Finance Manager - Supplier Planning

ACCA Careers; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Commercial Finance professional to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you'll partner with various stakeholders to provide analytical support and drive decision-making in commercial negotiations. Your expertise will help maximize sales and improve margins while ensuring compliance with financial standards. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within a fast-paced environment. If you're a self-motivated team player with a passion for finance and a desire to contribute to meaningful outcomes, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Colleague discount up to 15%

Performance-related bonus up to 20%

Annual holiday allowance

Private healthcare

Season ticket loans

Interest-free car loan up to £10k

Cycle to work scheme

Health cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Maternity and paternity leave pay

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with strong commercial finance experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support Supplier Planning and drive analytical insights.
• Manage one analyst and ensure compliance with financial standards.

Skills

Commercial Finance Business Partnering

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Communication

Problem Solving

Financial Modelling

Education

Qualified Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Job description

Job Description

Please note, this role is based out of our Holborn Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1 day per week on average.

The Commercial Finance Team plays a crucial role in both shaping and delivering the strategy at Sainsbury's. It's a highly competitive industry that never stands still, and Finance has a key role to play in driving, partnering, and protecting our business. Our focus is on maximising sales, profit, return on investment and cash flow alongside our non-financial objectives.

Our ability to work with Suppliers and build partnerships that unlock shared growth through sustainable customer outcomes is key part of our strategy.

This role will be embedded in one of our Commercial Buying areas and work alongside our Commercial Finance team providing analytical and decision-making support through Commercial negotiations.

More about the role

• Support the wider Supplier Planning team as we shape and develop our approach to Branded and Own Label Supplier Planning
• Partner with Finance and Non-Finance stakeholders and provide decision-making support and constructive challenge that enable us to grow sales, improve margin, and drive cashflow
• Drive insight and analytical support on Supplier Planning activity, including scenario modelling and analysing negotiation outcomes to understand the financial impact of commercial negotiations
• Provide constructive challenge to ensure that we set appropriate targets, provide robust financial modelling to support decisions, deliver against our plans, and realise negotiated benefits
• Communicate project progress, financial benefits, or outcomes pertinent to this area.
• Ensure that we remain compliant to all relevant financial accounting standards
• Directly manage one analyst and draw on support from a pool of Analysts

More about you

• Qualified accountant - CIMA/ACCA/ACA
• Strong Commercial Finance Business Partnering experience
• Self-motivated team player, able to work autonomously, prioritise and solve problems
• Live our valued behaviours; 'Own it', 'Make it Better' and 'Be human'
• Immerse yourself within the category team, build relationships and understand the respective priorities of the cross-functional teams (Buying, Supply Chain, Ranging, Category planning, Technical, Innovation, Finance, Plan for Better and Packaging teams)
• Applies experience working in large Retail business and an understanding of Commercial Margin levers and Supplier business models to create value for the business
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders. Very good networking and partnering skills

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 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.

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