Senior Internal Auditor

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Internal Audit & Risk (IA&R) team at M&S, where you’ll be at the heart of shaping how we do business. You’ll work across a wide range of areas in the UK and internationally, giving you real breadth and variety in your role. As a trusted advisor, you’ll review and challenge how the business operates, support improvements to the control environment, and make a tangible impact during an exciting period of transformation.

What makes this role stand out is the mix of risk-based audit delivery, augmented with data analytics, giving you exposure to every corner of the business from commercial operations to group functions. If you’re looking for a role that blends challenge, quick-pace, variety, and the chance to influence a leading brand’s journey, this, is it.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead and support end-to-end audits across the business. Manage reviews from planning and risk assessment through fieldwork, reporting, and agreement of actions. Deliver high-quality audit outcomes within the agreed scope while demonstrating flexibility when needed.
• Draft and agree audit reports, clearly articulating risks, impacts and root causes, and developing practical actions with business partners.
• Use data analytics (DA) to enhance audit insight, working with the team’s IA DA expert.
• Engage business partners at all levels, building strong relationships, presenting findings and driving improvements.
• Contribute to audit planning, methodology evolution, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain quality standards and deliver against KPIs, contributing to the effective delivery of the Internal Audit plan.
• Work collaboratively with the risk team and other second line functions to bring insights and enhance the quality of audit work undertaken.
• Coach and mentor internal auditors, supporting their development.

Your skills and experience will include:

• Excellent Internal Audit experience across a wide variety of industries, ideally with a professional qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or IIA) or QBE.
• Strong understanding of risk and control methodologies.
• Experience or interest in data analytics.
• Background in retail, programme assurance, or multi-channel environments is a plus, but not a requirement.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (5–10%).

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

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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