Finance Manager - Property FP&A

Join M&S as a Finance Manager - Property FP&A, a high-profile role at the heart of our Property Finance team. You'll play a key role in shaping budgets, forecasts and long-term plans while providing insight and challenge to senior stakeholders across Property, Retail and Group Finance. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified finance professional who enjoys partnering with the business, driving performance and influencing strategic decision-making.

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 you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead the Property budgeting, forecasting and three-year planning processes, coordinating across Group FP&A, Business Unit Finance teams and Shared Services to ensure plans are delivered accurately and on time.
• Provide robust financial insight on costs, working capital and cash flow performance, identifying key trends, risks and opportunities while continuously improving forecast accuracy.
• Business partner senior stakeholders across Property, supporting decision-making through clear financial analysis and translating complex data into meaningful actions.
• Lead the Property Capex cost-out programme, partnering with Store Development and Procurement teams to track delivery, challenge performance and drive sustainable efficiencies.
• Identify and deliver opportunities to reduce operating costs through actionable insight, while coaching analysts and building strong relationships across Finance and the wider business.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• A qualified accountant with strong FP&A, forecasting or business partnering experience and the ability to translate operational activity into financial impact.
• Commercially minded, with excellent analytical skills and a track record of identifying risks, opportunities and performance improvement initiatives.
• An influential communicator who can build credibility with senior stakeholders and confidently challenge where required to drive better outcomes.
• Experienced in presenting complex financial information to leadership teams in a clear, concise and compelling way.
• Adaptable and resilient, with strong Excel skills and a willingness to embrace change, improve processes and work collaboratively across functions.

What’s in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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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