About the Role
This position will act as a proactive business partner to the Global Commercial Finance Director, VP, Global Direct to Consumer and VP, Global Revenue Performance to drive profitable growth across the channels and markets .
Key Responsibilities & Expectations
Enable Regions and Markets to focus on profitable growth
- Deliver standardized reporting packages and dashboards to enable markets and regions to focus on execution and results.
- Provide insights and analysis to local market and regional leaders to optimize decision-making and performance outcomes.
- Drive process efficiencies to ensure markets and regions can focus on implementation instead of reporting or analysis tasks.
- Act as a central resource by supporting regional teams with ad-hoc analyses, standard frameworks, and tools.
Strategic Financial Insights & Decision Support for direct and indirect channels
- Collaborate with functional and operational stakeholders to identify and understand core business drivers.
- Conduct detailed financial modelling, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing to support strategic initiatives and assess key performance metrics.
- Develop actionable insights to drive business performance, improve financial metrics, and inform decision-making.
- Build and maintain rolling financial forecasts to provide accurate and timely financial outlooks.
- Own and manage strategic financial risk assessments and provide mitigation insights.
- Deliver recommendations and decision-support analysis to executive leadership based on data-driven insights.
Channel Governance & Center of Excellence (COE)
- Partner with the executive team to establish and implement financial guardrails for across channels, ensuring alignment with financial objectives.
- Collaborate with global, regional, and group finance teams to improve the quality, accuracy, and consistency of channel profit and loss reporting (P&L).
- Enhance existing cost allocation methodologies for channel-related expenses and resolve accounting inconsistencies across similar expense categories.
- Build and refine FP&A expertise and cross-channel tools, leveraging automation and business intelligence (BI) platforms.
Financial Leadership
- Drive profitable growth by providing strategic financial insights to business leaders.
- Coordinate the budget and forecast process with a focus on profitability.
Reporting and Analyses
- Perform ad-hoc reporting and analyses based on business needs, providing accurate and timely financial recommendations.
- Ensure clear and transparent reporting on investments and performance.
Knowledge & Experience
- Experience in Financial Analysis and Reporting, ideally in Sales or Brand Finance co-piloting roles.
- Experience in Financial Forecasting and deviation analyses including business interpretation.
- Very good understanding of P&L and Balance Sheet under local GAAP and IFRS.
- Solid understanding of the month-close process and how it impacts the P&L and B/S.
- Experienced in working in a multi-functional environment.
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in finance & accounting.
- Strong Excel skills, experience with SAP, Hyperion, or Onestream system (or any other reporting/forecasting platform).
Critical Skills
- Excellent financial leadership skills.
- Strong commercial acumen.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of hierarchy with multifunctional partners and external stakeholders (English skills mandatory).
- High level of mental agility – being able to ‘connect the dots’.
Professional Experience
- Strong career progress to date in Accounting, Business, or Finance in a multinational organization, ideally with an FMCG grounding.
- Previous responsibility of P&L delivery and sales with a strong grasp of the retail landscape (including trade terms and promotions).
- An effective and credible thought partner - commercially minded with a good grasp of key financial drivers and strong contract management skills.
- Professional accounting qualification is a plus, but not mandatory.
- Ability to navigate financial and non-financial data gathering and analytics
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
Top Skills
What We Do
At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds.
Dyson employs over 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education.
Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world.
The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas
