Sainsbury's
Head of Finance Transformation - SAP SME (P2P) (18M FTC)
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Head of Finance Transformation - SAP SME (P2P) (18M FTC)
Location: Flexible (London, Coventry or Manchester / Homework option)
About the Team
As part of the Commercial Transformation programme, the Embedded Finance team sits at the core of one of the most ambitious and high-profile change initiatives across the business. This programme focuses on:
- Delivering next-generation technology
- Streamlining financial processes
- Enabling insight-led decision-making.
This role represents a rare chance to lead a transformation reshaping how Finance operates organisation-wide. You’ll collaborate with Finance, Technology, and Commercial leaders to design a future-proof finance function that enhances:
- Performance
- Control
- Strategic strategic decision-making.
You’ll join a dynamic environment where your work delivers immediate visibility and long-term impact, fostering a simpler, more connected, and effective Finance landscape.
The Role
A key leadership position within Finance Transformation, this opportunity allows you to shape and deliver critical components of the SAP S/4HANA programme.
Your core responsibilities include:
- Partnering with senior stakeholders across:
- Financial Accounting & Control
- Financial Operations
- Commercial Finance
- Transformation to define and deliver the future state of Finance.
- Leading the design and implementation of end-to-end financial processes, reporting, and controls—foundations for long-term business operation.
- Balancing delivery with strategic influence:
- Challenging assumptions
- Shaping programme decisions
- Ensuring alignment between operational efficiency and financial governance.
- Translating complex finance and SAP requirements into practical, scalable solutions that meet business needs.
- Collaborating with technology and change teams to embed solutions through:
- Stakeholder engagement
- Training
- User adoption.
- Overseeing a small team while influencing broader delivery teams including data, reporting, and external partners.
- Navigating multi-workstream complexity:
- Identifying risks and opportunities
- Ensuring high-quality, robust outcomes.
- Working closely with senior leaders, offering tangible impact on:
- Financial performance
- The Future of Finance partnership across the organisation.
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About You – Ideal Candidate
You’re a strategic finance leader equipped with:
- Deep technical expertise in finance systems and processes, paired with a big-picture perspective—focusing on value creation through transformation.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving ecosystem, balancing:
- Strategic vision
- Hands-on delivery.
- Ability to thrive in complexity, making judgements to:
- Prioritise effectively
- Drive progress asymmetrically.
- Strong cross-functional relationship-building, confidently influencing senior stakeholders:
- Providing insight
- Offering challenge
- Guiding direction.
- Passion for meaningful, sustainable change—not just system implementation, but improving how Finance operates and delivers value.
- A collaborative, resilient approach, supporting teams through transformation to ensure solutions are practical, embedded, and enduring.
Essentials
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- Professionally qualified accountant:
- Examples: ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
- Proven experience in:
- Delivering finance transformation programmes or system implementations involving SAP Finance.
- Deep SAP S/4HANA Procure-to-Pay (P2P) expertise:
- Purchase orders
- Goods receipts
- Invoice verification
- Account determination
- Inventory postings
- Moving average price/standard price valuation
- Stock movements
- Financial impact of stock valuation on the General Ledger (GL).
- Experience leading future-state process design, including:
- Translating business requirements into SAP designs
- Challenging solution options
- Managing design decisions
- Supporting testing
- Ensuring solutions align with finance, commercial, and operational goals.
- Cross-functional agility:
- Working confidently with teams in Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Technology, and external partners.
- Translating complex SAP/finance topics into clear business language for leadership and delivery teams.
- Proven knowledge of:
- General Ledger
- Procure-to-Pay
- Accounts Payable/Receivable (AR/AP)
- Financial reporting.
- Ability to:
- Influence senior stakeholders, including presenting to leadership.
- Document business processes clearly and auditably.
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