Finance Manager - Electric Vehicle Charging

About the team

Join a fast-growing and innovative area of the business focused on electric vehicle charging. As part of a high-performing finance team supporting a developing EV proposition, you will play a key role in helping shape the commercial and financial direction of the business. Working in a collaborative environment, you will partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams across Property, Operations, Marketing and Technology to support sustainable growth, maximise value creation and influence strategic decision‑making.

As Finance Manager, you will act as a trusted Finance Business Partner, providing financial insight, challenge and support to drive commercial performance. You will take ownership of management reporting, budgeting and forecasting activities, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities across the profit and loss account, balance sheet and cashflow.

Day to day, you will analyse revenue, utilisation, profitability and site performance, translating complex financial data into clear recommendations. You will support investment decisions, develop business cases, model future growth scenarios and help ensure robust financial governance. The role also offers the opportunity to improve reporting processes, enhance data quality and drive greater automation to support faster and more effective decision‑making.

You will be a qualified accountant who enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders and translating financial information into meaningful business insight. You will be comfortable working in a developing business environment where priorities can evolve, and where commercial judgement, curiosity and proactive problem‑solving are highly valued.

To be successful, you will demonstrate the ability to influence decision‑making through evidence‑based recommendations, manage competing priorities effectively and work collaboratively across a wide range of functions. You will also be committed to maintaining financial control, improving processes and identifying opportunities to enhance business performance.

• Professional accounting qualification, for example ACA, ACCA or CIMA, with current membership or equivalent certification
• Demonstrable experience producing and interpreting management reporting, budgets and forecasts, including identifying risks and opportunities to support business decision‑making
• Proven ability to build financial models, evaluate investment proposals and present commercially focused recommendations to stakeholders
• Experience managing financial controls, including cashflow forecasting, balance sheet management, accruals, revenue recognition, capital investment governance and performance reporting
• Demonstrable ability to influence stakeholders through data‑led analysis, clear financial insight and constructive commercial challenge
• Experience improving financial reporting processes, data quality and/or automation to support faster and more effective decision‑making

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…