### Job Introduction# Role OverviewAs a Senior Finance Manager, you'll play a significant leadership role within the Finance Team, overseeing specific business areas and guiding a team of Finance Managers and Finance Analysts to deliver a consistently excellent finance service across the business.You'll be a trusted partner to senior leadership stakeholders, shaping financial plans, driving commercial insight and ensuring robust governance across your remit. You'll lead and develop your team with a forward thinking approach, contribute actively to Finance Team culture and work closely with your Head of Finance on team strategy and people development.# Key Responsibilities* Act as a senior finance partner to leadership stakeholders — offering proactive challenge, commercial guidance and decision making support across a broad set of financial and non-financial KPIs.* Provide financial leadership on major business cases and investments, bringing analysis from multiple areas into a cohesive and strategic point of view.* Oversee the delivery of monthly management accounts across your team's remit, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful and on time.* Understand and review all balance sheets within your area, taking accountability for accuracy and leading improvements to support efficiency, control and audit readiness.* Lead and coordinate budgeting, forecasting and long range planning, providing strategic direction to your team and managing risks and opportunities to deliver the overall budget in line with top-down expectations.* Identify opportunities to improve processes, data quality and reporting, empowering your team to deliver improvements and considering the commercial impact.* Lead and develop a team, ensuring clear succession plans are in place and creating opportunities for growth across the team.* Support the Head of Finance in shaping and delivering the Finance Team people plan and ways of working.* Represent Finance credibly and confidently at senior forums and cross functional meetings.* Deputise for the Head of Finance when required.# Behaviours* Relationship Building — works collaboratively with business partners at all levels; broadens relationships to include leadership from other functions; builds connections with Executive stakeholders and uses a holistic view of business processes to bring functions together.* Challenge & Influence — ensures stakeholders understand the likely full-year outturn for financial and non-financial KPIs; uses insight to influence or define business decisions; brings together multiple stakeholders to deliver outcomes.* Communication — coordinates within the business area using insight and experience to enhance plans; takes accountability for the financial delivery of the business area alongside stakeholders; presents clearly and confidently to senior audiences.* Responsiveness & Proactivity — builds increasing trust through real commitment to delivering appropriate solutions; uses relationships to manage expectations and navigate difficult circumstances; proactively identifies and discusses issues and opportunities.* Balance Sheet Accuracy — understands and reviews all balance sheets in their area; identifies opportunities for improvement and efficiency; challenges ways of working and tests the suitability of reconciliation processes for audit purposes.* Understanding the P&L — understands and articulates to stakeholders the current position and expected outturn of the business area; proactively identifies risks and opportunities and engages stakeholders to manage them.* Financial Modelling & Presentation — consolidates analysis from multiple areas into a cohesive point of view, incorporating non-financial factors and a strategic lens; creates concise presentations that clearly articulate the what, why and how; coaches and guides the team on modelling approach and output quality.* Planning — plans resource and workload across the team to deliver the full-year framework; proactively drives medium and longer-term deliverables; ensures alignment across the wider Finance Team and manages interdependencies.* Process & Controls — identifies control risks and defines mitigating actions; works proactively with business stakeholders to implement improvements; leads audit responses and identifies end-to-end process opportunities to improve control and reduce risk.* Succession Planning & Development — supports and coaches the team to improve; develops a forward-thinking approach within the team; ensures a clear succession plan is in place matching talent internally and externally.* Values & Culture — role models leadership behaviours, champions wellbeing and contributes to a culture where everyone is comfortable standing out from the crowd and bringing their authentic self.* AI & Technology — champions the use of AI and emerging technologies across the team; leads by example in exploring new tools, drives their adoption where they add genuine value, and creates space for the team to experiment and innovate.# Skills & Experience* Fully qualified accountant — CIMA, ACCA, ACA or international equivalent.* Significant post-qualification experience, with a track record of operating in senior finance roles.* Proven experience managing and developing a team of finance professionals.* Strong business partnering experience at a senior level, ideally in a complex or fast-moving organisation.* Experience driving process improvement and embedding best practice within a finance team.* Excellent financial modelling, planning and analytical skills — including the ability to bring analysis from multiple areas into a cohesive story.* Experience with financial systems and using AI technologiesSelfridgesApply+−Leaflet | OpenStreetMap contributors| | || --- | --- || Salary | Competitive plus benefits || | Annually || Job Reference | selfridges/TP/236299/7208 || Contract Type | Permanent || Closing Date | 26 October, 2026 || Job Category | Finance || Location | London, United Kingdom || | 29 September, 2026 | #J-18808-Ljbffr
Senior Finance Manager- Costs employer: Selfridges
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