Finance Manager - Digital & Tech - Finance Transformation

Summary

Ready to play a key role in one of the most exciting transformation programmes at M&S?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join as a Finance Manager supporting Digital & Technology Finance and ERP Transformation, partnering at the heart of a major multi-year programme including SAP S/4 implementation and ECC decommissioning. You’ll work closely with Finance Directors and senior Digital & Technology leaders, providing commercial insight, challenge and clarity to drive the right investment decisions and deliver long-term value. 

Operating in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, this role offers the chance to become a trusted business partner and critical friend, influencing at a senior level while helping shape the future of finance at M&S.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What you’ll do 

Your key accountabilities will included:

• Acting as a Finance Business Partner to Digital & Technology and ERP Transformation, delivering strategic financial insight to support ExCo-level decision-making and investment choices 
• Providing commercial challenge and cost transparency, ensuring strong control over programme spend, resource investment and total cost of ownership
• Partnering cross-functionally to model benefits, assess initiatives and support business cases, tracking performance, OKRs and benefits realisation across programmes 
• Supporting budgets, forecasts and long-term planning cycles, including monthly reporting, reforecasts and 5-year strategic plans across transformation programmes 
• Leading on financial governance, risk management and performance reporting, including insightful analysis, programme tracking and post-implementation reviews

Who you are 

Your skills and experience will include:

• A qualified accountant with several years’ post-qualification experience in a commercial environment 
• Experience in Technology Finance and/or SAP transformation, with an understanding of large-scale change programmes
• A strong collaborator who builds credible relationships and thrives in a matrix environment 
• A commercially curious, analytical thinker with the ability to challenge, influence and partner at senior levels 
• Proven ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and drive change, with a willingness to challenge the status quo

What’s in it for you? 

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours 
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome 

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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