Summary
M&S Brands is one of the most exciting growth opportunities across Fashion, Home & Beauty and Online. As Senior Finance Manager, you'll lead the finance partnership for the Brands business, helping shape the strategy for Partner Brands, Sports, Wholesale, Consignment, Dropship and future growth propositions. You'll provide commercial leadership and financial challenge to senior stakeholders while driving transformation that supports the evolution of Brands into a scaled, profitable and strategically differentiated growth platform for M&S.
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Lead the financial strategy, planning, budgeting and forecasting for the M&S Brands business, ensuring sustainable sales, profit and cash growth.
- Partner with the Director of Brands, Head of Brand Partnerships and wider leadership team to shape investment decisions, growth opportunities and long-term commercial strategy.
- Drive the financial evaluation of new propositions, partnerships, acquisitions, category expansion and customer growth initiatives.
- Lead business cases, profitability improvement programmes and strategic transformation initiatives, including operating model evolution and process simplification.
- Provide robust commercial challenge across Buying, Merchandising, Planning, Marketing, Supply Chain, Online and Finance teams while ensuring strong governance, controls and risk management
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or Equivalent)
- A commercially focused finance leader with experience partnering senior stakeholders in a complex retail, consumer or commercial environment.
- Strong strategic and analytical capability, with a track record of turning ambitious growth plans into commercially robust outcomes.
- Experience leading investment appraisals, business cases and transformation programmes that deliver measurable business value.
- Strong financial governance, planning and performance management expertise, combined with a passion for driving growth and continuous improvement.
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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Skills Required
- Qualified Accountant with ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent qualification
- Experience as a commercially focused finance leader partnering with senior stakeholders in a complex retail, consumer, or commercial environment
- Strong strategic and analytical capabilities
- Track record of converting growth plans into commercially robust outcomes
- Experience leading investment appraisals, business cases, and transformation programs
- Strong financial governance, planning, and performance management expertise
What We Do
At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do. Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovation and shaping the future of retail where our values drive every action. We stay close to customers and colleagues, always curious and connected. Our decisions are bold, our actions ambitious. Transparency is paramount, with straightforward, honest communication. We're constantly innovating, always striving for the best. Our focus is on aiming higher and winning together, combined with wise financial decisions to secure our future. Join us at M&S to shape the future of retail.
