M&S is British value-for-money retailer focused on own label businesses, including Food, Clothing & Home and Bank & Services. Today, we operate a family of businesses, selling high-quality, great-value own-brand products in the UK and internationally, from 1,509 stores and over 100 websites globally. Together our 70,000 colleagues across our stores, support centres, warehouses and supply chain serve nearly 30 million customers each year.

We are on our biggest ever transformation programme, with the objective restore the M&S business and brand, to deliver long-term, sustainable, profitable growth for our investors, colleagues and wider communities.

You will be joining our newly formed Finance Reporting and Analytics department. The team was created to provide guidance and support to Business Partners, across multiple Finance teams, in the areas of reporting, management information and Financial Planning & Analytics. You'll be working alongside a Reporting Delivery Lead, and be accountable for providing sophisticated analysis to help drive decision making within the M&S.

Key accountabilities:

• Delivery of Weekly Trading Reporting of sales and costs across the UK Business
• Working closely with the Finance teams to plan and develop new reporting and analysis to lend insight for an ever evolving arm of M&S
• Development and maintenance of Forecasting and Budgeting processes, ensuring current trends and specific requirements are considered.
• Utilise Finance systems to drive control and process efficiency, primarily with the development of Power BI modelling to standardise and improve laborious processes
• Design and maintain new models and processes that serve the needs of the business area, ensuring data is accurate and certified for use
• Work with the Technology Support teams (SAP, Business Intelligence) and the Analytics Improvement Managers in the team to improve our financial and commercial reports
• Implement and adhere to service level agreements for all key outputs
• Work with Reporting Delivery Leads and other Finance Business Partners to define and maintain a fit for purpose reporting catalogue that provides insightful information to support decisions
• Promote a continuous improvement of the reporting catalogue for your business area, advising where new requirements can be met by amending/stopping existing reporting
• Provide training to the Finance Business Partnering team on how to access the reporting system is a self-service way
• Keep up to date with new reporting and analytics developments across Finance

Key Skills:

• Open and committed to learning how to use our reporting and planning applications:Power BI, Business Objects. You don’t need to be a technical developer, but, having received training, you should be confident in running existing reports and building new reports on existing dataset
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong working relationships with key business partners
• Experience of improvement of processes
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience with financial reporting and an understanding of P&Ls and journals

Key Benefits:

• Flexible working approach, with a balance of being in the office and working from home
• Travel - Free car parking at our Salford Quays office, ‘cycle to work’ and season ticket loans
• 20% discount on M&S products
• A range of wellbeing support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and immediate family)
• 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.  We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. If you consider yourself to have a disability or learning difficulty which means you are unable to complete the application process online, please get in touch either by phone on 0345 300 3725 or by email recruitment.online@marksandspencer.com so we can make alternative arrangements for you.