Finance Business Partner - ESG

Overview

Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly  Dunelm, that’s what we do. We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we've created makes this a place you'll feel right at home too.

We are the UK’s Number One homewares retailer offering c85,000 products building a consumer-focused total retail business that delights customers through our multichannel operation.

We are ambitious in our plans to drive further expansion of the business to more customers, shopping more frequently, with more choice, enhanced digital and physical services, and new capabilities to innovate and operate at pace in a fast-changing landscape. In developing the business for the long-term benefit of our customers, we are investing in our supply chain, stores and technology to improve the customer proposition as we move forward.

Our Finance team sits at the heart of strategic decision-making, working hand-in-hand with trading and operational teams to drive commercial success. We don’t just manage the numbers – we make them meaningful. From customer transactions and procurement to financial reporting, we deliver insights that uncover trends, spot opportunities, and highlight risks.

With around 90 colleagues across UK and Ireland Group Finance, we offer a unique mix of breadth and depth. Our lean structure means every role is varied and impactful, while our scale gives you plenty of room to grow and explore different areas of finance.

We’re not just supporting the business – we’re shaping it. As Finance evolves, we’re moving beyond transactional tasks to become strategic thinkers. Our team is transforming into proactive, cross-functional advisors who use data to tell compelling stories and influence decisions.

Right now, we’re embarking on a major finance transformation, including the implementation of SAP S/4

HANA. This is a pivotal moment to modernise systems, enhance processes, and redefine how Finance operates across the business.

If you’re passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and ready to help shape the future of Finance, we’d love to hear from you.

• The maintenance and continuous improvement of financial impact modelling for climate-related and other sustainability risks.
• Owning and delivering several key outputs required to fulfil our external reporting obligations in areas such as GHG emissions, Packaging Producer Responsibilities, Energy Consumption.
• The development of scenario models to provide insight and target actions over a range of planning horizons to inform our Transition Planning for GHG reduction.
• The continued development of our GHG emissions reporting capabilities and data management plan, working with the team and other stakeholders to ensure regular, efficient, accurate, actionable and auditable outputs.
• Robustly documenting methods, processes and assumptions associated with all reporting activities, producing highly communicable & auditable outputs.
• Proactively supporting the ESG Reporting team with advancing the ESG agenda across the business through building good quality relationships and providing high quality insights & analyses.
• The development of robust, tangible targets and performance measures to help the business track delivery of the activities upon which our ESG commitments depend.
• Supporting the production of Quarterly ESG metrics in line with the evolving needs of the business.
• Supporting with the ongoing refinement of the various meetings, forums and outputs associated with ESG activities to ensure good quality transparent and effective governance is in place.
• Being a positive role model, providing support and encouragement to the Analysts in the team to help build team coherence and aid in their continuous personal development.

Whilst this will not be your average finance role, we are looking for many of the key qualities often associated with roles across finance functions, such as;

• Rigour & Review: You’ll have a high level of diligence and attention to detail…