Finance Manager - Grocery Food
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 30 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400047475
Location – Hybrid, London Head Office (office-based approximately 2-3 days per week, flexible on days)
About the team
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager for Grocery Food means being part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team dedicated to shaping the business's strategic direction. You will collaborate with stakeholders across the Grocery Food division, providing best-in-class financial support to drive decisions and challenge the status quo. This team thrives in a fast-paced retail environment where commercial impact, transformation and continuous improvement sit at the heart of everything we do.
More about the role
In this role, you will partner closely with the Category Director, Heads of Buying, and the buying team, delivering analysis that supports category planning and informs key commercial decisions. You will evaluate promotional strategies, seasonal activity, profitability, and investment appraisals to support performance delivery and financial rigour.
You will also contribute to increasing commercial awareness through financial insight and to ensuring compliance with accounting standards. Your work will enable improved insight generation, streamline reporting, and support the team in meeting financial and strategic targets. With a focus on challenging the status quo, driving transformation, and delivering impactful results, this role offers a platform for personal growth and professional development in a fast-paced and competitive industry.
Additionally, you will have line management responsibility of a Finance analyst to provide reporting, analysis, and insights for the Grocery Food category, whilst supporting their growth and development.
More about you
You are a qualified accountant with experience in delivering high-quality financial analysis and commercial insight to support business decision-making. You bring strong Excel and PowerPoint capabilities, enabling you to streamline reporting and provide clear, actionable outputs. You are comfortable working independently, building strong partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups, and influencing decisions at all levels. You bring curiosity, analytical strength, and the ability to translate financial information for both finance and non-finance colleagues. Finally, you bring leadership qualities aligned with our Leadership Performance Expectations (LPEs) and our Valued Behaviours to promote the professional development of others and successful outcomes within their roles.
Essential criteria
- Recognised accounting qualification - CIMA, ACCA, or ACA (or equivalent)
- Demonstrated retail commercial finance experience, partnering with category, trading or commercial teams to drive financial performance.
- Proven ability to influence, engage, and constructively challenge stakeholders at all levels using evidence-based financial insight.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills (e.g. pivots, lookups, power pivots, macros) to deliver accurate analysis and streamlined reporting.
- Evidence effective communication of financial information to both finance and non-finance audiences to support commercial understanding.
- Proven ability to manage workload independently, prioritise effectively, and maintain financial compliance and high analytical standards.
Desirable criteria
- Experience with leading and coaching individuals and/or a team.
- Project and Supplier Negotiation experience.
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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: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
