Finance Manager - Control Assurance in London

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving 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 scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Location: Manchester or London Store Support Centre & Home – colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.

Joining Sainsbury's as the Finance Manager - Control Assurance (Design) means being part of a dynamic team dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the financial control framework of one of the UK's leading retailers. As a qualified accountant, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels, providing guidance on controls, driving process improvements, and supporting compliance efforts. With a focus on proactive collaboration, continuous learning opportunities, and the chance to lead projects, you will play a crucial role in shaping the financial control landscape within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

You will play a key role in supporting the development and maintenance of the company's financial control framework. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to identify and implement controls across ad hoc change and transformation projects, conduct end-to-end process walkthroughs, and work towards resolving any design gaps. Your expertise in process, risk, and control principles will be crucial as you support the compliance efforts across the Group, ensuring adherence to the Group Financial Control Framework. Additionally, you will lead improvement activities around compliance and governance tools, maintain relationships with internal audit teams, and provide leadership and guidance on projects. Your ability to communicate effectively, make recommendations for process efficiency improvements, and drive remedial actions for control deficiencies will be essential in this role.

You are a qualified accountant with a strong background in process, risk, and control principles, particularly within the context of the COSO Framework and UK Corporate Governance Requirements. Your exceptional communication skills and proactive collaboration abilities enable you to work closely with stakeholders at all levels, identifying deficiencies, making informed recommendations, and driving remedial actions to ensure effective financial control framework compliance. With your experience in business process mapping and a track record of providing leadership, you play a crucial role in supporting the development and maintenance of robust financial controls, contributing to the overall governance and compliance objectives of the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional accounting qualification)
• Demonstrable experience applying risk, process and control frameworks, including knowledge of COSO principles and UK Corporate Governance requirements
• Proven ability to evaluate control environments, identify control deficiencies, and provide recommendations that support the implementation of remedial actions
• Experience mapping business processes and controls and documenting control activities within a complex business environment
• Evidence of leading teams, projects or workstreams, and collaborating with stakeholders at varying levels to influence outcomes and support control objectives

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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.