Finance Business Manager EPT

Sainsbury’s Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions

Private healthcare

Bonus potential (up to 20% of salary)

Cycle to work

Job summary

Sainsbury's Argos division is seeking a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) to own profitability measures and cost-to-serve methodologies. You will bridge Finance, Commercial and engineering teams to translate requirements into data-driven outputs and secure formal sign-off for changes.

The role emphasizes governance, stakeholder alignment and clear documentation, with a focus on enabling informed decision-making and tangible business impact.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of retail profit and loss management and profitability measures.
• Experience translating finance and business requirements into documented rules and acceptance criteria.
• Experience coordinating user acceptance testing and securing approvals for changes.
• Ability to analyse profitability movements and the impact of trading activity on financial outputs.
• Experience working across finance, commercial and technical stakeholders to prioritise requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own and define the business and Finance aspects of EPT (Cost to Serve).
• Translate business requirements into precise data requirements to support EPT outputs.
• Coordinate requirements, user testing, and Finance sign-off with stakeholders.
• Elucidate profitability movements and promoter effective utilisation of EPT across the organisation.
• Maintain documentation of methodology, business rules and approvals for transparency.

Skills

Profitability analysis

Cost to serve principles

Stakeholder management

Requirements translation

UAT coordination

Job description

Join our team at Argos as a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment where your expertise in profitability measures and cost-to-serve principles will play a crucial role in driving informed decision-making. As a key link between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, you will have the opportunity to lead the business definition of EPT, ensuring clear requirements and methodologies are translated effectively to support the delivery of impactful outcomes. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and effective communication, this role offers a platform for you to make a tangible difference and drive meaningful change within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation., As the Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) at Argos, you will play a crucial role in owning and defining the business and Finance aspects of EPT, ensuring profitability measures, cost pools, allocation drivers, and assumptions are clearly articulated and approved. You will serve as the key liaison between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, translating business requirements into precise data requirements to ensure that EPT outputs accurately reflect the intended methodology and support well-informed decision-making. Working across various teams, you will coordinate requirements, user testing, Finance sign-off, and backlog priorities, while elucidating profitability movements, clarifying limitations, and promoting effective utilisation of EPT across the organisation. Your role will involve providing clear business ownership and decision-making for EPT changes, maintaining alignment among stakeholders, and ensuring documentation of methodology, business rules, and approvals for transparency and consistency.

• Demonstrable knowledge of retail profit and loss management, profitability measures, cost-to-serve principles, cost allocation methodologies and commercial performance drivers.
• Proven experience translating finance and business requirements into documented business rules, functional requirements and testable acceptance criteria for technology or data solutions.
• Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, reconciling outputs against agreed requirements, and securing formal business or finance approval for system or process changes.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse profitability performance and identify the impact of trading activity, allocation methodologies, data changes and business assumptions on financial outputs.
• Proven experience working across finance, commercial and technical stakeholders to prioritise requirements, maintain delivery backlogs and achieve agreement on business outcomes and priorities.

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

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.

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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.