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Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Transformation
Closing date: 21 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400068352

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 

Joining the Finance team at Sainsbury's Argos offers a unique opportunity to become a key player in driving financial insight, strategic decision-making and performance management across the business. As an FP&A Finance Manager, you will work closely with senior leadership to shape budgeting, forecasting and performance reporting, while playing an increasingly important role in strengthening the business's focus on cash flow and capital investment performance.

This role provides the opportunity to influence key business decisions, improve planning processes and enhance financial visibility across sales, profit, cash and capital expenditure. You will help translate complex financial data into actionable recommendations, ensuring strong financial discipline while supporting the delivery of both short-term performance and long-term strategic objectives.

What You'll Do

You will play a pivotal role in driving financial insight and performance management across the business. You will lead key elements of the planning cycle, providing insightful analysis of business performance, partnering with senior leadership to support strategic decision-making and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.

Alongside your core FP&A responsibilities, you will help drive the business's approach to cash flow and capital expenditure planning, working closely with wider Finance teams to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting, governance and decision support. You will provide analysis and insight into working capital trends, cash performance and investment plans, helping stakeholders understand financial impacts, risks and opportunities.

Your responsibilities will include developing and maintaining financial models, driving process improvements, supporting profitability, cash and investment analysis, and ensuring strong financial governance and compliance. You will also be accountable for preparing high-quality presentations and commentary for key stakeholders, translating complex data into clear recommendations and influencing senior leaders to drive improved business performance.

Who You Are

You are a professionally qualified accountant with strong FP&A experience and a passion for turning financial data into meaningful business insight. You combine excellent financial modelling and analytical capability with a commercial mindset and a proactive approach to solving problems.

You are comfortable operating across a broad FP&A remit while bringing curiosity and interest in cash flow, working capital and capital investment performance. Your collaborative and influential approach, coupled with excellent communication skills, enables you to engage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively and support better decision-making across the business.

Essential Criteria

  • Professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA or CIMA)
  • Financial modelling, data analysis and systems capability; demonstrable experience building and analysing financial models and working with large data sets using tools such as Excel, Power BI, Alteryx or comparable platforms; experience with financial systems (e.g. OneStream) is advantageous
  • Management reporting, budgeting and forecasting expertise; proven delivery of budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes, with clear application of accounting principles and financial controls
  • Experience analysing cash flow, working capital and/or capital expenditure performance, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations
  • Insight generation and decision support; evidence of interpreting complex financial and operational data to support commercial and strategic decision making
  • Stakeholder engagement and communication; demonstrable ability to work as a business partner, communicating financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders, influencing decisions and constructively challenging where appropriate

 

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