Senior Finance Manager – Fashion, Home & Beauty – Insight & Analysis

Summary

Lead the commercial heartbeat of one of M&S’s most dynamic business areas!

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?

• 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

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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