Commercial Senior Finance Manager

<p><strong>About Us</strong></p> <p>We are Ocado Group, and we're bringing world-class automation to online grocery. Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) combines cutting-edge robotics, AI, and IoT within our advanced CFCs (Customer Fulfilment Centres). We've mastered the single pick, transforming online delivery for our global partners. Join us and be part of a team pushing the boundaries of retail technology.</p> <p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>This is a high-visibility Senior Finance Manager opportunity to embed directly within Ocado’s Executive team, acting as a key financial partner to the Office of the CEO, Legal and Business Integrity, People, and Reward.&nbsp;</p> <p>Working alongside senior leadership -including the Deputy CEO, Chief People Officer, General Counsel, and Head of Reward-you will own core financial processes across Group Operations, driving monthly management reporting, the annual budget cycle, and rolling outlooks while providing strategic decision support, cost-initiative challenge, and cash flow optimisation.&nbsp;</p> <p>Reporting directly to the Head of Group Financial Planning, you will gain invaluable exposure to Group FP&amp;A, Capital Markets, and Investor Relations, while also mentoring a Finance Business Partner to champion consistency and excellence across the Group Ops finance team.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Being a trusted finance business partner to key Group Operations functions</li> <li>Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including the Deputy-CEO, Chief People Officer, General Counsel and Head of Reward</li> <li>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&nbsp;</li> <li>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&nbsp;</li> <li>Monitoring and reporting monthly spend against budget across partnered functions to support the business in delivering positive cash flow, proactively flagging risks and opportunities</li> <li>Identifying opportunities to streamline finance processes and reporting within Group Ops, improving the quality of data and insight delivered to stakeholders</li> <li>Providing support and guidance to the Finance Business Partner covering GTS, helping build consistency of approach across the Group Ops finance business partnering team</li> </ul> <p><strong>About you</strong></p> <ul> <li>Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with post-qualification experience in an accounting or a finance business partnering role</li> <li>Proficient in building trusted relationships with senior finance and/or non-finance stakeholders, including at Exec or Exec-1 level</li> <li>Strong financial and management reporting skills, including ownership of budgeting and forecasting (Outlook) cycles</li> <li>Confident using financial systems and BI tools (e.g. EPM, Looker or equivalent) and advanced Excel</li> <li>High levels of resilience and positivity, with exceptional attention to detail</li> <li>Self-driven to both begin and complete tasks, comfortable operating with a lean team and ambiguous or evolving scope</li> <li>Proactive drive for continuous improvement and automation to yield process efficiencies and elevate output quality&nbsp;</li> <li>Experience supporting or mentoring more junior finance colleagues (desirable)</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we offer</strong><strong><br></strong></p> <p>We believe in supporting our people with meaningful, flexible benefits that prioritise well-being and work-life balance. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:</p> <ul> <li>Time to recharge:<br>25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.</li> <li>Health &amp; wellbeing:<br>Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.</li> <li>Family-first policies:<br>22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave</li> <li>Financial support:<br>Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave &amp; BAYE), and interest-free loans for train tickets.</li> <li>Commuter perks:<br>Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.</li> <li>Exclusive discounts:<br>15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).</li> </ul> <p><br><br>#LI-JK3</p> <p>#LI-HYBRID</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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