Senior Finance Analyst - International

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Job Description

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:

• Key player in the International Finance transformation strategy working closely with senior business partners in London, motivating changes across systems and reporting in a complex structure
• Cultivate a culture of continuous improvement within your team. Together, you'll optimise our services, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in every task.
• Monthly analysis of actuals vs. forecast with senior business partner level commentary highlighting any Risk/Opportunity.
• Review opportunities to improve and drive efficiencies across planning and reporting processes, including implementing new systems where appropriate.
• Lead a team of 3 dedicated analysts, nurturing their development and managing their performance. Your team will consist of both part-qualified and fully qualified accountants, ensuring a diverse and enriching environment

Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:

• Outstanding business partnering skills with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels; confident leading meetings/calls, providing challenge to colleagues and managing workload.
• Knowledge around FP&A processes, accounting principles, and finance operations (SAP focused).
• Highly organised with exceptional time management and prioritisation skills. An ability to manage a complex and varied workload to tight deadlines is required.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills (must be CIMA, ACCA or ACA finalist). Using this knowledge and experience to make management decisions and judgement for the benefit of the business.
• Strategic skills; able to identify and challenge areas of improvement in cost management or forecasting processes. There are many business partners associated with this role and there will be a need to work collaboratively with each of them

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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