Finance Manager - Order To Cash (12M FTC) in Manchester

This role is flexible on location and can be based out of our London, Coventry or Manchester SSC.

About the team

You will join the Financial Operations function, supporting the Argos business through a significant period of finance transformation. The team plays a critical role in shaping how finance supports commercial propositions, technology change and regulatory compliance, working closely with Technology, Product and Commercial colleagues. This is a high-profile environment where finance expertise directly influences how new systems and ways of working are designed, implemented and embedded across the organisation.

More about the role

This role leads the delivery of finance workstreams across major transformation initiatives, focusing on the Order to Cash lifecycle. With solution design largely agreed, your day to day will centre on overseeing build activity, supporting testing phases, managing cutover and go-live, and ensuring effective stabilisation post-implementation. You will act as the primary finance interface for technology and change teams, ensuring accounting, control and regulatory requirements are fully embedded within new systems and processes.

You can expect to work on complex, cross-functional projects, designing future-state finance processes, documenting controls and accounting treatments, and identifying risks early. A key part of the role is supporting the transition into business-as-usual, making sure finance teams are operationally ready and confident to run new processes once projects go live.

More about you

You will bring demonstrable experience working across finance, technology and wider business teams, with the ability to operate confidently in complex change environments. You are comfortable partnering with senior stakeholders and able to influence, challenge, and provide clear financial insight to support decision making.

You are pragmatic and solutions focused, with the ability to translate technical finance and accounting requirements into clear, workable processes for non-finance colleagues. You are experienced in identifying financial and operational risks, articulating options, and supporting proportionate mitigation, while maintaining alignment with group policy and regulatory standards.

Essential criteria

• Experience working in cross-functional environments across Finance, Technology and wider business teams.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships across multiple levels, including senior stakeholders.
• Ability to translate finance and accounting information for non-finance colleagues in a clear and pragmatic way.

Desirable

• Previous experience within finance operations.
• Understanding sales and takings posting and related finance processes.
• Experience delivering projects or workstreams within a change or transformation environment.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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 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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).