Senior Finance Analyst - Assessment Day
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- Salford Quays
- Location
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 30th June 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.
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
Are you ready to make a real impact in one of the UK’s most iconic retailers?
At M&S, our finance teams are at the heart of how we make smarter, faster decisions for our customers and our business. We’re looking for Senior Finance Analysts to join our growing Shared Service Centre in Salford Quays, where you’ll turn data into insight, partner with colleagues across the business, and help shape the future of finance as we continue to evolve into a Centre of Expertise model.
If you enjoy solving problems, influencing decisions, and being part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, this is your opportunity to step up.
At M&S, our finance teams are at the heart of how we make smarter, faster decisions for our customers and our business. We’re looking for Senior Finance Analysts to join our growing Shared Service Centre in Salford Quays, where you’ll turn data into insight, partner with colleagues across the business, and help shape the future of finance as we continue to evolve into a Centre of Expertise model.
If you enjoy solving problems, influencing decisions, and being part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, this is your opportunity to step up.
All the details
In-Person Assessment Day – Friday 10th July (starting at 1:30pm)
This will be a great chance to get to know more about the role, the team, and how you could grow your career with us. As part of the day, you can expect:
- A presentation task where you’ll share your thinking and approach
- A competency-based interview focused on your experience and potential
- Time to meet members of the team and gain insight into life at M&S Finance
- An opportunity to showcase your skills in a collaborative and welcoming environment
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Deliver accurate and insightful financial reporting to support business performance and decision-making
- Partner with commercial and central finance teams to provide clear, value-adding financial guidance
- Lead and support initiatives to enhance the quality and depth of financial analysis and reporting
- Contribute to month-end and year-end processes, ensuring strong controls and compliance
- Identify and drive operational improvements to simplify, standardise, and strengthen finance outputs
Who you are
Your skills will include:
- Strong analytical capability with the confidence to interpret data and communicate clear insights
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial systems such as SAP or Blackline
- Excellent business partner management skills with the ability to influence and build relationships
- Ability to manage several priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Professionally qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA), with an interest in using technology or AI to improve ways of working
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.
Senior Finance Analyst - Assessment Day
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- Salford Quays
- Location
- Salford, Greater Manchester
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 30th June 2026
- Reference: 121679