Finance Manager - Third Party Brands in Salford

We’re looking for a commercially curious and proactive Finance Manager. This person will play a pivotal role in crafting how we work with our Brands partners and third-party fashion suppliers selling through our platforms. Sitting at the heart of our Continuous Improvement team, you’ll own the end‑to‑end finance change roadmap for Brands, ensuring processes, data and controls are designed right first time across Finance, SAP and connected tools. This is a hands‑on role where you’ll lead finance workstreams through complex change, bring clarity to ambiguity, and coach colleagues across Finance to embed scalable, sustainable ways of working. If you enjoy turning complexity into practical solutions and influencing without authority, this is a brilliant opportunity to make a visible impact. This role can be based in either Salford Quays or London Paddington.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Finance workstream for Brands initiatives, shaping target operating models, partnering with Project, Tech, Logistics and Finance teams, and seeing change through from design to post‑implementation review.
• Design and embed robust, end‑to‑end finance processes across the SAP‑led landscape, ensuring accurate postings, reconciliations, controls and brand P&L reporting.
• Own Finance testing, readiness and deployment, including UAT, production validation, hypercare and issue resolution to ensure stable go‑lives.
• Build strong relationships across Brands Finance, Commercial Finance, SSC/BSC and the wider business, providing clear updates on risks, decisions and progress.
• Act as a Brands Finance subject‑matter expert, championing data quality, insight and continuous improvement while coaching colleagues and influencing standard process.
• Work across finance support centre teams both front and back office to ensure that new business initiatives are managed correctly from a supplier, management accounting and commercial perspective.

Who you are:

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) with experience in retail, FMCG, apparel or third‑party/marketplace supplier models.
• Proven experience leading finance workstreams through systems and process change, ideally within an SAP ERP environment.
• Strong understanding of P&L, COGS, pricing and promotions, trade terms, returns and markdowns, with a focus on getting things right first time.
• Confident communicator and influencer who can challenge constructively, simplify complexity and bring others with them through change.
• A proactive, coaching mentality with strong problem‑solving skills and a passion for building scalable, well‑controlled ways of working.

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.