Join M&S and help shape the future of how we do business.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Internal Audit & Risk (IA&R) team at M&S, where you’ll be at the heart of shaping how we do business. You’ll work across a wide range of areas in the UK and internationally, giving you real breadth and variety in your role. As a trusted advisor, you’ll review and challenge how the business operates, support improvements to the control environment, and make a tangible impact during an exciting period of transformation.
What makes this role stand out is the mix of traditional audit delivery, augmented with data analytics, giving you exposure to every corner of the business from commercial operations to group functions. If you’re looking for a role that blends challenge, variety, and the chance to influence a leading brand’s journey, this is it.
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:
1. Lead and support audits across the business, delivering clear risk assessments managing fieldwork, adhering to scope but demonstrating flexibility when appropriate, and presenting practical recommendations.
2. Use data analytics (DA) to enhance audit insight, working with the team’s IA DA expert.
3. Engage stakeholders at all levels, presenting findings and driving improvements.
4. Contribute to audit planning, methodology evolution, and continuous improvement.
5. Working collaboratively with the risk team and other second line functions to bring insights and enhance the quality of audit work undertaken.
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
6. Excellent Internal Audit experience of a wide variety of industries, ideally with a professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or IIA) or QBE.
7. Strong understanding of risk and control methodologies.
8. Experience or interest in data analytics
9. Background in retail, programme assurance, or multi-channel environments is a plus, but not a requirement.
10. Willingness to travel occasionally (5–10%).
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:
11. 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
12. Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
13. Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
14. Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
15. Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
16. Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
17. Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
18. 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
19. 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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