And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.
At Dunelm, that’s what we do.
The FP&A and IR team is responsible for bringing together and helping to explain and forecast business performance, to internal and external audiences.
FP&A: the team is responsible for the co-ordination of processes to generate actual and forecast financial performance, including monthly flash and actuals, full-year outturn, quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and medium-term strategic plans. Investor Relations: the team is responsible for producing materials to communicate our performance and strategy to the external financial community. This includes regulatory market updates, annual reporting and interaction with analysts and investors, as well as maintaining company a view on consensus expectations.
The team works most closely with Business Finance, Core Finance, Communications, CoSec, as well as reporting to the Performance Exec, the Exec and the Board.
This role is a hybrid opportunity.
Co-ordinate the monthly flash process, ensuring we enter month end with a clear understanding of the expected performance in the period.
Lead month end process, including reviews, challenge FBPs to ensure understanding, and pull together the overall performance summary, including an awareness of key judgement areas
Support drafting of FP&A contributions to the monthly Performance Exec
Lead and own production of the monthly Management Accounts pack
Manage the monthly outturn process, clearly communicating risks and opportunities
Co-ordinate the budget and forecast processes, issuing clear timelines, templates and guidance to the Finance team
Challenge in forecast reviews, ensuring alignment with wider awareness of business risks and opportunities
Assist with other ad hoc analysis as required
Curious and eager to understand, building up a high level of understanding of the business and ensuring that all sources of information are consistent
Ability to distil complex information into a simple story using both financial tables / charts and narrative
Communicating – seeing through complex financial information and presenting it in a clear and concise way, through the use of tables and / or narrative
Challenging – to ensure accuracy, understanding and the appropriate level of stretch in performance
Making it happen – achieving required end result, often while needing to be flexible given competing priorities and challenges
We recognise the value and importance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neuro-diversity, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education.