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 to restore the M&S business and brand, to deliver long-term, sustainable, profitable growth for our investors, colleagues and wider communities.

As an Internal Audit Data Analyst in our Internal Audit & Risk (IA&R) team you will be supporting both core operations and the ongoing M&S transformation by providing independent and objective feedback to the Audit and Executive Committees on key risks and the effectiveness of mitigating controls.

You'll be doing this by designing and delivering project specific data analysis, assessing processes and documenting issues, and following up on audit actions resulting from analytics work and internal audits.

Key accountabilities:

• Applying established knowledge to deliver appropriate data analytics techniques within internal audits and developing specific data routines for analytics work
• Engaging key business partners during audit activities, providing regular progress updates
• Maintaining quality and integrity standards and delivering against functional critical metric targets
• Maintaining regular contact with action owners to obtain progress updates and drive timely completion of audit actions
• Assisting the development of the audit plan for the year by proposing relevant audits and analytics work for inclusion
• Actively developing positive relationships with a wide variety of business contacts to gain knowledge and insight into the issues affecting the business

Key Skills:

• Practical knowledge of visualisation tools e.g. Power BI
• Demonstratable knowledge of the use of coding to manipulate data e.g. SQL, Python, R
• Accounting or Audit qualification (ACA/ACCA or IIA) (desirable)Knowledge of audit methodologies and audit report writing (desirable)
• Superb communication, both written and verbal
• Great teammate and can build and maintaining positive working relationships across all areas and levels in the business
• Commercially minded and can make practical recommendations that will drive value
• Excellent problem-solving skills, able to challenge where necessary
• Ability to adapt to fresh, forward thinking and practices

Key Benefits:

• A mix of home and office working 
• Digital and Data learning - join a growing data community
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + 1 celebration day
• 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.