# Finance Manager - Homeware & Furniture

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

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## Description

At M&S, we're on a mission to reshape Homeware & Furniture, creating inspiring products, elevating quality, and delivering exceptional value for our customers.

As a commercially-minded Finance Manager, you'll partner with our Homeware & Furniture leadership teams and help drive the next phase of growth.

**What you'll do**

As a trusted finance business partner, you'll work closely with our Buying, Merchandising and Trading teams to support profitable growth across Homeware & Furniture.

You'll:

- Own financial performance across the Homeware & Furniture business area, providing insight and challenge to deliver sales, profit, stock and cash targets.

- Partner with commercial teams to evaluate pricing, promotions, product strategy and category performance, helping drive customer demand and profitability.

- Lead forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning processes, ensuring strategic initiatives are reflected in our financial plans.

- Analyse trends in sales, margin, stock and customer behaviour to identify opportunities, risks and actions that improve performance.

- Support stock and working capital management, helping optimise inventory levels across seasonal and core home ranges.

- Deliver scenario modelling and business cases for new initiatives, category investments and growth opportunities.

- Build strong relationships across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Customer Insight and Finance teams to improve decision-making and business performance.

**Who you are**

We're looking for a commercially curious and analytically strong finance professional who enjoys working at pace and influencing decisions that directly impact customers and business performance.

You'll ideally be:

- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong post-qualified experience, ideally within retail, consumer goods or another fast-paced commercial environment.

- Proven commercial finance and business partnering experience, with the ability to influence strategic decisions and challenge senior stakeholders.

- Passion for Homeware & Furniture, with a strong understanding of customer trends, trading performance and market dynamics.

- Highly analytical with advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, capable of turning complex data into actionable commercial insight.

- Collaborative, proactive and relationship-focused, with the confidence to build strong partnerships across Buying, Merchandising, Trading and Finance teams.

**What's in it for you?**

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- financial analysis
- budgeting
- forecasting
- financial modelling
- Excel

### Nice to have
- commercial finance
- business partnering
- retail
- consumer goods

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