Head of Finance - EV & Procurement

Please note, this role is based out of our Holborn Store Support Centre & Home, colleagues go into the office 2 days per week on average. This multi-faceted role is responsible for proactively partnering with senior leadership, providing insightful analysis, challenge and influence to drive decisions and actions that improve the bottom line as well as maximising the business' cash position. You will lead a team to develop the assets required to effectively business partner and supporting the growth of a start-up EV business, focussing on value creation. You'll have full P&L ownership of said business. In addition, the role will involve business partnering the Procurement team to deliver GNFR cost savings as well as achieve working capital targets. You will set the direction for the team and provide strategic challenge to the business area to collectively strengthen performance. More about the role

• Act as key Finance Business Partner for senior leadership team and the Divisional Director, leading your team to interpret management reporting to provide insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders and providing challenge to the business
• Hold the business to account for P&L performance, Balance sheets and Cashflow
• With your team, support the business in identifying risks and opportunities. Take the lead in prioritising these and work with the business to manage them
• Lead the team to provide the business with an external perspective, defining the benchmark requirements and using outputs to challenge and influence
• Provide leadership both with your team and across Finance in your location, driving the re-set required in line with the operating model
• Challenge the business on existing strategic initiatives and identify new strategic opportunities, helping them to prioritise appropriately
• Complete ad hoc / bespoke analysis for the business area as required to drive improvements
• Own the design of management reporting, ensuring it is fit for purpose and streamlined
• Work with Finance BI to ensure analytical resource is used effectively and business priorities and resource allocation are well understood and aligned
• Success in this role will mean supporting the business in making decisions that enhance performance, We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we're not handling projects, we're helping all corners of the wider group with what they're trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives 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 sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there's always something else around the corner, and we'll help and support you every step of the way. We're trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
  
  An inspiring leader, supporting colleagues to build successful careers
• Experience of managing and building a team
• Effective communicator and challenger with stakeholders up to and including board level, including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen
• Proven track record of managing commercial relationships and influencing senior decision makers both internally and externally
• Self-motivated team player, able to work autonomously
• Proven history of effective prioritisation and ability to push back when appropriate
• Strong commercial acumen with a clear focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance
• Experience of maintaining strong financial controls
• Committed to driving change and comfortable with managing any associated conflicts, 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).
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, 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. You'll also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000 business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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).