Senior Finance Analyst - Supply Chain Transformation

M&S; Chichester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Pension and life assurance

Induction and training

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day(s)

Job summary

Marks & Spencer (M&S) is transforming its Fashion, Home & Beauty business and seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to join the Supply Chain Transformation Finance team. You will partner with senior stakeholders to evaluate major investment opportunities and build compelling business cases for warehouse automation, transport networks and future operating models.

You will be ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent, with strong commercial acumen and a passion for driving business performance through strategic

Qualifications

• Experience building robust financial models and business cases.
• Strong ability to translate complex analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to challenge costs and benefits.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate major supply chain investments across warehouse capacity, automation, technology and transport.
• Build and maintain financial models, analyse capex, costs, cash flow and benefits.
• Deliver investment appraisal analyses (NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity) to support decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure robust, evidence-based investment cases.
• Track benefits delivery and drive continuous improvement in transformational investments.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Financial modelling

Investment appraisal

Stakeholder influence

Data analysis

Education

Accounting qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)

Job description

Job Description

Summary

At M&S, we're transforming our Fashion, Home & Beauty business to become a bigger, more profitable and truly omnichannel retailer. With ambitious plans to grow online sales and modernise our operations, our Supply Chain & Logistics team is at the heart of that transformation.

We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Finance Analyst to join our Supply Chain Transformation Finance team. In this role, you'll partner with senior stakeholders across Logistics, Transformation and Finance to evaluate major investment opportunities, challenge assumptions, build compelling business cases and ensure transformative projects deliver sustainable value for the business. You'll play a key role in shaping decisions around warehouse automation, transport networks, technology investment and future supply chain operating models.

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 be doing

• Supporting the financial evaluation of major supply chain investments across warehouse capacity, automation, technology, transport, returns and future network design.
• Building and maintaining robust financial models and business cases, analysing capex, operating costs, cash flow, benefits and investment performance.
• Delivering investment appraisal analysis including NPV, IRR, payback and sensitivity modelling to support strategic decision-making and capital prioritisation.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to challenge costs, benefits, risks and timelines, ensuring investment cases are robust and evidence based.
• Tracking delivery of project benefits, driving continuous improvement initiatives and helping ensure transformational investments generate measurable financial outcomes.

What you’ll do

You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with strong commercial acumen and a genuine interest in driving business performance through strategic investment and transformation. You’ll be comfortable working with large datasets, building financial models and translating complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations.

We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Experience developing and challenging business cases and investment proposals.
• Strong financial modelling and investment appraisal capability, including NPV, IRR and sensitivity analysis.
• The confidence to influence and challenge stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Experience within supply chain, logistics, retail, FMCG, infrastructure, technology or other capital-intensive environments.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to improve reporting, processes and decision-making through data, automation and technology.

Why M&S?

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 (likely "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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