Commercial Finance Manager - Logistics (12M FTC)

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.
Location: London, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office and/or depot 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager in Logistics means stepping into a dynamic environment where you will play a crucial role in providing finance leadership and strategic business partnering across our Logistics division. With the opportunity to work closely with internal stakeholders and third-party logistics partners, you will have the chance to drive data-led decisions, enhance financial performance, and contribute to key strategic initiatives that support our Sainsbury's strategy. As a qualified accountant with a focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance, you will have the support, training, and resources needed to excel in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, making a significant impact on the bottom line while building trusted relationships and delivering value for money.
What You'll Do
You will be responsible for providing finance leadership and business partnering across Logistics, including third-party logistics strategic partners. Your role will involve delivering high-quality insights, analysis, and constructive challenges to support decisions that enhance the bottom line, strengthen control, deliver value for money, and align with the Sainsbury's strategy. Building trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders and strategic partners, you will lead budgeting, forecasting, and risk management processes, collaborate with procurement to ensure contract obligations are met, and drive financial and commercial performance through data-led decisions and strategic business cases. Your success in this role will be measured by your ability to support the business in making decisions that improve financial performance and drive positive outcomes.
Who You Are
You are a qualified accountant with a proven track record of driving data-led decisions and providing financial leadership to enhance business performance. Your strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to challenge and collaborate with senior stakeholders demonstrate your capability to manage financial performance effectively. With a focus on delivering change, building strategic business cases, and fostering trusted relationships, you play a key role in supporting decisions that drive value, strengthen control, and contribute to the achievement of the company's strategic goals.
Essential Criteria

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with demonstrable commercial finance business partnering experience, ideally within the FMCG, retail or logistics industry
• Demonstrable experience using financial and business data to inform decision-making and influence performance outcomes
• Proven ability to communicate financial information clearly, both verbally and in writing, including presenting insights to senior stakeholders and constructively challenging recommendations where appropriate
• Evidence of partnering with stakeholders across multiple functions to understand business drivers, manage expectations and influence commercial and financial performance
• Proven track record of prioritising competing demands and delivering change within a fast-paced and evolving business environment
  

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).