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Finance Manager – Homeware & Furniture
MS Companies. Own financial performance across the Homeware & Furniture business area, providing insight and challenge to deliver sales, profit, stock and cash targets .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own financial performance across the Homeware & Furniture business area, providing insight and challenge to deliver 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, risks and performance-improvement actions
- Support stock and working capital management, optimising inventory levels across seasonal and core home ranges
- Deliver scenario modelling and business cases for new initiatives, category investments and growth opportunities
- Build relationships across Commercial, Digital, Marketing, Customer Insight and Finance teams to improve decision-making and business performance
- Partner with Buying, Merchandising and Trading teams to support profitable growth across Homeware & Furniture
Requirements
What you’ll need- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong post-qualified experience, ideally within retail, consumer goods or another fast-paced commercial environment
- Proven commercial finance and business partnering experience
- Ability to influence strategic decisions and challenge senior stakeholders
- Strong understanding of customer trends, trading performance and market dynamics
- Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
- Ability to turn complex data into actionable commercial insight
- Collaborative, proactive and relationship-focused
- Confidence building partnerships across Buying, Merchandising, Trading and Finance teams
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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
- Office-based collaboration three days a week