Finance Transformation Portfolio Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 24 July 2025
Requisition ID: 400007738
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.
Please note, this role can be based out of our Holborn, Coventry or Manchester Store Support Centre & Home. Colleagues go into the office 1-2 days per week on average.
Sainsbury’s is looking for a driven and enthusiastic Finance Portfolio Manager to join a team in an exciting part of our Business. You will be joining a company that is dedicated to making our customers lives easier every day. Our values make us different and this underpins our core strategy.
In joining the Sainsbury’s Finance team, you will be working closely with a variety of stakeholders (finance and non-finance), at all levels, helping to support and shape the direction of our business. This role is within a team that dedicates in providing the best support to enable the best decisions to be made, for our customers and for our business.
Working with the Head of Finance Change, you will be responsible for supporting the Finance Leadership team to understand the demand, dependencies, and priorities on Finance, to shape and deliver our Next Level Strategy.
More about the role
- Create and manage robust reporting, capturing and monitoring change, impacting the way in which Finance works
- Connect & regularly engage with the wider Finance, Transformation and Tech communities, collating the outcome and share accurate Management Information to help drive visibility, align outcomes, manage dependencies, and encourage knowledge sharing, to enable better, faster decision making, prioritisation and demand on resources
- Demonstrate proactive drive, organisation and curiosity in your approach and will lead by example, championing a Transformation and continuous Improvement mindset and encouraging collaborative & end-to-end ways of working.
- Provide a Centre of Excellence for all Finance change related activities, connecting individual projects and programmes giving confidence and clarity around resource demand and dependencies
- Support the wider Finance Team on project and change management development
- Drive and support the creation of the Finance Leadership change governance agenda and supporting packs for distribution
- Manage and continuously improve the metrics, process & tooling requirements to support the best engagement and in capturing Finance change demand with key outcomes
More about you
- Experience of working on and managing multiple change projects and portfolios is essential
- Understanding and/or proactively seek to understand finance processes is essential
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, strong ability in story telling both verbally and written, with excellent levels of impact and influencing skills is essential
- Demonstratable presentation skills, with excellent forward planning and organisation is essential
- Proven track record of working independently, self-motivated and ability to manage own time, prioritise and respond accurately under pressure
- Curiosity and a drive to make things better
- Attention to detail, providing accurate and timely project & change information
- Exhibit a deep passion for continuous learning and seek to provide and share knowledge
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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).
