Job Description

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Job Title

Senior Manager Food Commercial Finance###

Location

Asda House###

Employment Type

Full time###

Contract Type

Permanent###

Hours per Week

37.5###

Salary

Competitive Salary plus benefits

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Category

Financial Planning and Analysis###

Closing Date

4 September 2025



We're recruiting for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager. In this role you'll be a true Senior Finance Business Partner to our Food Commercial teams making the right decisions and playing a critical role in identifying, recommending, and concluding on business opportunities to create value. The role provides leadership across the Finance team to drive it's Transformation agenda, including maximising opportunity from evolving digital tools and analytical methodologies.

Your role

Develop solutions based on an understanding of the business environment and objectives Identify and quantify commercial risks / opportunities, and drive the implementation of plans which mitigate risk and deliver strong commercial performance Interprets and applies key financial indicators to make better business decisions, using sophisticated analysis and modelling to determine the returns and risks associated with investments; consistently makes wise choices in this area. Support the preparation of robust and transparent business cases, ensuring activity is consistent with the agreed strategic direction - identifying and quantifying associated costs, benefits, risks, and funding solutions Challenge data integrity in order to ensure quality and accuracy Develop and propose annual business plans for a given area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy. Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals Work closely with the Tax and Treasury teams, Controllership and Commercial Finance teams 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

"Let's find out about you"

Be a qualified accountant Have a strategic mindset and can see ahead to future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies Have in depth commercial understanding of the Retail market, ideally with Food Ability to makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems Have strong analytical and strategic capability Demonstrate your experience in leadership, coaching and team development Able to communicate complex matters simply and effectively Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to build strong trusting relationships 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:

Discretionary company bonus Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%) Company Car allowance of 8000 15% colleague discount in store and online Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream 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 Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated 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