At M&S, we’re transforming our International business and creating exciting opportunities to drive profitable growth across our owned markets. As Senior Finance Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping financial strategy, influencing decisions at a senior level, and partnering with teams across multiple markets to maximise performance and deliver sustainable growth.
This is a highly visible commercial finance role where you'll combine strategic thinking, financial rigour and strong business partnering skills to create value across our International business. 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 doYour key accountabilities will include:
- Own the financial management of our Owned Markets, leading budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking, balance sheet management and financial controls to deliver revenue and profit targets.
- Partner closely with market, commercial, supply chain, finance and compliance teams to drive profitable growth, support transformation initiatives and deliver actionable financial insight.
- Develop robust financial models and performance analysis to assess opportunities, identify risks and influence key business decisions.
- Produce weekly trade analysis and monthly and quarterly reporting, using data and analytics to improve performance and recommend corrective actions where required.
- Support strategic growth projects, drive continuous improvement across financial processes and ensure compliance with group financial, regulatory and tax governance requirements.
Your skills and experience will include:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience, ideally within an international, retail or FMCG environment.
- Strong commercial finance and business partnering experience, coupled with a solid understanding of financial control and governance.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insight.
- A confident communicator who can influence stakeholders at all levels and build effective cross-functional relationships.
- A forward-thinking and commercially minded finance leader with a continuous improvement mindset and the curiosity, courage and tenacity to challenge and drive change.
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
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.
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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Significant post-qualification experience
- Experience within international, retail or FMCG environment
- Strong commercial finance and business partnering experience
- Solid understanding of financial control and governance
- Experience developing financial models and performance analysis
- Producing weekly trade analysis and monthly/quarterly reporting
- Excellent analytical skills to translate complex data into actionable insight
- Confident communicator with stakeholder influencing skills
- Continuous improvement mindset and ability to drive change
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.
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