Finance Manager - Technical

Team

Support Functions

Store

Salford Quays

Location

Salford, Greater Manchester

Contract type

Permanent

Position type

Full Time

Salary

Competitive + Benefits

Closing date: 21st June 2026

• Intro
• About the role
• Meet the Team
• People Stories
• Make Your Mark
• Colleague Networks
• Benefits
• How to Apply

How We Hire

Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

About the role

This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.

To stay close to our customers and colleagues, our support teams are in the office for at least three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

Summary

This is a brilliant opportunity to join Marks & Spencer at a genuinely exciting time of transformation and growth. As we continue to invest in our Manchester Finance team and build a best in class controllership structure, this newly created role offers the chance to make a real impact from day one.

As Finance Manager - Technical, you will play a key role in strengthening governance, improving financial processes and providing high quality technical accounting support that enables confident decision making across the business. Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, Corporate Controllership, you will help build the future of controllership at M&S. You will combine technical expertise with commercial curiosity, excellent judgement, and a continuous improvement approach.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong qualified accountant who enjoys solving complex problems, improving processes and influencing how finance supports a fast moving, high profile business area.

All the details

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead the technical reporting of store closure costs, ensuring high quality outputs, strong process documentation and a robust controls framework.
• Drive the ongoing development and improvement of core financial models and reporting processes to enhance accuracy, efficiency and insight.
• Maintain clear and consistent accounting principles around adjusting items, ensuring strong governance and integrity of financial reporting.
• Provide technical accounting support to the controllership team and wider business, helping to navigate new projects and complex accounting matters.
• Lead, coach and develop a direct report while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, accountability and financial discipline.

Who you are

Your skills will include:

• Qualified accountant (ACA) with post qualified experience and strong technical accounting capability.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, UK adopted IAS and FRS 102, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a practical business environment.
• Excellent attention to detail, alongside a curious and analytical approach to identifying risks, root causes and opportunities for improvement.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and tell a clear story through the numbers.
• Proven experience of balance sheet accountability, financial controls and involvement in projects or process improvement initiatives.

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. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

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

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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Meet the Team

Being an in-person business

We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.

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It takes time to turn around a business as big as M&S: you can’t just instantly pivot from managed decline to sustainable growth. But we’ve done the hard yards, there really is a momentum now and it’s not just a few green shoots of recovery. We’re clear about our strategy, our growth is strong and we’re so confident about the future. It’s great to be part of this.

Jodie (She / Her) | Head of Finance Read full story

Our ‘Closer to Customers’ programme means we all get to work in a store for seven days every year. We see how our customers experience M&S and we can appreciate the challenges our colleagues face in store. It’s all part of a determination to listen, to understand and to change things for the better.

Tom (He / Him) | Employee Experience & Engagement Lead Read full story

It takes time to turn around a business as big as M&S: you can’t just instantly pivot from managed decline to sustainable growth. But we’ve done the hard yards, there really is a momentum now and it’s not just a few green shoots of recovery. We’re clear about our strategy, our growth is strong and we’re so confident about the future. It’s great to be part of this.

Jodie (She / Her) | Head of Finance Read full story

Our ‘Closer to Customers’ programme means we all get to work in a store for seven days every year. We see how our customers experience M&S and we can appreciate the challenges our colleagues face in store. It’s all part of a determination to listen, to understand and to change things for the better.

Tom (He / Him) | Employee Experience & Engagement Lead Read full story

It takes time to turn around a business as big as M&S: you can’t just instantly pivot from managed decline to sustainable growth. But we’ve done the hard yards, there really is a momentum now and it’s not just a few green shoots of recovery. We’re clear about our strategy, our growth is strong and we’re so confident about the future. It’s great to be part of this.

Jodie (She / Her) | Head of Finance Read full story

Our ‘Closer to Customers’ programme means we all get to work in a store for seven days every year. We see how our customers experience M&S and we can appreciate the challenges our colleagues face in store. It’s all part of a determination to listen, to understand and to change things for the better.

Tom (He / Him) | Employee Experience & Engagement Lead Read full story

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Make Your Mark

Opportunities to be heard

Your voice and your ideas matter here. Our 8 colleague networks are places to find support, listen to each other and encourage debate. You can pitch ideas ‘Straight to Stuart’, our CEO, or get involved in our BIG (Business involvement Group).

Experience the business

You’ll spend 7 days each year helping in store and getting closer to our customers. We also organise Insight Days, so you can learn more about specific business units, like Foods.

Colleague Networks

We want you to feel supported, no matter what.

Family & Carers Network

A support network for parents and carers, offering a space for colleagues to share experiences, exchange ideas, and access useful resources.

