Summary
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 creating and protecting value for all business areas by helping them make data-driven decisions and understand performance - it's our job to make sure the right tools, processes, governance, and ways of working are in place to support this.
You'll be leading the Digital & Technology (D&T) PMO team within Record to Report, key to the role will be engaging with key Finance business partners (both Finance and non-Finance, an outsourced technology provider and our Reporting & Analytics team).
All the details
What's in it for you Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special
- 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
- A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we're proud of at M&S.
- Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave - that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
- Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
- A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
- Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support - this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes
- Family friendly policies to support life's most important milestones including parental leave and neo-natal
What you'll do Your key accountabilities will include:
- Leading and encouraging a team of at least 7 reports, to deliver high quality outputs, driving a continuous improvement mentality and a can-do attitude
- Ensuring the large volume of tasks and queries are managed effectively, within a timely resolution, and aligned to the timetable key to successful delivery
- Develop the team to work collaboratively with the PMO office in London and our outsourced IT provider to ensure the financials are reflected accurately
- Strong Business Partner engagement to facilitate a collaborative working environment
- Lead the team to support the business transformation with the delivery and execution of key projects using standard processes and automation and understand priorities
Who you are Your skills and experience will include:
- Part or fully Qualified Accountant
- Experience of managing and mentoring a team
- A strong control mentality with a continuous improvement approach
- Build and maintain great relationships and drive a collaborative approach
- Good understanding of standardisation of processes and using systems, and the impact these have on ways of working
Everyone's welcome M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail 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're an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.
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 flexible working.
If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
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