Commercial Senior Finance Manager

About the role

This Senior Finance Manager role acts as a key financial partner to the Executive team, including the Office of the CEO, Legal, People, and Reward functions. The successful candidate will own core financial processes across Group Operations, including management reporting, budgeting, and strategic decision support. Reporting to the Head of Group Financial Planning, the role involves providing financial oversight and mentoring a Finance Business Partner.

Responsibilities

• Being a trusted finance business partner to key Group Operations functions
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including the Deputy-CEO, Chief People Officer, General Counsel and Head of Reward
• Leveraging a strong commercial and technical understanding of Ocado’s business to translate business strategy into financial plans through the preparation of Budgets and Outlooks
• Providing strategic financial support to your business partners, helping to identify financial risks with proposed mitigations and evaluating the financial impact of key cost initiatives
• Monitoring and reporting monthly spend against budget across partnered functions to support the business in delivering positive cash flow, proactively flagging risks and opportunities
• Identifying opportunities to streamline finance processes and reporting within Group Ops, improving the quality of data and insight delivered to stakeholders
• Providing support and guidance to the Finance Business Partner covering GTS, helping build consistency of approach across the Group Ops finance business partnering team

Required skills

• Financial reporting
• Management reporting
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• EPM
• Looker
• Advanced Excel

Nice to have

• Mentoring

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Pension with employer matching
• Share schemes
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• 15% discount at Ocado.com

About the Company

Ocado Group brings world-class automation to online grocery through its Ocado Smart Platform, which combines robotics, AI, and IoT within advanced Customer Fulfilment Centres.