Transformation Finance Leader — Hybrid + Impact

Dunelm; Leicester Forest East; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Dunelm is seeking a Senior Finance Manager - Transformation to provide financial leadership and governance across the transformation portfolio. You will act as Finance Business Partner to the Transformation Programme Office, ensuring robust business cases and tracking delivery against financial and non-financial outcomes.

The role requires expertise in commercial finance, FP&A, and investment appraisal, with the ability to drive standards, challenge assumptions, and partner with senior

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant, or equivalent senior-level finance experience.
• Strong experience in commercial finance, FP&A, finance business partnering, investment appraisal or transformation finance.
• Demonstrable experience developing and challenging business cases, including benefits, risk and sensitivity analysis.
• Ability to build integrated financial models and translate complex information into decision-useful insight.
• Experience of portfolio governance, stage gates, performance reporting and post-investment review is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and the financial implications of change programmes.
• Confident operating with senior stakeholders and constructively challenging assumptions and delivery performance.

Responsibilities

• Implement and continuously improve best-practice finance governance within the TPO, giving workstream leads clear expectations and driving compliance with agreed processes.
• Act as the financial gatekeeper for transformation initiatives, defining the quality, structure and evidence required before proposals progress through stage gates.
• Own the end-to-end financial stage-gating process, aligned to investment approval frameworks and executive decision-making requirements.
• Define and enforce consistent business case methodology, including investment appraisal, assumptions, benefits articulation, risk assessment and sensitivity analysis.
• Challenge financial inputs, assumptions and valuation logic, partnering with Business Finance teams and initiative owners to make proposals robust, comparable and decision-ready.
• Monitor programme costs and benefits, reporting milestones, risks and opportunities; challenge stakeholders to drive performance and promote consistency and quality across the programme.
• Build and maintain a live model providing a rolling view of actual and forecast performance at portfolio and workstream level, incorporating key financial and non-financial outcomes.
• Establish a consistent performance measurement framework for in-flight initiatives and identify emerging risks, opportunities and deviations early.
• Lead post-investment reviews, objectively assessing benefits realisation, capturing learning and reinforcing accountability.
• Represent Finance as a core TPO member, providing insight, challenge and assurance to programme leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Prepare clear, concise and influential financial materials for the TPO, Transformation Governance Board, Executive team, Board and programme sponsors.
• Own the budget and forecast for non-workstream transformation costs, including relevant internal and technology costs where applicable.
• Act as the key interface between Business Finance, FP&A and the wider business, ensuring transformation impacts are reflected consistently in plans, forecasts and reported performance.
• Build financial capability across the organisation in investment thinking, value tracking and disciplined capital allocation.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Commercial finance

FP&A

Investment appraisal

Transformation finance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Dunelm is seeking a Senior Finance Manager - Transformation to provide financial leadership and governance across the transformation portfolio. You will act as Finance Business Partner to the Transformation Programme Office, ensuring robust business cases and tracking delivery against financial and non-financial outcomes.

The role requires expertise in commercial finance, FP&A, and investment appraisal, with the ability to drive standards, challenge assumptions, and partner with senior