Senior Finance Analyst - Distribution Centre Operations

As Senior Finance Analyst, you'll work closely with site leadership and operational teams, helping to drive performance, improve controls and support key strategic decisions.

Your responsibilities will include:

Partnering senior operational stakeholders to provide meaningful financial insight, challenge assumptions and drive accountability across warehouse performance, productivity, service and cost.

Supporting the 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.

We're looking for a commercially curious finance professional who enjoys partnering with the business, solving problems and driving continuous improvement.

A professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Strong business partnering or operational finance experience, ideally gained within logistics, warehousing, supply chain, retail, FMCG, manufacturing or other high-volume environments.

Strong analytical capability with experience of 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.

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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