Hybrid Senior Finance Manager – Store Performance

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About the role

  • Senior Finance Manager driving store performance and profitability at M&S. Collaborating with various retail teams to optimize reporting and enhance commercial decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Improve store profitability through actionable, data-led insight, identifying trends, risks and cost drivers, and shaping commercial and operational decision-making across Retail.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Food and Fashion, Home & Beauty, leading performance deep dives and surfacing key themes for divisional and Retail Leadership reviews.
  • Elevate store reporting and P&L understanding, setting the vision for reporting improvements, driving monthly CMR enhancements, and supporting robust planning and performance targets.
  • Strengthen store capability and reputation management, spending time in stores, presenting at regional meetings, upskilling leaders on end-to-end profit, and supporting analysis across waste, loss and operational performance.
  • Lead people, innovation and continuous improvement, developing a high-performing analyst, driving automation and digitisation of financial processes, and sharing best practice across the wider finance community.

Requirements

  • Robust financial and technical expertise, including being a fully qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA)
  • Strong budgeting and forecasting skills, and confidence in financial planning and analysis.
  • Strong commercial business partnering experience (ideally Retail or FMCG), with excellent commercial acumen, a solid understanding of retail market drivers, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • High data fluency, including handling large datasets, data visualisation, advanced Excel capability (essential), and desirable experience with Power Query or SQL.
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to create impact at all levels, lead with a proactive, solutions-driven mindset, and develop high-performing teams.
  • A strong grasp of finance processes and controls, including business case appraisal, governance, system understanding, and the agility to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities.

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

Job title

Senior Finance Manager – Store Performance

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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