Overview
Finance Transformation Manager – SME Stock – Salford, Greater Manchester
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
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Summary
We’re looking for a Stock Subject Matter Expert to play a key role in one of the largest finance transformation programmes at M&S. As part of our SAP S/4HANA transfrmation, you’ll use your expertise in stock procurement, finance controls and end-to-end purchasing processes to help design and embed future ways of working across the business. This is an opportunity to combine deep finance and procurement knowledge with large-scale business transformation experience.
You’ll have the opportunity to help define how Finance and Procurement operate in the future, delivering process improvements, stronger controls and better business outcomes through one of M&S’s most significant transformation programmes.
Post the 3 year programme there will be further projects, as M&S continues to transform and drive change. There will be a variety of options including the Master Data team, the Continuous Improvement team as well as the roles in the Technology teams supporting Finance
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 do
- Lead the design of future-state stock procurement processes, including purchase order, good receipting, good issue, stock reconciliations, valuations including moving average price.
- Partner with Finance, Supply Chain and Technology teams to ensure SAP S/4HANA solutions support strong financial controls, accurate inventory accounting and efficient operational processes.
- Facilitate fit-to-standard workshops, challenge existing ways of working and help shape process decisions that balance business requirements with SAP best practice. Own business testing activity, including UAT, integration testing and defect resolution, ensuring solutions are fully validated before deployment.
- Support business readiness, training and change adoption, acting as a trusted SME throughout implementation and post go-live support.
- Post the programme there will be further projects, as M&S continues to transform and drive change. There are a variety of options including the Finance Stock team, the Continuous Improvement team as well as the roles it the Technology teams supporting Finance.
Who you are
- Significant experience across stock including operations and finance processes within a retail, consumer goods or complex commercial environment.
- Strong understanding of the financial impacts of stock activities, including inventory accounting, invoice matching, and financial controls.
- Experience working on SAP-enabled transformation programmes, ideally SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC or related enterprise platforms.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex business requirements into practical process and system solutions.
- Ideally a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or able to demonstrate substantial finance leadership and experience within stock processes.
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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