Summary
Lead the commercial heartbeat of one of M&S’s most dynamic business areas!
We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to step into a pivotal leadership role at the centre of our Fashion, Home & Beauty (FH&B) business.
This is a high-impact opportunity to partner directly with senior leaders and shape performance across a major Business Unit. You’ll go beyond traditional finance, acting as a true commercial leader, bringing insight, challenge, and clarity to decision‑making in a fast‑paced, ever‑evolving environment.
If you thrive on influencing strategy, driving performance, and unlocking value, this is your chance to make a real difference.
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
- Own end‑to‑end performance for the Business Unit, leading the P&L across sales, margin, costs, profitability, and cash, ensuring performance is understood, proactively managed, and continuously improved
- Shape strategic decisions by translating market trends, customer behaviour, and trading performance into clear, actionable financial insight
- Drive value creation across key commercial levers including pricing, promotions, markdowns, and cost control, delivering sustainable profit and cash outcomes
- Lead investment and working capital discipline, guiding stock management, capital allocation, and commercial investments with a sharp focus on return and risk
- Influence and challenge senior stakeholders, embedding accountability, raising performance standards, and building a culture of commercial rigour and continuous improvement
Who you are
- Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or ACCA) with strong commercial finance leadership experience
- Proven track record of influencing senior leaders and shaping outcomes in complex, fast‑paced environments
- Highly commercial, with deep understanding of margin, investment, and cash drivers
- Confident operating with pace, ambiguity, and competing priorities
- Credible, curious, and commercially courageous, with a strong leadership presence
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
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