Finance Manager – Homeware & Furniture

Overview

In this role you will partner with Homeware & Furniture leadership to steer profitable growth through insight-led finance, planning and performance management. You’ll collaborate with Buying, Merchandising and Trading to shape pricing, product strategy and category performance. You will lead forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning, while analysing trends to identify risks and opportunities. This is a fast-paced, commercially driven role that connects finance with customer-facing decisions to drive value.

Pay / Benefits

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products
• competitive holiday allowance with option to buy more
• discretionary bonus schemes linked to performance
• pension and life assurance
• tailored induction and training
• M&S Choices portal discounts and perks

Responsibilities

• Own financial performance for Homeware & Furniture, delivering sales, profit, stock and cash targets
• Partner with commercial teams to evaluate pricing, promotions, product strategy and category performance
• Lead forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning processes
• Analyse trends in sales, margin, stock and customer behaviour to identify opportunities and risks
• Support stock and working capital management to optimise inventory across seasonal and core ranges
• Deliver scenario modelling and business cases for new initiatives and growth opportunities
• Build relationships across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Customer Insight and Finance to improve decision-making and performance

Key requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with post-qualification experience
• Proven commercial finance and business partnering experience in a fast-paced environment
• Strong understanding of Homeware & Furniture market dynamics and customer trends
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills to translate data into insights
• Collaborative, proactive and relationship-focused with stakeholder management skills

• commercially curious
• analytical
• influencing and stakeholder management
• advanced Excel
• financial modelling
• scenario modelling

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