Finance Business Partner – Stores & People

About Us

We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares – we’re ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.

With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores. We operate the UK’s largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We’re also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our ‘The Edited Life’ ranges.

Our renewed purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.’ And we have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand’ ambitious about being a good company’, and ‘ambitious about profitable growth’. We’re focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment. This Role This role, sitting within our Business Finance team, will support in value creation within Dunelm’s Store Operations Teams through the delivery of enhanced reporting, forecasting and business partnering with a particular focus on managing the Store cost-base. The role will also focus on driving performance improvement across key Store KPI’s, managed through the Store Scorecard, with the candidate identifying trends, risks and opportunities for success. You’ll have strong analytical skills, a curious and commercial mindset, and a passion for driving performance and results across a large and growing business.

This role will involve:

• Dedicated Finance Business Partner for Store Operations, supporting on both revenue analysis and cost performance tracking, overseeing both financial and non-financial metrics and KPIs in relation to full Store P&L performance.
• Work closely with our Management Accounting Team to support a ‘no-surprises’ month-end, whilst ensuring performance is communicated, understood, and reviewed frequently by the business.
• Budgeting and forecasting for store-related costs, working closely with business owners to develop forecasts that are both realistic yet challenging, with a cost/sales-driver modelling approach.
• Seeking out opportunities for cost and risk reduction, challenging the business to work with a profitability mind-set at all times.
• Support and challenge the Stores & People team with investment cases considering both financial and commercial factors.
• Financial partner to our Store Director in terms of our balanced Scorecard – benchmarking performance and highlighting opportunities for improvement, managing store polarisation and providing insight on the effectiveness of the scheme in relation to bonusable targets.
• This role will support our stakeholders who manage the ‘Digital-Bridge’, which connects our stores to the trading on Dunelm.com. It is therefore crucial the candidate is proactive with Stakeholder management, building great relationships across both Finance and the business, ultimately becoming a key member of the team responsible for building growth & alignment opportunities that are financially sound and reviewed for success.
• The successful candidate must be a great business partner, able to manage competing priorities, and be expected to provide high quality analysis & insight which supports senior stakeholders in decision making and driving performance.