation and management of a robust control framework for fixed asset, tech, and lease accounting, ensuring accuracy and compliance while driving process enhancements and automation to optimise data accuracy and timeliness. With your forward planning, organisational skills, and commitment to driving change, you play a crucial role in influencing senior stakeholders, identifying strategic risks and opportunities, and providing technical support and advice to support the financial reporting process effectively.
Essential Criteria
- Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with demonstrable knowledge of IFRS 16 and IAS 16
- Proven experience in practice and/or industry, with a focus on fixed asset, lease, and technology accounting, or a desire to do so
- Demonstrable experience in direct line management and oversight of outsourced or third-party teams
- Demonstrable proficiency in using Excel and Oracle for financial reporting and data management. Able to handle complex data and manipulate it
- Experience producing technical accounting papers and providing technical advice to internal and external stakeholders on complex accounting issues
- Evidence of driving process improvements, including automation initiatives and implementation of financial control frameworks
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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).
