# Finance Manager - Supply Chain

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: Salford, M50 3SP, GB
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Finance Manager - Supply Chain at Marks & Spencer, you will lead and develop a high-performing team, creating a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and exceptional business partner service.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Leading and developing a high-performing team

- Owning the end-to-end stock finance process, ensuring robust controls, accurate reporting, effective reconciliations, and a seamless period-end close

- Driving automation and process improvement initiatives, reducing manual activity and enhancing efficiency, control, and colleague experience

- Partnering with team members across the business to resolve complex stock-related issues, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions

- Generating actionable insights from financial and operational data to improve stock management, working capital performance, and business decision-making

To be successful in this role, you will need to be a qualified accountant with strong knowledge of stock accounting, Record to Report processes, and financial controls. You will also need:

- Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to coach, develop, and inspire teams to deliver outstanding results

- A strong process improvement approach, with experience crafting, standardising, and optimising end-to-end finance processes

- Excellent analytical and systems capability

- Proficiency in SAP, Excel, and finance technologies such as Power BI, BlackLine, or automation tools

- Confident business partner management and communication skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and build strong relationships across Finance and non-Finance teams

In return for your hard work, you will receive a range of benefits, including:

- 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
- stock accounting
- Record to Report processes
- financial controls
- SAP
- Excel
- Power BI
- BlackLine
- automation tools

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