Full-time Head of Finance Operations & Systems - Argos, Sainsbury's

01Why join us

• Joining Argos as the Head of Finance Operations & Systems offers a unique
• opportunity to lead and shape the strategic direction of high-volume
• transactional finance services, driving effective service, cost efficiency, and

control outcomes across Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay. In this role, you

will have the chance to influence and develop a talented Finance Operations

team, ensuring alignment with wider business strategies and fostering an

inclusive, high-performing culture.

With a focus on delivering financial partnership, insight, and continuous

improvement, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening cash and working

capital performance while building strong partnerships across the organisation.

If you are a visionary leader with a passion for finance operations and a drive

to make a significant impact, this role provides a platform for professional

growth, strategic decision-making, and creating lasting value within a dynamic

and forward-thinking environment.

02What you'll do

• You will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and operational
• priorities for Finance Operations across Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay,
• translating broader business and Finance strategies into clear service, control,

cost, and transformation outcomes. You will lead and develop the Finance

Operations leadership team, ensuring effective resource allocation, building

succession, and fostering an inclusive, high-performing culture across onshore

and offshore teams.

Additionally, you will oversee the end-to-end performance and governance of the

outsourced delivery model, holding service partners accountable for cost,

service levels, controls, and continuous improvement to align processes with the

wider Finance and business strategy. Your role will involve providing financial

partnership, insights, and constructive challenges to leaders, managing an

effective financial control environment, and driving strong partnerships across

Finance, Technology, and the broader business to support the delivery of

strategic objectives.

03Who you are

• You are an accomplished finance leader with a professional accountancy
• qualification and extensive experience in overseeing transactional finance

operations, accounting controls, and high-volume process risk. Your ability to

set strategic direction, lead teams through change, and drive performance

improvements, coupled with your strong financial acumen and communication

skills, enables you to provide valuable insight, challenge senior leaders, and

ensure effective financial controls and compliance within the organisation. Your

commitment to talent development and fostering an inclusive, high-performing

culture plays a crucial role in achieving success in this key leadership

position.

04Essential Criteria

• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Proven experience leading finance operations, including oversight of
• transactional finance processes, financial controls and associated
• operational risks within a large, complex organisation – retail/FMCG is
• desirable
• Demonstrated experience managing outsourced or third-party service providers,
• including service governance, performance management and contract oversight
• Evidence of leading teams through significant operational, process or
• technology-enabled change, including prioritisation of resources and delivery
• of business outcomes
• Proven ability to interpret financial information, identify risks and
• opportunities, and influence senior stakeholders to support decision-making,
• while maintaining compliance with audit, regulatory and financial control
• requirements

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RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

06QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 65% of salary, depending on how we perform (in cash and shares).

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, 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. You'll

also receive a company car cash allowance unless you are going to travel 10,000

business miles in your role, then you'll be able to choose a car. 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 [https://www.sainsburys.jobs] for a range of our

benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).