Commercial Finance Manager

ASDA; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary company bonus

Pension up to 7% matched

Company Car allowance of £5,700

15% colleague discount

Access to wellbeing services

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking a Commercial Finance Manager to drive performance in their Food Trading division. You will collaborate with key stakeholders and utilize analytical insights to enhance operations and achieve P&L targets. This role demands a finance qualification and exceptional communication skills to influence senior stakeholders. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model with notable employee benefits including a discretionary bonus and wellness services.

Qualifications

• Understanding customer needs across different channels & formats.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive change.
• Capacity to communicate complex matters simply and effectively.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Food leadership team to drive performance.
• Manage planning processes for revenue and costs.
• Lead investment appraisal and cost efficiency projects.
• Own month-end performance narrative and actions.

Skills

Customer obsession

Communication skills

Driving change

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant Profession level Finance or Business qualification

Job description

Job Title

Commercial Finance Manager

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Financial Planning and Analysis

Closing Date

1 March 2026

“Find your role”

In the Finance team at Asda the focus of a Commercial Finance Manager is to drive the performance of the business area that you partner, using available tools and data to develop actionable insight, and using that insight to drive change. This particular role will partner with our Food Trading stakeholders. You play a key role in ensuring we deliver the operational plans and the P&L targets, ensuring monthly performance is understood and acted upon, and influencing stakeholders to address risks and opportunities and make a real difference to business performance.

Your Role

• Partner with the Food leadership team to surface value-add ideas, understand risks & opportunities, and rigorously challenge mitigation and action planning.
• Manage the long-range, in-year, and short-term planning process for revenue and costs, incorporating the latest information into a robust outlook and ensuring alignment with our corporate financial and strategic plans.
• Value-add analysis: In collaboration with the finance analysts and the data and analytics team, you'll turn insights into actions to identify value-add opportunities.
• Investment Appraisal: Lead the assessment of projects that redefine our store operations, driving cost efficiency and elevating our customer proposition.
• Own the month-end performance narrative, ensuring performance is understood and necessary future actions are in place.
• Working with senior finance and non-finance stakeholders, you'll help make complex financial concepts easily understood and actionable.
• Play an active role within the wider finance community.

Let's find out about you

• You’re obsessed about the Asda Customer and can demonstrate an understanding of the customer across different channels & formats
• You’re proactive and curious – challenging the status quo and capable of driving change.
• You’re an excellent collaborator, able to communicate complex matters simply and effectively and build effective relationships to influence senior stakeholders
• You’re passionate about your own performance and Asda’s – willing to take ownership and be accountable for delivering your piece of the puzzle.
• You’re resilient to change and embrace positively with a continuous improvement mindset.
• You want to understand the business, the market and know what will make a difference commercially
• Relevant Profession level Finance or Business qualification preferred

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves