Job Title
Senior Retail Finance Manager - South
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive Salary plus benefits
Category
Financial Planning and Analysis
Closing Date
26 July 2025Find your roleWe're recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager. As a Senior Finance Business Partner for Retail Operations, you’ll work closely with regional managers, store leadership, and central retail support teams to provide insight, challenge, and guidance that drives operational performance and cost efficiency. This is a key role for a commercially savvy finance professional who wants to be at the heart of how our stores run day-to-day, helping ASDA deliver value to our customers while improving store performance and supporting strategic initiatives.Your role
1. Partnering with the Retail Operations leadership team to provide financial insight into store performance, labour productivity, and other customer service metrics.
2. Deliver weekly and monthly reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs), including sales performance, wages, availability, waste and shrink
3. Develop and enhance financial reporting and reporting tools for use by non-financial stakeholders.
4. Challenge data integrity to ensure quality and accuracy
5. Collaborate with data and analytics teams to improve the quality and timeliness of insights.
6. Challenge inefficiencies and support initiatives aimed at cost reduction and operational improvement
7. Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organisation's goals
8. Develop solutions based on an understanding of the business environment and objectives
9. Work closely with Controllership and other Commercial Finance teams
10. Work with all relevant areas of the business that serve the financial accounting, reporting and control requirements e.g. shared services, to ensure accurate financial reporting and full compliance with financial regulations / accounting standards
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11. Be a qualified accountant
12. Have a strategic mindset and can see ahead to future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies
13. Have in depth commercial understanding of the Retail grocery market
14. Ability to makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
15. Have strong analytical and strategic capability
16. Demonstrate your experience in leadership, coaching and team development
17. Able to communicate complex matters simply and effectively to non-financial stakeholders
18. Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build strong trusting relationships
19. Ability to be highly independent and to challenge and collaborate at a senior level across the business
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Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
20. Discretionary company bonus
21. Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
22. Company Car allowance of £8000
23. 15% colleague discount in store and online
24. Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream
25. 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas
26. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
27. Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves