Finance Analyst

3 weeks ago

Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Marks & Spencer Full time
Finance Analyst - Change & Process Improvement - Salford, Greater Manchester Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

Summary

Fully woven into the DNA of M&S, our Finance team plays a fundamental role in setting the pace for our key business decisions, shaping our budgets, analysing our sales, managing costs and making sure our most vital statistics and data are absolutely accurate. Within the Salford Quays Finance Service Centre, we are moving beyond a shared service centre; we play a critical part in the M&S ‘One Finance Team’ and are heading towards our ambition to become a centre of excellence - there’s never been a better time to be part of our team

All the details

As a Finance Analyst – Change & Process Improvement you will be responsible for supporting the successful launch of Business and Continuous Improvement initiatives. You will be able to review current processes and implement process improvements which create efficiencies within finance whilst maintaining or increasing controls.

You will partner closely with colleagues across the Business Service Centre (Manchester), wider finance (London), Technology Teams and Business Units. The role requires the individual to exhibit reporting & commercial awareness plus systems capabilities.

What’s in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

  • 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
  • Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days
  • A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
  • A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
  • Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
  • Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
  • A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
  • Full study support for CIMA/ACCA
What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

  • Analyse, identify and understand opportunities to optimise processes.
  • User Acceptance Testing for business and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Implement measurable improvements to processes/activities with a clear benefit.
  • Ensure all processes are mapped and standard methodologies are identified.
  • Build a strong relationship with the Change & Control Team ensuring any improvements implemented either maintain or increase controls.
Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

  • Demonstrable experience of Continual Process Improvement, tools and automation. (eg ChatBots, PowerBI)
  • Experience of working within Finance Teams (part qualified CIMA / ACCA qualification or equivalent)
  • Strong commercial awareness to identify any risks / opportunities to the business and make relevant recommendations to resolve.
  • Experience of User Acceptance Testing
  • Experience of working in a cross functional matrix environment with a variety of business partners on multiple projects.
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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