Commercial Finance Manager - Fashion, Home & Beauty (9m FTC)

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Summary

Step into one of the most energising parts of M&S: the Fashion, Home & Beauty Commercial Finance team. We sit at the heart of some of the most creative, fast‑moving and commercially important decisions in the business - shaping ranges, influencing trading strategy and unlocking growth across categories customers love. It’s a place where no two days look the same, where curiosity is encouraged, and where your insight has the power to directly impact what appears in our stores and online. If you want variety, pace and a visible role that truly moves the dial, you’ll feel right at home here.

We’re looking for an experienced and commercially astute Commercial Finance Manager to join our Fashion, Home & Beauty Commercial Finance team on a 9‑month FTC. This is a pivotal role supporting one of the most dynamic and fast‑growing categories at M&S: Beauty.

If you’re someone who thrives on insight, loves bringing clarity to complexity, and enjoys partnering with senior leaders to drive performance, this is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact.

As Finance Manager, you’ll act as a key strategic partner to the Beauty leadership team, helping shape decision‑making across trading, commercial strategy, and long‑term planning. You will own the P&L, provide sharp commercial insight, and drive financial performance across sales, profit, stock, and cash. This is a hands‑on, high‑visibility role where your analysis and recommendations will directly influence how we trade, grow and elevate the Beauty category.

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.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Own the P&L for M&S Beauty, partnering with senior leaders to deliver sales, profit, stock and cash targets, and analysing key drivers of sales, margin and profitability to provide proactive trading insight and inform decisions across pricing, product mix, promotions and new initiatives.

• Lead forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning for the Lingerie business, providing clear visibility on assumptions, risks and opportunities, embedding key initiatives into plans, and owning a robust rolling Risks & Opportunities process against Budget and latest forecast.

• Drive stock and working capital performance, optimising return on stock investment and ensuring stock levels and commitments align with customer demand, forward plans and commercial strategies.

• Deliver strategic insight and decision support by identifying trends, shaping forward decision‑making, and producing ad‑hoc analysis including scenario modelling, pricing evaluation, initiative appraisal and promotional effectiveness.

• Act as a strong cross‑functional business partner, working closely with Merchandising, Buying, Online, Marketing, Finance Ops and Customer Insight teams to lead commercial conversations, improve performance visibility, and enhance the efficiency, accuracy and scalability of Commercial Finance processes.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with relevant commercial finance experience.

• Strong FP&A capability, with experience in forecasting, budgeting and performance analysis.

• Highly analytical and curious, with great attention to detail and a passion for turning data into insight. Confident communicator, able to influence, challenge and build credibility with senior stakeholders.

• Commercially minded, with a strong understanding of how retail businesses operate.

• Advanced Excel skills; PowerPoint experience beneficial but not essential.

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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