Finance Business Manager – Cost to serve Argos

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 1-2 days per week on average.

Why join us

Join our team at Argos as a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) and immerse yourself in a dynamic environment where your expertise in profitability measures and cost-to-serve principles will play a crucial role in driving informed decision-making. As a key link between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, you will have the opportunity to lead the business definition of EPT, ensuring clear requirements and methodologies are translated effectively to support the delivery of impactful outcomes. With a focus on collaboration, innovation, and effective communication, this role offers a platform for you to make a tangible difference and drive meaningful change within a supportive and forward-thinking organisation.

What you’ll do

As the Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) at Argos, you will play a crucial role in owning and defining the business and Finance aspects of EPT, ensuring profitability measures, cost pools, allocation drivers, and assumptions are clearly articulated and approved. You will serve as the key liaison between Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams, translating business requirements into precise data requirements to ensure that EPT outputs accurately reflect the intended methodology and support well-informed decision-making. Working across various teams, you will coordinate requirements, user testing, Finance sign-off, and backlog priorities, while elucidating profitability movements, clarifying limitations, and promoting effective utilisation of EPT across the organisation. Your role will involve providing clear business ownership and decision-making for EPT changes, maintaining alignment among stakeholders, and ensuring documentation of methodology, business rules, and approvals for transparency and consistency.

Who you are

As a Finance Business Manager EPT (Cost to Serve) for Argos, you are a strategic and detail-oriented professional with a deep understanding of retail operating P & L, profitability, and cost-to-serve principles. Your ability to translate complex Finance and business requirements into clear documentation, communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, and analyse profitability movements sets you apart. With a strong focus on building relationships, aligning cross-functional teams, and providing clear business ownership, you play a pivotal role in driving informed decision-making and ensuring the alignment of Finance, Commercial, and engineering teams towards achieving desired outcomes and priorities.

Essential Criteria

• Demonstrable knowledge of retail profit and loss management, profitability measures, cost-to-serve principles, cost allocation methodologies and commercial performance drivers.
• Proven experience translating finance and business requirements into documented business rules, functional requirements and testable acceptance criteria for technology or data solutions.
• Experience coordinating user acceptance testing, reconciling outputs against agreed requirements, and securing formal business or finance approval for system or process changes.
• Demonstrable ability to analyse profitability performance and identify the impact of trading activity, allocation methodologies, data changes and business assumptions on financial outputs.
• Proven experience working across finance, commercial and technical stakeholders to prioritise requirements, maintain delivery backlogs and achieve agreement on business outcomes and priorities.

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).