Gender Equality Network

Addressing gender-related challenges, raising awareness, and driving action to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Cancer Network

Fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, addressing stigma, providing guidance and raising awareness to empower and assist colleagues affected by cancer.

Forces Community Network

Supporting colleagues connected to the Armed Forces, aiding their transition to civilian life, and ensuring that they thrive in the workplace.

Health and Wellbeing Network

Providing a safe space for colleagues with all types of health conditions or disabilities and supporting with business initiatives to ensure our stores are truly accessible for our customers.

Menopause Network

Initiating and encouraging open conversations about menopause by offering support and sharing experiences.

LGBTQ+ Network

Proactively representing LGBTQ+ issues and opportunities to deliver a truly inclusive place to work and shop for our colleagues and customers.

Culture and Heritage Network

Raising awareness of various religions and cultures through events and comms, to educate others and better represent our M&S colleagues and customers.

Family & Carers Network

A support network for parents and carers, offering a space for colleagues to share experiences, exchange ideas, and access useful resources.

Gender Equality Network

Addressing gender-related challenges, raising awareness, and driving action to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Cancer Network

Fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, addressing stigma, providing guidance and raising awareness to empower and assist colleagues affected by cancer.

Forces Community Network

Supporting colleagues connected to the Armed Forces, aiding their transition to civilian life, and ensuring that they thrive in the workplace.

Health and Wellbeing Network

Providing a safe space for colleagues with all types of health conditions or disabilities and supporting with business initiatives to ensure our stores are truly accessible for our customers.

Menopause Network

Initiating and encouraging open conversations about menopause by offering support and sharing experiences.

LGBTQ+ Network

Proactively representing LGBTQ+ issues and opportunities to deliver a truly inclusive place to work and shop for our colleagues and customers.

Culture and Heritage Network

Raising awareness of various religions and cultures through events and comms, to educate others and better represent our M&S colleagues and customers.

Family & Carers Network

A support network for parents and carers, offering a space for colleagues to share experiences, exchange ideas, and access useful resources.

Gender Equality Network

Addressing gender-related challenges, raising awareness, and driving action to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Cancer Network

Fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, addressing stigma, providing guidance and raising awareness to empower and assist colleagues affected by cancer.

Forces Community Network

Supporting colleagues connected to the Armed Forces, aiding their transition to civilian life, and ensuring that they thrive in the workplace.

Health and Wellbeing Network

Providing a safe space for colleagues with all types of health conditions or disabilities and supporting with business initiatives to ensure our stores are truly accessible for our customers.

Menopause Network

Initiating and encouraging open conversations about menopause by offering support and sharing experiences.

LGBTQ+ Network

Proactively representing LGBTQ+ issues and opportunities to deliver a truly inclusive place to work and shop for our colleagues and customers.

Culture and Heritage Network

Raising awareness of various religions and cultures through events and comms, to educate others and better represent our M&S colleagues and customers.

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Benefits

Wellbeing hub

Get access to resources to support your wellbeing, including a free virtual GP service.

• Wellbeing hub

• Wellbeing hub

  Get access to resources to support your wellbeing, including a free virtual GP service.

• Giving back

• Giving back

  Support your favourite charities by donating through your pay or even volunteering for them.

• Pay

• Pay

  Earn a competitive salary.

• Colleague discount

• Colleague discount

  After completing your probation period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.

  Please note only contracts of more than 12 weeks are eligible for this benefit.

• Time off

• Time off

  Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.

• Bonus

• Bonus

  We have discretionary bonus schemes depending on your role and our business performance.

• Life assurance

• Life assurance

  Get cover for twice your salary up to age 70 (double with our Pension Plan).

• Workplace savings

• Workplace savings

  We’ll help you save through our Pension Savings Plan, Share Buy and Sharesave schemes.

• My Choices

• My Choices

  Save on everyday costs through discounts and offers and get access to great health benefits.

• Cycle to work

• Cycle to work

  Bike/accessory hire with Cycle to Work and save on tax and national insurance.

• Smart tech

• Smart tech

  Buy the latest technology with interest-free financing directly from your salary.

• Family friendly policy

• Family friendly policy

  Industry-leading maternity, paternity, adoption and neo-natal policies, providing support and flexibility for you and your family.

• Wellbeing hub
• Giving back
• Pay
• Colleague discount
• Time off
• Bonus
• Life assurance
• Workplace savings
• My Choices
• Cycle to work
• Smart tech
• Family friendly policy

How to Apply

Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.

Send us your application

Fill in our short application form and hit submit.

Online assessment

Depending on the role, you may be invited to take part in an online assessment. Should you be invited to an online assessment your Talent Acquisition Partner will be more than happy to support you with any questions.

Interview

We'll invite you to join us for an interview. This could be remote or in person. Here, we'll ask you some role based technical questions and examine the behaviours we're looking for.

Decision

After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.