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MS Companies

Senior Finance Manager – Fashion, Home & Beauty, FP&A

MS Companies

Senior Finance Manager leading FP&A at M&S in the Fashion, Home & Beauty division. Ensuring financial integrity and managing processes with senior stakeholders.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Managing a high performing team of 3
  • Own end-to-end FP&A processes, ensuring accurate, controlled and auditable actuals, forecasts and plans, and acting as the single point of accountability for financial integrity
  • Lead the full planning cycle (budget, forecast and long-term outlook), setting clear standards, consistent assumptions and financial direction for the business
  • Oversee headcount and central cost management, ensuring strong governance, transparency and trusted financial data
  • Drive FP&A governance and best practice, strengthening controls, closing gaps and ensuring outputs meet executive and audit standards
  • Lead working capital performance and develop a high-performing FP&A team, building capability, driving rigour and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Fully qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)
  • Strong experience in FP&A or performance management within a complex organisation
  • Deep technical expertise across forecasting, planning, governance and working capital
  • Proven ability to own financials end-to-end and defend them under scrutiny
  • Proven experience leading, managing and developing teams, building high performance and accountability
  • Confidence influencing and operating at senior Finance leadership level

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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

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Hard Skills & Tools
FP&Aforecastingplanninggovernanceworking capital managementfinancial integritybudgetingfinancial analysiscost managementperformance management
Soft Skills
team leadershipaccountabilityinfluencingcommunicationcontinuous improvementgovernancetransparencycollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinking
Certifications
CIMAACAACCA