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 a Senior Finance Manager in our FP&A team you'll be the finance lead for the corporate costs and transformation programmes and be accountable for business partnering and providing insight to senior leaders in these areas.

Key Accountabilities:

• A proactive business partner to support and challenge costs areas to ensure they’re delivering against their costs, making valuable contributions when needed
• Responsible for accurate and timely monthly cost reporting, forecasting and planning across the corporate cost areas: HR, Finance, Corp Comms, Corp Gov, Strategy & Plan A, including opex, working capital and cash positions
• Presenting at quarterly review meetings with the CEO, CFO, and business partner, outlining the key risks and opportunities in the cost areas and progress on the transformation programmes
• Proactively supporting business partners on any business cases for capex or opex requests in the corporate areas. Ensuring the financials are robust and the benefits are achievable and tracked. Leading the post implementation review process to update the business on how the cases are tracking against targets
• Business partner with the Exec Reward team to model scenarios for the annual bonus scheme
• Tracking and reporting support office staffing, engaging with the finance teams and HR to accurately report and comment on the movements and risks or opportunities
• Bring a commercial mentality to identify areas of potential cost saving initiatives and more efficient processes that could be adopted
• Coaching and supporting of two ‘dotted line’ reports in the Business Service Center

Key skills:

• Qualified accountant with experience in a commercial environment
• Commercial awareness and able to challenge and add insight
• Excellent communication skills to enable business partnering of senior non-financial colleagues
• Advanced excel capabilities and good PowerPoint skills
• Proactive self-starter with a collaborative approach and can build a strong network with colleagues
• A drive for continuous improvement: implementing or coordinating changes to processes which improve efficiency and outputs
• A great team member, but also happy to work independently on own initiative

What you’ll get from the role:

• Frequent exposure to finance and corporate leadership
• Oversight of the overall corporate strategy and insight into transformation programmes happening across the support office
• Development of a broad network across finance and the wider business – with lots of opportunity for cross-functional working

Key Benefits:

• Flexible working approach, with a balance of being in the office and working from home
• 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.