Senior Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of the Finance strategy objective to achieve an ‘advanced’ controls maturity status. Act as the senior team presence in the Manchester Business Service Centre, business partnering the senior Finance leadership, including supporting with best practice for controls and processes, and advising on control changes as a result of new process or process change
• Lead and direct the SAP GRC team responsible for the SAP Access Control ruleset in SAP GRC. Along with responsibility for maintaining the Financial Reporting Controls management system (SureCloud), and PowerBI models that drive financial controls reporting
• Responsibility for driving the bi-annual Finance Risk register review with senior finance stakeholders, including the completion of associated actions
• Support the development and delivery of the annual Controls testing workplan, and reporting results to the Finance Leadership Team. This includes monitoring controls Key Risk Indicators to proactively identify processes experiencing issues with controls
• Delivery of our controls framework to mitigate risk of financial misstatements through identifying key controls, control owners, a robust program of controls testing and documentation, specifically:
  • Document “as is” accounting, process, and controls by working with process owners and IT colleagues
  • Document, track and agree changes to process and controls to remediate control weaknesses with key stakeholders
  • Document the “to be” accounting, process and controls; and train people to operate “to be” controls
  • Communicate and report the findings from testing to senior Finance and Business stakeholders as required
  • Monitor and drive the completion of any remediation arising from the process reviews and subsequent testing

Qualification & Requirements

Your skills and experience will include:

• Experienced Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA)
• Extensive financial controls experience (Industry in a similar role/Internal audit or Professional services advisory/External audit) – controls testing & design, best practice
• Strong knowledge of relevant technical standards e.g. US SOX, COSO, 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code changes, including Provision 29
• Shared services experience
• SAP S4 knowledge or experience advising on financial control impacts of ERP system change, desirable
• Experience/understanding of IT General Controls, desirable

Benefits

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.