Senior Finance Analyst - Fashion, Home & Beauty Transformation

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to join as a Senior Finance Analyst within Fashion, Home & Beauty (FH&B) Transformation, partnering at the heart of a high-impact programme focused on improving profitability, modernising the supply chain and accelerating our omnichannel proposition.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across Transformation, Space Planning and Finance, providing commercial insight, challenge and clarity to drive the right investment decisions and deliver meaningful cost-out benefits.

Operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, this role offers the opportunity to become a trusted business partner and influence high-profile decisions, while helping shape the future of FH&B at M&S.

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 do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Partnering across FH&B Transformation, Space Planning and Finance to provide insightful analysis, challenge and decision support, while identifying opportunities to drive additional value and savings through cross-functional collaboration
• Owning project financials end-to-end, from analysis and business case development through to approval, ensuring robust, deliverable and value-focused investment decisions
• Tracking transformation delivery, cost-out benefits and investment performance, providing clear reporting on KPIs, spending control and overall delivery
• Managing budgets and approved spend, alongside supporting governance and assurance activity including post-investment reviews (PIRs) to strengthen future decision-making
• Leading the weekly FH&B Investment Committee and supporting month-end cost-out, capex and performance reporting to enable informed leadership decisions

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen, ideally with retail or industry experience in a fast-paced, complex environment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate insights and influence a wide range of stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Highly analytical, with experience using data to deliver accurate, insightful and value-driven analysis, alongside a strong understanding of industry trends and customer drivers
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to enhance controls, processes and governance frameworks
• Forward-thinking and proactive, able to anticipate future requirements, work independently and collaboratively, and take ownership of delivering results

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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