# Head of Finance Controllership

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: Salford, M50
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

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.

### Key Responsibilities:

- 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 around 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

### Requirements:

- 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

### Benefits:

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household

- 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

## Skills

### Required
- SAP S/4HANA
- financial control
- team leadership
- standardisation
- automation
- continuous improvement

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