Contract Financial Controller, Marks & Spencer

01Summary

• This is a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact leadership position at the
• heart of our Business Services Centre, shaping the future of controllership

across M&S. As part of the BSC Leadership Team, you’ll lead a large, diverse

team and partner with some of the most senior stakeholders across Finance to

deliver financial integrity, drive transformation, and enable better business

decisions.

You’ll play a critical role in modernising our finance function, driving

standardisation, and supporting the implementation of SAP S/4HANA, helping us

build a simpler, more agile M&S.

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.

02What you’ll do

• Your key accountabilities will include:
• Leading all controllership activity across multiple business units including
• Food, Fashion, Home & Beauty, International, Property, Retail, and Digital &
• Technology
• Building, developing and inspiring a high-performing team of c.50 colleagues
• (with 4–5 direct reports), championing a strong performance culture
• Acting as a trusted senior partner to Finance Directors, the Group Financial
• Controller and wider Finance leadership
• Ensuring robust financial control, integrity of Business Unit financial
• statements, and leading internal and external audit relationships
• Driving standardisation, automation and continuous improvement, including
• supporting SAP S/4HANA implementation and finance transformation

03Who you are

• Your skills and experience will include:
• Senior financial control experience in a FTSE 250 environment, ideally within
• retail or FMCG
• A proven track record of leading high-performing teams and driving
• performance, engagement and culture
• Strong experience working with Shared Service Centres / Centres of
• Excellence, with exposure to large-scale finance operations
• Demonstrated success in delivering automation, standardisation and process
• improvement initiatives
• Professionally qualified (ACA or equivalent) with the credibility to
• influence and partner senior stakeholders
• 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

04Everyone’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.