Senior Finance Manager - Fashion, Home & Beauty - Insight & Analysis in London

Lead the commercial heartbeat of one of M&S’s most dynamic business areas! We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Finance Manager to step into a pivotal leadership role at the centre of our Fashion, Home & Beauty (FH&B) business. This is a high-impact opportunity to partner directly with senior leaders and shape performance across a major Business Unit. You’ll go beyond traditional finance, acting as a true commercial leader, bringing insight, challenge, and clarity to decision‑making in a fast‑paced, ever‑evolving environment. If you thrive on influencing strategy, driving performance, and unlocking value, this is your chance to make a real difference.

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

• Own end‑to‑end performance for the Business Unit, leading the P&L across sales, margin, costs, profitability, and cash, ensuring performance is understood, proactively managed, and continuously improved.
• Shape strategic decisions by translating market trends, customer behaviour, and trading performance into clear, actionable financial insight.
• Drive value creation across key commercial levers including pricing, promotions, markdowns, and cost control, delivering sustainable profit and cash outcomes.
• Lead investment and working capital discipline, guiding stock management, capital allocation, and commercial investments with a sharp focus on return and risk.
• Influence and challenge senior stakeholders, embedding accountability, raising performance standards, and building a culture of commercial rigour and continuous improvement.

Who you are

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or ACCA) with strong commercial finance leadership experience.
• Proven track record of influencing senior leaders and shaping outcomes in complex, fast‑paced environments.
• Highly commercial, with deep understanding of margin, investment, and cash drivers.
• Confident operating with pace, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
• Credible, curious, and commercially courageous, with a strong leadership presence.

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.