Finance Manager - Technology

ACCA Careers; Coventry; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Pensions

Private healthcare

Job summary

Sainsbury's is seeking a Finance Manager - Technology Business Partner to act as the trusted finance partner to the Director of Technology - DGIS and the Director of Technology - Data Ecosystems. You will lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning for technology investments and BAU spend, delivering insights to senior stakeholders to maximise value.

You will develop business cases, investment appraisals and ROI analyses, ensuring governance, cost control and effective reporting across

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with demonstrable application of technical and commercial finance expertise.
• Proven experience leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities and providing financial insight to support business decision-making.
• Demonstrable experience developing, evaluating and challenging business cases, investment appraisals or return-on-investment assessments.
• Advanced Excel capability, including financial modelling and analysis, with experience presenting complex financial information using PowerPoint.
• Proven ability to interpret complex financial data, influence stakeholders and maintain effective financial governance and controls

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities across technology teams.
• Develop and evaluate business cases, investment appraisals and ROI assessments.
• Provide financial insight and challenge to support strategic technology decisions.
• Ensure governance and controls are robust and reporting is clear and timely

Skills

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Interpreting financial data

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About the team

Sainsbury's Technology is at the heart of delivering the digital, data and security capabilities that support millions of customer and colleague interactions across Sainsbury's and Argos. Within Technology, the Data Governance & Information Security (DGIS) and Data Ecosystems teams are key enablers of large-scale transformation programmes, helping the business unlock the value of data, improve decision making and ensure information is protected and governed effectively.

Job Description

As part of the Technology Finance team, you'll work closely with senior leaders across Technology and Finance, influencing significant investment decisions and helping to ensure technology spend delivers measurable value for the business. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile programmes that support the future growth and transformation of Sainsbury's and Argos.

More About The Role

As Finance Manager - Technology Business Partner, you'll be the trusted finance partner to the Director of Technology - DGIS and the Director of Technology - Data Ecosystems. You'll provide financial insight, challenge and support across all aspects of technology investment and business-as-usual spend, helping senior stakeholders make informed decisions that support strategic priorities and business objectives.

You'll lead budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities across both technology teams, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of costs, risks, opportunities and value outcomes. Working closely with colleagues across Technology, Finance and external partners, including offshore suppliers, you'll support the development and evaluation of business cases, investment appraisals and return-on-investment assessments to maximise value from technology investment.

Alongside this, you'll oversee the delivery of management information, support capital and cash planning, maintain effective financial controls and governance, and ensure compliance with Group accounting policies and standards. You'll also play a key role in driving continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve reporting and enhance financial decision-making across Technology Finance.

More About You

You are a professionally qualified accountant who combines technical finance expertise with commercial awareness and enjoys building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. You have demonstrable experience providing insight and challenge to support business decision-making and are confident operating within a complex, fast-paced environment.

You have the ability to interpret complex financial information and translate it into meaningful recommendations for a range of audiences. You bring an organised and structured approach to your work, consistently delivering key financial activities on time whilst maintaining a focus on governance, controls and accuracy.

You'll be highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint, with experience analysing data, developing financial models and presenting financial insights in a clear and compelling way. Your ability to influence stakeholders, balance priorities and provide pragmatic challenge will be key to your success in this role.

Essential Criteria

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with demonstrable application of technical and commercial finance expertise.
• Proven experience leading budgeting, forecasting and financial planning activities and providing financial insight to support business decision-making.
• Demonstrable experience developing, evaluating and challenging business cases, investment appraisals or return-on-investment assessments.
• Advanced Excel capability, including financial modelling and analysis, with experience presenting complex financial information using PowerPoint.
• Proven ability to interpret complex financial data, influence stakeholders and maintain effective financial governance and controls

Responsibilities

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.

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).