Commercial Finance Manager - Technology (Projects)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 04 May 2026
Requisition ID: 400058242
Location: London or Coventry Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.
We are looking for two Finance Managers to join the team: one partnering Argos Technology leadership teams and the other partnering Sainsbury’s Technology leadership teams.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager - Technology (Projects) means being at the forefront of financial decision-making within the Technology division of a leading retail organisation. You will have the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders, providing support, challenge, and insight on technology investments and operational spend. With a focus on project delivery and strategic business partnering, this role offers a dynamic environment where you can leverage your financial expertise to drive informed decision-making, contribute to key projects, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future success of the company.
What you'll do
You will play a vital role in providing financial support, challenge, and strategic insight to the senior Sainsbury's/Argos Technology leadership team, ensuring sound financial decision-making in relation to technology investment and BAU spend. You will lead the delivery of key priority projects within the Technology and Finance divisions, collaborating with various stakeholders and adapting to diverse demands across the function. In this project-oriented role, you will serve as a strategic finance business partner to Technology, fostering cross-functional collaboration and building effective relationships with senior stakeholders, while ensuring clear decision-making governance and delivering high-quality management information for Technology stakeholders to enable informed decision-making. You will also be responsible for developing financial models, contributing to corporate planning and budgeting activities, and ensuring compliance with Group accounting policies to maintain governance standards across Tech finance processes.
Who you are
You are a professionally qualified accountant with a strong technical foundation and demonstrated commercial acumen. Your expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, and compliance, combined with advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, enables you to provide strategic financial guidance and support to senior stakeholders, drive improved decision-making through insightful analysis, and ensure robust financial governance across key projects and initiatives. Your ability to build strong cross-functional relationships, deliver high-quality financial insights, and prioritise effectively under pressure makes you a valuable asset in accelerating the achievement of Technology and Finance division objectives.
Essential Criteria
- Professionally qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with demonstrable application of technical accounting knowledge in a commercial environment
- Proven experience operating within a large, complex organisation, such as FMCG, Food, Retail or Technology, with exposure to scale, pace and cross‑functional ways of working
- Demonstrable advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability, including financial modelling and analysis (e.g. pivot tables, lookups, macros) and the ability to present financial insights clearly to senior stakeholders
- Proven business partnering and stakeholder engagement capability, influencing decision‑making through high‑quality financial analysis and insight
- Evidence of delivering accurate, well‑controlled finance outputs, including effective prioritisation, adherence to governance standards, and delivery of key finance activities to deadlines, including working under pressure
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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).
