Finance Manager - Property & Format
Role Overview
The Finance Manager is the primary finance business partner to Dunelm's Property and Format teams.
The role focuses on profitable growth across the store estate, including new stores and refits.
The role can shape investment practices, commercial decision-making, and measurement of returns.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Finance Manager is the primary finance business partner to Dunelm's Property and Format teams.
The role focuses on profitable growth across the store estate, including new stores and refits.
The role can shape investment practices, commercial decision-making, and measurement of returns.
Work arrangement
- Dunelm describes the business as hybrid, with three days per week in the office or on-site.
Business Finance Team
The team produces weekly and monthly reports and insight for trading, operational control, and decision-making.
The team sets targets with the business and provides independent views of forecasts and trends.
The team holds the business to account for targets and manages risks and opportunities.
The team supports and challenges tactical and strategic decisions, including financial and post-investment appraisal.
The team seeks to optimize profitability, return on investment, and use of resources.
The team connects business areas, unblocks issues, and structures priorities and actions.
What you'll be doing
- Act as primary finance business partner to Property and Format, building trusted relationships and providing commercial insight and challenge.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve store profitability, investment returns, and property cost efficiency.
- Support profitable growth across the store estate, particularly opening new stores and refitting existing stores.
- Lead appraisals of new store, refit, and other property investments, assessing costs, benefits, risks, payback, and returns.
- Challenge investment-proposal assumptions and help stakeholders make informed choices.
- Lead post-implementation reviews, compare actual results with business cases, challenge underperformance, and agree improvement actions.
- Improve methods, models, and governance for business cases, performance assessment, and tracking investment returns.
- Own the end-to-end view of property costs, including month-end reporting and regular forecast updates.
- Partner with executive and leadership-team colleagues on projects and coordinate issues and opportunities across the operation.
Requirements
- The provided description does not state specific candidate qualifications or experience requirements.
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