Summary
- Salary
- Competitive
- Team
- Finance
- Location
- Singapore - St James Power Station Headquarters
About Us
Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations, and more people.
Our APAC Finance team supports commercial performance across the Markets in the region.
About the Role
The Senior Commercial Finance Manager will act as a true strategic partner to the Asia Pacific Finance Director and Asia Pacific Leadership Team in accelerating Dyson’s growth.
This role is pivotal to our success and will report directly into our Asia Pacific Finance Director. You will play a key role in driving the financial performance of the region.
Responsibilities & Expectations
Be a strategic partner to business
- Own Asia Pacific budgeting and forecasting calendar to ensure Region meets company expectations
- Review monthly management reports and provide insights with value-adding analysis
- Maintain consistent reporting structure across the region to enable consolidation and quick decision making
- Partner with Asia Pacific Finance Director in P/L, B/S and Working capital management, highlighting the risk and ops
- Lead targets development/ expectation setting for the markets and functions to deliver company objective
- Working closely with Asia Pacific countries/ market stakeholders to develop and review the annual budget and forecast (LE) and monitoring and performance throughout the fiscal year
- Build strong partnerships with the Market Leadership Team, Market Finance organization
- Provide strategic inputs for the evaluation, development, implementation, and assessment of market business strategy
- Drive plans to maximize category value and deliver on our direct and controlled retail strategy with improved margin and profitability
- Partner with HR, Supply Chain, Demand Planning & Revenue Optimization, CoE marketing and Retail lead work on critical savings/ efficiencies ideas and business cases
- Challenge current ways of working, driving efficiencies and cost savings wherever possible and to set best practice in the region
- Provide regular performance insights to Asia Pacific leadership team to ensure business expansion and opportunities are being fully utilized
- Own Asia Pacific countries/ support functions overheads (APAC) budget, including actual analysis
- Champion competitor awareness and action planning to ensure pricing strategy remains competitive
Champion governance and compliance
- Oversee accounting, budgeting, financial reporting for the market
- Ensure compliance to local GAAP and internal controls
- Work collaboratively with global functions and markets to ensure governance and compliance is in place
About You
Professional experience
- Strong career progress to date in Accounting, Business or Finance in a multinational organization, ideally with 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
Critical leadership competencies
- Exceptional interpersonal communication and leadership skills, with the ability to communicate and manage staff at all levels
- A bias for action, able to work under pressure with high levels of resilience and drive, able to see the strategic big picture but also to roll up sleeves and get into the detail and delivery of financial projects
- Strong team player and sound management skills
- Role models the Dyson behaviors
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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.
