Commercial Finance Manager - Technology

Job TitleCommercial Finance Manager - Technology
LocationAsda House
Employment TypeFull time
Contract TypePermanent
Hours Per Week37.5
Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

CategoryFinancial Planning and Analysis
Closing Date23 April 2025

“Everything about Asda” 

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone’s input. 

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant. 

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.  

This key Commercial Finance role is at the forefront of Asda’s new Technology function post separation from Walmart. The role encompasses Finance Business Partnering of Technology teams, as well as the wider Technology Leadership team. The role is at the heart of making key decisions and helping the business on its journey to deploy all its own systems and processes.

About the role:

This Commercial Finance Manager role supports the delivery of Asda’s Technology function through strong business partnering, financial control, forecasting accuracy, vendor/programme management and governance support

As a Commercial Finance Manager you will directly business partner 6 Technology Senior Directors to support critical investment / programme decisions, providing key insight and commercial context.

The new Technology function will be established completing full separation from Walmart, including working with a group of core vendors to design, build and deploy our new systems to run every part of the organisation and implement new processes to run the business across all functions.

Your Role:

• This role leads the business partnering, P&L and Capital management and forecasting for all of Asda’s new Technology function
• You will be required to challenge performance and work closely with key finance / programme stakeholders to improve accuracy to support better decision making
• You will play a key support role in the investment approval process, by liaising and challenging teams to produce high quality investment papers that maximise commercial performance and support the approval governance at the exec level, providing exposure to senior board members
• The successful candidate will work with stakeholders across the Technology function such as the Transformation Office, Technology Teams and People Teams alongside other Asda teams such as Legal and the wider Finance team.
• You will be responsible for challenging senior stakeholders to prioritise and control spend / resources, through regular commercial finance reviews with the Technology leads and escalating the key commercial decisions, risks and opportunities
• You will work with the Technology functions to understand, quantify and drive the realisation of the commercial benefits from landing the new systems, processes and operating models within the business.

"Let's find out about you"

• Strong commercial skill set and critical thinking, with the ability to evaluate commercial performance, identify risks and opportunities and support clear and robust plans.
• Strong organisational skills to lead the commercial finance agenda across multiple programmes, including the forecast process, driving efficiencies and improving financial control.
• Ability to provide accurate, timely information to a high quality with attention to detail
• Drive to be a ‘self-starter’ who looks to set direction and take ownership of complex issues to drive the right actions
• Confidence to challenge and influence stakeholders at senior levels of the organisation
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish professional, credible relations with both finance and non-finance colleagues, as well as great communication skills to ensure information is clearly articulated
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and analytical tool skills to support data-driven decisions
• Applicants should be a graduate (or equivalent) with strong academics and a professional accounting qualification with some post qualified experience

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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 to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of £5,700
• 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"