Finance Manager - FP&A

Job description

Please note, this role is based out of our Holborn Store Support Centre & Home, colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average. 

In this role you will be a key member of the Retail Financial Planning team with primary responsibility for providing the business with high quality Sainsbury’s P&L performance analysis, Latest Views, Budgets, forecasts and five year Corporate Plan, as well as ad hoc analysis for the Director of FP&A, Director of Investor Relations and Financial Planning, and CFO.

More about the role

• Working closely with Finance teams, developing an understanding of trends in performance, and key issues, activities, and timetables
• Consolidating submissions into the corporate Sainsbury’s picture, providing constructive challenge to relevant Finance teams
• Assisting in the production of executive summaries and board papers which distil the data and focus on the key issues
• Accountable for the production of timely, accurate, and insightful periodic Sainsbury’s management accounts
• Ownership for telling a clear story of performance - not just providing a P&L, but developing visualisations to really bring the numbers to life, and drive action
• Integrate external analysis into our reporting where applicable - provide context to our forecast results in the eyes of investors and analysts
• Produce accurate and timely management reporting information for our senior leaders; including insightful commentary to support the key summary documents
• Manage channel reporting, analysis and insight to help the business understand which channels are driving growth, the cost of the likely volume trends and guide the operational areas with their forecast
• Taking ownership for the key set pieces, including, Corporate Plan and Budget. You will look to continually improve our processes here; brining insight and ideas to ensure we deliver an efficient, robust and quality process - with a best in class outputs
• Perform sensitivity analysis and financial evaluation of different financial performance scenarios
• Support the Group Finance and Investor relations teams on the corporate interim and preliminary financial reporting process
• Manage the production of a high quality internal and external financial / business review that ensures we meet our reporting requirements and the business's expectations in an efficient and cost effective manner, in addition to producing the supporting Q&A document for the Commercial Finance Director & CFO answering all queries raised to support external reporting
• Coordinate activity involved in producing external LFL reporting for the Sainsbury’s business
• Accountable for cross-referencing and producing accurate documentation in all areas
• Lead, develop and motivate members of the team to high performance through great coaching and communication, review of work, suggesting areas for improvement and sharing expertise

More about you 

• Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) 
• Strong retail / FMCG experience
• Proven experience of collating, consolidating and reporting of complex data - (One Stream experience is advantageous) 
• Curiosity beyond traditional finance boundaries and ability to understand key business drivers 
• Ability to effectively communicate and challenge senior stakeholders, including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen to manage financial performance
• Self-motivated team player, able to work autonomously, build and utilise a broader cross-functional network 
• Ability to prioritise workload whilst managing business and finance stakeholder expectations in a fast paced, ever changing environment 
• Proven ability and desire to deliver change  

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).