Job Description
Overview
Ready to play a key role in one of the most exciting transformation programmes at M&S. This is a fantastic opportunity to join as a Finance Manager supporting Digital & Technology Finance and ERP Transformation, partnering at the heart of a major multi-year programme that includes SAP S/4 implementation and ECC decommissioning. You'll work closely with Finance Directors and senior Digital & Technology leaders, providing commercial insight, challenge and clarity to drive the right investment decisions and deliver long-term value. Operating in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, this role offers the chance to become a trusted business partner and critical friend, influencing at a senior level while helping shape the future of finance at M&S. 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.
Responsibilities
- Act as a Finance Business Partner to Digital & Technology and ERP Transformation, delivering strategic financial insight to support ExCo-level decision-making and investment choices
- Provide commercial challenge and cost transparency, ensuring strong control over programme spend, resource investment and total cost of ownership
- Partner cross-functionally to model benefits, assess initiatives and support business cases, tracking performance, OKRs and benefits realisation across programmes
- Support budgets, forecasts and long-term planning cycles, including monthly reporting, reforecasts and 5‑year strategic plans across transformation programmes
- Lead on financial governance, risk management and performance reporting, including insightful analysis, programme tracking and post-implementation reviews
Qualifications
- qualified accountant with several years' post-qualification experience in a commercial environment
- Experience in Technology Finance and/or SAP transformation, with an understanding of large-scale change programmes
- Strong collaborator who builds credible relationships and thrives in a matrix environment
- Commercially curious, analytical thinker with the ability to challenge, influence and partner at senior levels
- Proven ability to work at pace, manage competing priorities and drive change, with a willingness to challenge the status quo
Benefits
- 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
About our culture
Everyone's welcome – we are ambitious about the future of retail, disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We transform how we work together and offer our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. 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 let us know when completing your application so we can put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
