Senior Finance Manager - Fashion, Home & Beauty - FP&A

Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Manager - FP&A to step into a pivotal leadership role within the Fashion, Home & Beauty (FH&B) Finance team at M&S, a high-profile, fast-moving part of the business where Finance plays a critical role in driving performance and shaping strategic decisions.

This is a standout opportunity to operate at the heart of financial integrity, discipline and control, ensuring that actuals, forecasts and plans are not only accurate and robust, but truly trusted across FH&B. You’ll provide the single version of the truth that underpins trading conversations and senior decision-making.

As a key leader in the team, you’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across a diverse and evolving business unit, bringing real rigour to the numbers while influencing how performance is understood and delivered.

If you’re looking for a role where you can combine technical excellence, strong leadership and real commercial impact, with high visibility across one of M&S’s most important divisions, this is a fantastic opportunity to make your mark.

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:

• Managing a high performing team of 3

• Own end-to-end FP&A processes, ensuring accurate, controlled and auditable actuals, forecasts and plans, and acting as the single point of accountability for financial integrity

• Lead the full planning cycle (budget, forecast and long-term outlook), setting clear standards, consistent assumptions and financial direction for the business

• Oversee headcount and central cost management, ensuring strong governance, transparency and trusted financial data

• Drive FP&A governance and best practice, strengthening controls, closing gaps and ensuring outputs meet executive and audit standards

• Lead working capital performance and develop a high-performing FP&A team, building capability, driving rigour and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)

• Strong experience in FP&A or performance management within a complex organisation

• Deep technical expertise across forecasting, planning, governance and working capital

• Proven ability to own financials end-to-end and defend them under scrutiny

• Proven experience leading, managing and developing teams, building high performance and accountability

• Confidence influencing and operating at senior Finance leadership level

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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