Senior Finance Analyst

at  Dyson

SUMMARY

Salary:
Competitive
Team:
Finance
Location:
United Kingdom - Malmesbury Office

ABOUT US

Dyson is a pioneering global technology company. We are all about better ideas and new technologies. We believe everything could be better. We are encouraged to think differently, challenge convention and be unafraid to make mistakes. We’re creative, collaborative, practical and enthusiastic. But most of all we’re hugely passionate about what we do.
Our energy, determination and success mean that our business continues to grow at a remarkable pace. We explore new opportunities wherever we find them and we’re investing heavily in our products, our people and our infrastructure to ensure that we remain ahead of our competitors and deliver the quality that our customers have come to expect from Dyson.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Global Overheads and CAPEX team covers Group Support Function, RDD and Ops. We are based in UK and Singapore to support our key stakeholders in these location. We business partner with various functions to facilitate their ability to deliver on their objectives within their budget – this includes managing their CAPEX, OPEX and People cost. We work closely with the business, Procurement team and management to optimise cost. We are looking for a collaborative individual who has strong stakeholder management skills as well as the initiative to drive change.

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is a qualified accountant with management reporting experience
• Has strong technical accounting capabilities (for example Big-4 trained)
• Has strong excel and system skills which promote efficient working, preferably experience using SAP
• Has experience working across multiple locations and functions
• Is experienced in month end closing as well as preparing accurate and timely reports and analysis
• Is experienced in managing different stakeholders and business partnering

You will:

• Have excellent interpersonal and business skills
• Be able to independently lead initiatives and people to successful outcomes, whether that be through peers, and / or business partners
• Naturally drive for results, look to add value and have an overall positive approach to solving problems
• Instinctively look to improve the control environment and make processes more efficient
• Be a strong communicator and influencer, both within finance and outside at all levels of the organisation
• Be naturally curious, accurate and high attention to detail
• Be a team player - keen to seek continuous improvement of people management skills
• Be comfortable working in a changing environment typical of a fast-growing business

This is an exciting role supporting our Head of Finance for IT; working with stakeholders across our business to deliver on the finance strategy for your relevant functional areas - optimising spend, monthly reporting, business partnering and forecast reporting and annual budge planning,

You will:

• Contribute to the forecast and annual budgeting process by working with your assigned functions
• Provide meaningful variance analysis, full understanding of the drivers to feed into group reporting
• Work with HR counterparts to understand People costs for your functions for month end, forecasting and budgeting purposes
• Work with the functions to understand the various cost drivers and optimize spend
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual management reporting, including month end closing reporting, monthly & quarterly forecast reporting, and annual budget planning for the Global Overheads and CAPEX function.
• Work on ad hoc tasks as they arise
• Support the Head of Finance as required
• Look after the cost for your assigned function
• Manage stakeholders including team members, finance peers, senior leaders within the function and HR team
• Ensure that your function meets their budget/forecast and work with them to optimize their spend