Finance Manager - Homeware & Furniture
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Position type
- Full Time
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date:
- 29th October 2026
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.
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Summary
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 we continue to grow this exciting part of our business, we're looking for a commercially-minded Finance Manager to partner with our Homeware & Furniture leadership teams and help drive the next phase of growth. Based on the attached role profile, this position partners the business to shape strategic and commercial decisions through insight-led financial analysis, planning and performance management.
Homeware & Furniture is one of the most exciting growth areas within M&S. From stylish own-brand collections and premium furniture ranges to innovative partnerships and digital growth, we're investing heavily in creating destination categories for our customers.
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.
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. 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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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.
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Benefits
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.
Finance Manager - Homeware & Furniture
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Position type
- Full Time
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 29th October 2026
- Reference: 128524