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

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.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• 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.

Your skills and experience will include:

• 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.

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.