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

With a focus on adding new 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.

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team play a pivotal role, supporting the business in making critical decisions, and we're looking for a Finance Analyst to join this team. This is a brilliant opportunity for a strong communicator; someone who enjoys a varied role and who works with a continuous improvement approach. We want you to challenge our current ways of working and come up with improvements to make us work more efficiently.

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.
• 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 & free access to the UnMind App as well as many other schemes.

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Preparation of regular and ad-hoc journals
• Delivery of accurate cost reporting and variance analysis - driving a ‘no surprise’ culture
• Support the FP&A team with monthly and quarterly reporting for the whole business.
• Responsible for budgeting/forecasting of your area’s leading to variance analysis and commentary to guide the business to make key strategic decisions.
• Driving an increased level of insight through reporting and analysis to challenge current assumptions, find opportunities and deliver business benefit

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Excellent communication skills working with senior business partners
• Outstanding partner management / business partnering skills with the ability to build relationships and influence partners at all levels
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking to enhance business decisions and potential risks and opportunities.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Experience of using SAP and BOARD (desirable)

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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 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.