Senior finance manager - food marketing and sparks

Summary

This is a brilliant opportunity to step into a visible, strategic role within Food Finance – shaping decisions, influencing senior stakeholders and playing a key part in delivering M&S's growth ambitions.

It's an exciting time to join M&S as we continue to transform and grow our Food business. We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager – Business Partnering to play a critical role at the heart of Food and Sparks, partnering senior leaders to drive commercial performance, shape investment decisions and deliver meaningful financial insight.

This is a high impact role where you'll combine strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery, working across Food Marketing, Sparks and the wider leadership team to influence decisions, optimise performance and support long‑term growth.

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:

• Partner with Food Marketing and Sparks leadership to drive commercial performance, leading ROI analysis and influencing investment decisions.
• Act as the finance lead for Sparks, building complex financial models and supporting roadmap, business cases and senior stakeholder decision‑making.
• Lead monthly financial close and forecasting cycles, ensuring clear insight on risks, opportunities and performance against budget.
• Deliver integrated forecasts, budgets and long‑range plans that balance stretch with deliverability across the Food business.
• Own and enhance reporting (including Power BI), ensuring data integrity and delivering clear, actionable insights to ExCo and senior stakeholders.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post‑qualification experience.
• Proven experience in business partnering, FP&A or similar within a fast‑paced retail, FMCG or commercial environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and tell a clear, compelling financial story.
• Experience managing and developing others, with a passion for building high‑performing teams.
• Highly analytical and strategic, with strong financial modelling skills and experience using reporting tools such as Power BI.

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.

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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