Finance Team Leader - Invoice Processing & Payments

Summary

Are you a finance leader with a passion for operational excellence? At M&S, we’re looking for a Finance Team Leader to coordinate supplier payments and invoice processing, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong financial control across a high‑volume, high‑value operation. In this pivotal role, you’ll manage the end‑to‑end P2P process, including around 30 weekly supplier payment runs totalling approximately £250m. You’ll also lead a team responsible for processing c.3,000 invoices each week, driving efficient operations, robust controls, and continuous improvement across the P2P function.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing team to deliver accurate, timely processing of around 3,000 invoices per week
• Be responsible for weekly supplier payment runs (30 per week), ensuring compliance, completeness, and accuracy across total payments of approx. £250m
• Maintain a robust P2P control framework aligned to financial policies, regulatory standards, and audit requirements
• Own supplier account reconciliations, aged payables, and key payment‑related balance sheet accounts
• Drive continuous improvement across P2P processes, reducing risk and enhancing efficiency and supplier experience

Your skills and experience will include:

• A recognised accounting qualification (or equivalent experience)
• Strong technical expertise across the end‑to‑end Purchase‑to‑Pay process, ideally within a large or shared service environment
• Proven leadership capability, with a track record of developing teams and improving performance
• Excellent understanding of financial controls, reconciliations, and balance sheet ownership
• Strong communication, problem‑solving, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to use metrics to drive performance

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.

• 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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