Strategic Finance Analyst – Logistics & DC Rollout

M&S; Chichester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Holiday entitlement

Bonus schemes

Pension & life assurance

Induction & training

M&S Choices portal

Family policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to partner our operations teams during a major supply chain transformation centered on the Lichfield distribution centre. You will translate data into insights that shape financial performance and help optimise costs, productivity and service across our warehouse network.

The role combines budgeting, forecasting and reporting with hands-on finance support for mobilisation, go-live and stabilisation.

Qualifications

• A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Strong business partnering or operational finance experience in logistics, warehousing, supply chain, retail, FMCG, manufacturing or other high‑volume environments.
• Strong analytical capability with budgeting, forecasting, modelling and performance analysis.
• Experience improving reporting, controls, processes or ways of working through operational change, transformation or systems implementation.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge non-finance audiences.
• Advanced Excel skills, with experience of Power BI or similar reporting tools desirable.

Responsibilities

• Partnering senior operational stakeholders to provide meaningful financial insight, challenge assumptions and drive accountability across warehouse performance, productivity, service and cost.
• Supporting mobilisation and launch of the new Lichfield distribution centre, establishing finance processes, reporting, controls, reconciliations and visibility of key risks and opportunities.
• Owning budgeting, forecasting and periodic reporting processes, continuously improving the quality, speed and automation of finance outputs.
• Analysing warehouse economics, connecting volumes, labour, automation, productivity, inventory and operational performance to financial outcomes.
• Supporting peak planning, capacity management and operational decision making through scenario modelling, root-cause analysis and performance forecasting.

Skills

Budgets & Forecasts

Stakeholder management

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Power BI experience

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to partner our operations teams during a major supply chain transformation centered on the Lichfield distribution centre. You will translate data into insights that shape financial performance and help optimise costs, productivity and service across our warehouse network.

The role combines budgeting, forecasting and reporting with hands-on finance support for mobilisation, go-live and stabilisation.