Location: London Store Support Centre & Home - colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Finance Manager for Retail Labour Costs offers a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in managing one of the largest and most complex cost lines in the P&L - retail labour, covering store colleague and management costs across the estate. As part of the Retail Costs Team, you will collaborate closely with senior leadership to provide deep analytical insights, financial control, and strategic guidance that drives performance and optimises workforce efficiency. With a focus on transformation and continuous improvement, you will have the chance to lead a team, influence key business decisions, and contribute to shaping the financial success of the company while fostering a culture of curiosity, accountability, and high performance.
What you'll do
You will play a pivotal role in partnering with the Director of Labour & Operating Models and Retail leadership teams to provide deep analytical insight, robust financial control, and commercial challenge to drive performance and optimise workforce efficiency. You will be responsible for translating operational metrics into financial impacts and actionable recommendations, supporting P&L delivery, forecasting, financial modelling, and labour cost-saving programmes. Additionally, you will lead a team of finance analysts, fostering a culture of curiosity, ownership, and accountability while effectively managing commercial relationships and influencing senior decision-makers to achieve best-in-class business partnering and financial performance.
Who you are
You are a professionally qualified accountant with a strong focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance while maintaining robust financial control. Your extensive experience in business partnering and influencing senior decision-makers, coupled with your ability to provide clear data-driven insights and high-impact analysis, enables you to support key transformation programmes and drive efficiency in labour costs. With a proactive and forward-thinking approach, you lead a culture of curiosity, ownership, and accountability, demonstrating resilience and adaptability in managing complex financial challenges and driving positive change within the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience working within Retail, FMCG or a similar large fast paced organisation
- Demonstrable experience of business partnering and influencing commercial and operational stakeholders, including presenting, challenging and communicating financial insights to senior leaders up to Director level
- Demonstrable people management experience
- Proven ability to identify risks, opportunities and performance improvement areas, using financial and commercial insight to challenge business performance and support decision-making
- Evidence of managing commercial relationships and balancing competing priorities, including making recommendations, appropriately challenging requests and delivering outcomes in a changing environment
- Experience of maintaining robust financial controls and leading or supporting change initiatives, including managing associated risks, issues and stakeholder impacts
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