Thursday , March 28 2024

Jobs at Marks and Spencer – Finance Analyst

Website Marks and Spencer

Job Description:

Fully woven into the DNA of M&S, our Finance team plays a key 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.

With a focus on adding value to all business areas by helping them make data-driven decisions and understand what is driving commercial performance – it’s our job to make sure the right tools, processes, governance and ways of working are in place to support this.

We are looking for an experienced Finance Analyst, who will be a commercial and strategic business partner, looking at the big picture to drive insight and analysis that will support profitable decision making in both the long term strategy and the day to day trading.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Improving the visibility of profit in all reporting outputs and focussing decision making on profitable outcomes
  • Manage a robust rolling risks and ops process
  • Provide trading support by interpreting and analysing data to deliver insight into business performance
  • Understand key sales, margin and profitability drivers and pro-actively undertake analysis to support driving profitable sales and maximise margin
  • Find opportunities to reduce and optimise markdown spend across long term planning and in season trading decisions
  • Management of the operating cost budgets, identifying and delivering cost saving opportunities

Job Requirements:

  • Strong commercial finance experience in the Retail sector
  • Ability to communicate with impact to senior management, business partners and other finance teams
  • Good commercial understanding of the business & market
  • Budgeting and forecasting experience
  • Stock management experience
  • Quick learner, hardworking and solution focused
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Finance systems knowledge
  • Maintenance of meticulous financial controls
  • Qualified Accountant – CIMA/ACCA/ACA

Job Details:

Company: Marks and Spencer

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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