Commercial Finance Manager - Digital Transformation

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 Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average.

Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager for Digital Transformation offers the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the financial success of our rapidly growing Digital business, including our Groceries Online and Food on Demand propositions. As a trusted partner to the Digital and Transformation leadership team, you will drive top‑line growth, improve profitability, and contribute to the strategic planning and development of innovative solutions. Collaborating with diverse teams and stakeholders, you will have the chance to influence decision‑making, drive value, and support sustainable growth within a dynamic and forward‑thinking environment.

What You'll Do

• You will serve as a trusted Finance Business Partner to the Digital and Transformation leadership team, offering commercial insights and actionable recommendations to drive top‑line growth, improve profitability, support cost‑saving targets, and manage risks and opportunities within the Groceries Online and Food on Demand propositions.
• You will collaborate across various departments to deliver strategic and financial plans, develop robust business cases for investment opportunities, drive accurate forecasting and planning processes, identify and manage risks and opportunities, and translate complex data into clear insights to enhance performance and decision‑making.
• Additionally, you will support the Digital transformation agenda, partner with procurement teams, cover for the Head of Finance when necessary, and contribute to ad‑hoc projects as needed, all while maintaining strong financial controls and prioritising deliverables in alignment with corporate expectations.

Who You Are

You are a professionally qualified accountant with a proven track record of driving financial performance and providing strategic insights, ideally within the Retail industry. With your strong commercial acumen, excellent communication skills, and ability to build robust investment cases, you play a key role in shaping the financial success of Sainsbury's Digital business. Your data‑curious mindset, resilience and proactive approach allow you to navigate complex data, influence decision‑making, and drive sustainable growth while maintaining strong financial controls and ensuring accuracy in financial planning and forecasting.

Essential Criteria

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA)
• Demonstrable commercial finance experience, including applying financial insight to influence business decisions and support financial performance
• Proven experience building and evaluating investment and business cases, including financial modelling, appraisal and recommendations
• Demonstrable ability to maintain effective financial controls, ensuring accuracy, compliance and robust governance
• Evidence of analysing and interpreting data to generate insights, including communicating findings clearly to senior stakeholders, with experience using analytics or visualisation tools where applicable

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer; you’ll be welcomed whatever 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. 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. 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, an 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 as 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.