Senior Finance Manager, Product & Innovation

Senior Finance Manager, Product & Innovation

Summary

Salary: Competitive
Team: Finance
Location: Singapore - Technology Centre

About us

At Dyson, we believe in the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement, raising the bar and achieving new heights. We’ve spent the last 27 years pioneering inventions and continually improving. We’re growing fast. Our ambition is huge, focusing on pioneering ideas and new technologies. It’s about inventing the future.

About the role

In this role based in Singapore, you will report to the Head of Finance, who has cost oversight of the existing product portfolio. Your role will lead financial analysis and insights that support the delivery of the Lifecycle Cost strategic objectives and saving targets, playing a key part in Dyson's overall success.

You will engage actively in senior management decision-making processes, including attendance at senior management meetings and providing insights-based advisory during key decision-making moments. In this capacity, you will work closely with the Innovation and Design Engineering leadership and partner with key corporate functions such as Commercials, Procurement, and Operations by providing them with data-based insights, summarizing financial models, and presenting potential scenarios.

The focus is to drive savings initiatives and provide insights that inform decision-making around costs and supply to optimize the use of our financial resources and continue to improve profitability.

• Responsible for the accuracy and timely DDU Cost Savings Report monthly.
• Lead month-end P&L meetings and discuss saving reconciliation with Group Finance and FP&A teams.
• Take accountability for the timely and accurate preparation of PCV reconciliation.
• Analyze financial results, highlighting risks, opportunities, and areas of focus to RDD/Design Leaders across Category.
• Partner with the Head of Finance in other finance groups to discuss cost savings realized and optimize financial outcomes.
• Support the DDU Cost Reduction Programme and act as a single point of contact for Finance across teams.
• Lead the review and management of our cost targets across categories.
• Provide financial insights and recommendations to senior management to support decision-making.

About you

• Demonstrated experience using extensive financial information to support executive-level decision making, developing and using advanced/complex financial models, and making business recommendations from the analysis of corporate financial statements.
• At least 10 years of working experience in finance (e.g., Controlling, FP&A, Market Commercial, Operations).
• A globally recognized professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA) with significant post-qualification experience.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.
• A bias for action, with high levels of resilience and drive, able to see the strategic big picture while also getting into the detail of financial projects.
• Energetic, engaging, and pacey, with high EQ and the ability to motivate and inspire in a matrixed environment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, negotiation, and interpersonal skills across all seniorities within the business.
• Culturally aware with an international mindset, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a complex matrix organization.
• Excellent organizational, planning, budget, and project management skills, able to manage conflicting priorities.
• A problem solver, creative, analytical, able to work under pressure and deliver results, energetic, engaging, positive, inquisitive, and resilient in Dyson’s overall business support.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other dimension of diversity.