Finance Manager

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role, partnering finance Finance, supporting both Group Reporting and Group FP&A to deliver accurate, timely and insightful financial information. As Finance Manager - Group Finance Systems, you’ll lead the delivery of core finance processes such as month-end and budget and forecast cycles, while also shaping the future of our finance reporting, analytics and planning landscape.

You’ll work closely with senior finance business partners, technology partners and your own team to ensure our systems are robust, fit for purpose and continuously improving. Balancing hands-on delivery with strategic leadership, this role offers the chance to influence how finance operates today and how it evolves for the future.

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What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead the consistent and successful delivery of business-as-usual finance systems activity, including month-end close and budget and forecast cycles.
• Own partner engagement throughout the month-end process, working across Finance and Technology to manage achievements, risks and results.
• Ensure finance systems and processes are set up and operated to provide accurate, complete and timely financial information, including intercompany processes.
• Partner closely with Group FP&A to plan and deliver smooth budget and forecast submissions, ensuring all downstream data flows are reconciled and reliable.
• Take ownership of systems and reporting change, leading projects from design through to UAT, release and business adoption, while driving simplification and continuous improvement.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Proven leadership and communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence and provide clarity across a wide range of business partners.
• Confidence operating in complex and ambiguous environments, bringing structure, pace and clear direction.
• Strong experience with finance and data systems, ideally including SAP, BPC and Microsoft Azure–based solutions.
• Demonstrable project or programme management experience, preferably within a finance or systems-led environment.
• A collaborative approach with a passion for improving finance reporting, analytics and planning through better processes and smarter use of systems.

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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