Job Description
Reporting to the BSC Finance Manager – Property, you'll be responsible for delivering month end and supporting on forecasting cycles for Property costs including Legal and Management fees and other smaller property cost lines, plus providing support to the Senior Finance Analyst on the IFRS16 leases. The role involves the posting of accruals and prepayments, reconciliation of balance sheets, supporting on variance analysis and budgeting and forecasting. The role also works very closely with the Senior Finance Managers and Head of Finance in our wider London team.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
- Full study support for CIMA/ACCA
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Drilling down on large data sets to identify what is going on! Preparation of financial reports, providing accurate financial data for analysis and commentary, working closely with finance colleagues and business divisions to support strategic decision making
- Driving increased insight through analysis to identify trends, challenge assumptions and make recommendations to deliver business benefit
- Ensuring a strong financial control environment is maintained
- Troubleshooting solutions to business unit queries and proactively taking action to resolve any complex issues
- Driving operational improvements, identifying efficiencies, and implementing them
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
- Strong MS Office skills, particularly Excel
- Using data and analysis to solve problems
- Confident, clear, and effective communicator
- Studying towards CIMA/ACCA qualification or equivalent
Everyone’s welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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