Finance Manager - Fashion Home & Beauty - Marketing & Online

This is a high‑impact opportunity to sit at the heart of a key growth area - combining commercial insight, strategic influence and hands‑on delivery to help shape the future of M&S’s Fashion, Home & Beauty business. Summary

This is a brilliant time to join M&S as we continue to accelerate the growth of our Fashion, Home & Beauty business. We’re looking for a Finance Manager - Marketing & Online to play a pivotal role in shaping marketing strategy, guiding investment decisions and driving commercial performance across a highly visible and fast‑paced area.

In this role, you’ll partner closely with Marketing and Online leadership, using data, insight and commercial acumen to influence both day‑to‑day trading and long‑term strategy, ensuring every pound spent delivers maximum return.

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

Your key accountabilities will include

• Partner with Marketing and Online teams to shape strategy, guiding investment decisions and ensuring strong financial and operational alignment
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting cycles, providing clear insight into performance, risks and opportunities
• Drive ROI across marketing channels, integrating Marketing Mix Model outputs and tracking ROAS to optimise spend effectiveness
• Own monthly and quarterly reporting, delivering clear, forward‑looking commentary to support decision‑making at pace
• Enhance reporting and processes (including reducing reliance on Excel), while maintaining strong financial controls and data integrity

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• A qualified accountant (CIMA or ACCA) with strong experience in forecasting, budgeting and commercial analysis
• Proven ability to business partner senior stakeholders, influencing decisions across non‑finance teams
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insight
• A continuous improvement mindset, with experience strengthening processes, controls and reporting
• A collaborative leader, confident working independently while also coaching and supporting others (including indirect reports)

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.

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