Finance Manager - Meals, Frozen & Desserts

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Job Description

Summary

If you are passionate about providing strategic financial analysis, actionable insights, and decision support at the executive level, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Embrace the opportunity to lead and develop a talented finance team, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and drive professional 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's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality,

value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and

• many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.

• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!

• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.

• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.

• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.

• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.

• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.

• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.

• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Work with the Commercial teams to build and deliver Budgets and Forecasts with an understanding of short and longer terms performance trends against the Budget and Forecast through weekly trade reviews and monthly performance analysis reviews. Identify & deliver Risks & Opportunities

• Identify cost out opportunities in our products and support the delivery of these projects through meticulous financial analysis and governance. Tracking & influencing inflation impacts, ensuring we pay the right prices to our suppliers and identifying areas of opportunity in our pricing in store

• Assist the commercial team with the management of commodities, open book models and Joint Business Plans development with our suppliers. Tracking and optimisation of supplier income and growth incentives. Working with the commercial teams to assess and advise on commercial plans around usage of space, price and promotional activity and track the performance of this plan

• Support the analysis and tracking of weekly and monthly Commercial performance and Month end / Quarter end reporting through the delivery of Commercial analysis and insights to the Head of Trade and the broader Commercial Finance team

• Work with the Shared Service Centre to optimise and improve processes that impact the Commercial Finance team, ensuring that Commercial Risks for the area are understood and clear action plans in place to manage / mitigate. Supporting in developing robust processes around pricing governance, approval of benefits tracking

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Qualified Accountant(CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CA or equivalent)

• Commercial Business Partnering in a Retail or FMCG environment is preferred, with an understanding of sales to gross profit and a good commercial understanding of the business & market

• A strong influencer, with natural curiosity, who can provide commercial challenge alongside being a trusted business partner

• Experienced in Budgeting and forecasting, Business Case Appraisal and Management Accounts with Advanced Excel skills

• Ability to communicate with impact to senior management, business stakeholders and wider Finance teams

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

About Us

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team.

Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process and we are happy to talk smart/flexible working.

About the Team

Fully woven into the DNA of M&S, our Finance team plays a key role in setting the pace for our key business decisions, shaping our budgets, analysing our sales, managing costs and making sure our most vital statistics and data are absolutely accurate.

With a focus on adding value to all business areas by helping them make data-driven decisions and understand what is driving commercial performance - it's our job to make sure the right tools, processes, governance and ways of working are in place to support this.