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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 standardsLead 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