Senior Finance Team Leader - Store Finance Support

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Job Description

Please note this role is a 12 month fixed term contract.

Are you customer driven and passionate about helping others? Do you have excellent attention to detail and drive insight to help support others to achieve the right results? If so, this role is for you!

Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager for Record to Report Operations, the primary responsibility of this role is to lead a team in delivering high-quality work related to cash loss reporting. This includes providing accurate reports to stores, regional teams, and the Accuracy & Loss department, as well as supporting these groups in investigating and resolving cash-related issues.

You'll lead and inspire a team of 5 to drive the integrity and control in the financial results and be a trusted business partner to the Finance teams who are based in our London Store Support Centre and stores nationwide
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:

• Positively contribute to all projects relevant to your area, ensuring a high quality of testing is performed by your team and post launch issues are raised and timely resolved
• Supporting Accuracy & Loss to achieve business goals in relation to new technology and the cash strategy
• Working with colleagues to ensure completeness of reporting and financial activity for all areas of their responsibility
• Develop different ways of working with the team on up coming finance transformations ensuring activity is aligned with new processes
• Setting the agenda for improvements in their processes and drive continuous improvement, including automation
• Working with finance systems colleagues to ensure Revenue to Cash systems are working as they should and resolve issues with the team quickly

Who You Are
Your skills and experience will include:

• Strong control mentality and ability to demonstrate a continuous improvement approach, and happy to challenge day to day activities to aid the transformation of the business
• Experience previously managing a team, with the ability to adapt and effectively lead the team and store colleagues (remotely) through change
• Good understanding of cash processes and ability to quickly pick up where data is not accurate, interrogating systems and store cash activity to resolve
• Great interpersonal skills within M&S colleagues and 3rd party providers and the ability to manage business partners expectations and requirements
• Good knowledge of Excel and Power BI

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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