Senior Finance Manager

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About us

At Dyson, we believe everything could be better. Fuelled by frustration with things that don’t work properly and a relentless obsession with making them work better, we’ve spent the last 27 years pioneering inventions and continually improving. We’re growing fast. And our ambition is huge. But it’s not simply about more people and more profit. Dyson is all about pioneering ideas and new technologies. It’s about inventing the future. Our philosophy remains the same as it was 27 years ago when James Dyson invented the first cyclonic vacuum cleaner. We remain family-owned. We don’t bow to outside shareholders or report to the stock exchange. Instead, we plot our path, unshackled from conventional thinking. At Dyson, we constantly strive to find more pioneering ways to solve everyday problems.

About the role

In this role based in Singapore, you will report to the Global Procurement Head of Finance and support the Indirect Procurement tam with financial analysis and insight that supports the delivery of the Procurement strategic objectives; we play a key part in Dyson overall success.

The role assumes active engagement in senior management decision-making processes including attendance at senior management meetings and insights-based advisory during key decision-making moments; in this capacity, you will work closely with Indirect Procurement organization in partnership key corporate functions such as IT, Marketing, Legal etc by proving them with data-based insights, summarising financial models and presenting potential scenarios.

The focus is to drive savings initiatives and bring out the story behind the numbers and providing insights that inform decision-making around costs and supply to ensure we optimize the use of our financial resources and continue to improve profitability.

Core accountabilities:

• Support the engagement framework between Finance, Indirect Procurement and corporate functions.

• Develop and maintain financial model to support savings interlock process for budgeting, forecasting and cost analysis

• Manage the savings interlock process focussing on Marketing, IT and Corp Services.

• Analyse financial data related to indirect procurement activities to identify cost savings opportunities.

• Partner with the Indirect Product team to refine data and reporting capabilities to aid in value added analytics including use of cost benchmarking metrics.

• Ensuring compliance with financial policies, procedures and regulations in indirect procurement activities

About you

•         At least 8 years to 10 years of relevant work experience

•         Experience in manufacturing or cost finance is a plus

•         Experience in rigorous financial analysis and comfortable with large database

•         Excellent analytical ability and Excel spreadsheet skills

•         Ability to understand concepts and ideas quickly and model data in meaningful ways

•         Naturally Inquisitive - comfortable and willing to interrogate existing systems with large amounts of data for answers but accepts that not every query has an exact answer

•         Proactive in proposing ideas to challenge status quo  

•         Experience in working across functions and cultures and dealing with overseas entities

•         Excellent personal and business presentation skills, in particular the presentation of financial information to non-finance managers and directors

•         Assertive and able to influence upwards and peers

•         Good spoken & written English 

•         Has strong sense of operational discipline and ability to meet deadlines

•         Ariba and Power BI skillset a plus

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.