Commercial Finance Manager - Argos Central Trading
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 17 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400052268
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.
Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining the Finance team at Sainsbury's Argos Central Trading Finance offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of commercial decision-making, providing vital insights that shape near and medium-term trading outcomes. As a Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in partnering with key stakeholders, driving forecasting accuracy, and delivering actionable insights that drive business success. With a focus on continuous improvement, collaboration, and impactful decision-making, you will have the chance to make a real difference while developing your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.
What you'll do
As the Finance Manager for Argos Central Trading Finance, you will be responsible for acting as a trusted finance partner to the Commercial Director and senior trading stakeholders, providing forward-looking insight and analysis on sales, margin, and stock forecasting. Your role will involve delivering clear analysis of key trading trends, identifying risks and opportunities, and ensuring alignment between stock decisions and sales / margin forecasts. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure aligned plans across channels, support trading reviews with insightful commentary, and continuously improve forecasting processes and insight quality to drive informed decision-making and optimise trading outcomes.
Who you are
You are a qualified accountant with proven experience in forecasting, trend analysis, and performance management within a trading environment. Your high level of commercial acumen allows you to understand the intricacies of sales, margin, and stock outcomes, while your attention to detail and ability to connect financial outputs to operational drivers ensure accurate and insightful analysis. With your proactive, self-starting approach, you take ownership of insight quality and forecasting accuracy, continuously seeking ways to enhance decision-making processes and improve overall performance across sales, margin, and stock.
Essential Criteria
- Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA)
- Demonstrable commercial finance experience, ideally within retail/GM/FMCG: Proven delivery of forecasting, trend analysis and performance management with direct relevance to sales, margin and stock
- Commercial and analytical capability: Evidenced ability to analyse and explain the key drivers of sales, margin and stock, including margin mechanics and stock dynamics
- Advanced financial modelling and data analysis skills to produce accurate, reliable financial outputs where data may be incomplete or ambiguous; Alteryx and Power BI are desirable
- Insightful communication and stakeholder influence: Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear, actionable insights and to effectively challenge and influence senior stakeholders
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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).
