As Finance Manager - Technical, you will play a key role in strengthening governance, improving financial processes and providing high quality technical accounting support that enables confident decision making across the business. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Controllership, you will help build the future of controllership at M&S. You will combine technical expertise with commercial curiosity, excellent judgement, and a continuous improvement approach.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong qualified accountant who enjoys solving complex problems, improving processes and influencing how finance supports a fast moving, high profile business area.
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Lead the technical reporting of store closure costs, ensuring high quality outputs, strong process documentation and a robust controls framework.
- Drive the ongoing development and improvement of core financial models and reporting processes to enhance accuracy, efficiency and insight.
- Maintain clear and consistent accounting principles around adjusting items, ensuring strong governance and integrity of financial reporting.
- Provide technical accounting support to the controllership team and wider business, helping to navigate new projects and complex accounting matters.
- Lead, coach and develop a direct report while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and financial discipline.
Who you are
Your skills will include:
- Qualified accountant (ACA) with post qualified experience and strong technical accounting capability.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS, UK adopted IAS and FRS 102, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a practical business environment.
- Excellent attention to detail, alongside a curious and analytical approach to identifying risks, root causes and opportunities for improvement.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and tell a clear story through the numbers.
- Proven experience of balance sheet accountability, financial controls and involvement in projects or process improvement initiatives.
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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