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This is an exciting opportunity to join our Digital & Technology Finance team and partner some of the most innovative and fast-growing areas of the business, including Data & AI, Sparks, Loyalty and Financial Services.\nAs Finance Manager, you'll work closely with senior leaders to provide commercial challenge, strategic insight and financial leadership across a portfolio of high-profile investments and transformation programmes. Whether supporting AI innovation, enhancing customer loyalty or driving digital growth, you'll play a key role in helping M&S make confident, value-driven decisions that shape our future.\nTo 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.\nWhat you’ll do\nYour key accountabilities will include:\nPartner the Data & AI and Customer (Loyalty & Financial Services) leadership teams, acting as a trusted advisor and providing financial insight, commercial challenge and strategic support that enables informed decision-making and delivery of long-term business goals. \nLead budgeting, forecasting and planning activities across your functions, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of performance, risks, opportunities and investment priorities while driving accountability for financial outcomes. \nEvaluate and challenge investment proposals, business cases and transformation initiatives, ensuring robust financial assumptions, clear benefit realisation plans and strong returns on investment from significant strategic spend. \nDeliver insightful reporting and analysis for senior stakeholders, translating complex financial and operational data into clear recommendations that improve performance, influence decision-making and support future growth. \nDrive effective governance, financial control and risk management across major programmes, proactively identifying issues, influencing outcomes and ensuring investments deliver measurable value for M&S.\nWho you are\nYour skills and experience will include:\nA qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong experience in commercial finance, business partnering or strategic investment support within a large, fast-paced organisation. \nAn exceptional relationship builder who can influence, challenge and support senior stakeholders, developing credibility through proactive partnership, strong communication skills and commercial insight. \nCommercially minded and highly analytical, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify trends and opportunities, and translate findings into practical recommendations that drive business performance. \nComfortable operating in a constantly evolving environment, managing multiple priorities simultaneously while remaining organised, resilient and focused on delivering high-quality outcomes. \nExperience supporting technology, digital, data, customer, loyalty, financial services or transformation functions would be advantageous, alongside a genuine curiosity for innovation and the future of retail.\nWhat’s in it for you?\nWorking 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.\nHere are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:\n20% 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\nCompetitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more\nDiscretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours \nStrong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future\nTailored induction and training to support your development from day one\nExclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal\nMarket-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave\n24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services\nOne paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you\nEveryone’s welcome\nWe are ambitious about the future of retail. 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