Finance Analyst - Sales to Cash in Salford

• Own key financial control and reconciliation activities, ensuring transactions are accurate, complete and in line with agreed policies and procedures.
• Prepare and maintain journals, and other financial adjustments, making sure supporting documentation is clear and audit-ready.
• Complete balance sheet reconciliations, investigate variances and resolve aged or unreconciled items with clear commentary and evidence.
• Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close activity, calling out risks or issues early and helping deadlines stay on track.
• Work with finance and non-finance business partners to resolve issues, improve processes and contribute to projects, change activity and continuous improvement.

  Part qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA)

• Demonstrable experience working in a finance role, with strong exposure to reconciliations, financial controls, month-end processes and stakeholder management.
• Strong reconciliation skills, with confidence investigating variances across systems and data sources such as SAP, BW/CATS, BlackLine, Power BI and external acquirer portals.
• A good understanding of journals, controls, month-end close and audit evidence within a finance operations environment.
• Confidence working with high-volume transactional data, analysing information and drawing clear conclusions from incomplete or inconsistent sources.
• Strong business partnering skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across Finance, Tech, Master Data, AR, y commercial teams, controls and external providers.
• An organised, detail-focused approach, with strong written communication skills and intermediate to advanced Excel capability; experience with SAP, BW, BlackLine, Power BI would be beneficial.

  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
• 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
• Full study support for CIMA/ACCA/ACA

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.