Commercial Finance Manager - Argos Technology (18M FTC)

Please note, this role currently sits within our Sainsbury’s structure but will move across to our Argos structure under Swift Partners at a cutover point anticipated to be in approximately 18-24 months’ time. We are able to offer this role as either permanent or as an 18M FTC.
Why join us
Joining the Finance team at Sainsbury's Argos offers a unique opportunity to be a key player in driving financial decision-making within the dynamic and innovative Argos Technology division. As a Finance Manager – Argos Technology Business Partner, you will collaborate closely with senior leadership, providing support, challenge, and insights to shape the financial strategies of a leading retail and technology company. With a focus on delivering high-quality management information, influencing investment decisions, and ensuring compliance with governance standards, this role presents a platform for professionals to showcase their technical expertise and business acumen while fostering strong partnerships and making a significant impact on the organisation's financial performance and growth trajectory.

What you'll do

You will serve as a strategic finance business partner to the senior Argos Technology leadership team, providing support, challenge, and insight on all aspects of financial decision-making related to technology investment and BAU spend. You will play a crucial role in managing the end-to-end financial performance of the relevant area, ensuring full visibility of costs and value outcomes for Sainsbury's & Argos. Your responsibilities will include developing financial models to support business cases and investment decisions, overseeing management information delivery, contributing to corporate planning and budgeting activities, and ensuring compliance with Group accounting policies while maintaining high standards of governance and financial accuracy throughout each reporting cycle. Your ability to drive improved financial decision-making through high-quality analysis, stakeholder engagement skills, and strong controls mindset will be essential in this role.
Who you are
You are a professionally qualified accountant with a proven track record of providing strategic financial support and insightful analysis to senior leadership teams within the technology sector. Your strong technical foundation, commercial acumen, and experience in large FMCG, Food, Retail, or Technology businesses equip you to drive improved financial decision-making and ensure full compliance with accounting policies. With your exceptional business partnering skills, attention to detail, and ability to interpret complex financial data, you play a key role in fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, delivering high-quality management information, and contributing to the development of robust financial plans to support the growth and success of the organisation.
Essential Criteria

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with evidence of applying technical accounting knowledge to support commercial decision-making
• Demonstrable commercial finance business partnering experience operating within a large FMCG, retail, food, technology or similarly complex business environment
• Advanced Excel capability, including financial modelling, with evidence of delivering accurate financial analysis, maintaining financial controls, and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrable experience of effective stakeholder management, building and maintaining productive relationships across multiple functions
• Proven ability to analyse and interpret complex financial data, generating actionable insights to inform senior stakeholder decision-making

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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.
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).