Lead Finance Analyst

Dyson GmbH; Malmesbury; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company seeks a Finance Business Partner to support strategic initiatives and drive commercial performance. You will collaborate with key stakeholders, manage customer spend, and provide valuable financial insights to enhance profitability. Ideal candidates will possess strong financial acumen, communication skills, and experience in a fast-paced environment, with a qualification as an accountant. Join a diverse team in Malmesbury to make impactful contributions to the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with investment appraisal and financial modelling of commercial decisions.
• Indirect retail sales business partnering experience.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify drivers of gross margin delivery and provide insights.
• Collaborate continuously with commercial stakeholders.
• Support strategic growth drivers and manage customer spend.

Skills

Analytical ability

Team player

Communication skills

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Tools

SAP

OneStream

Job description

This is a key role within the GB&I Finance team, supporting the Indirect Commercial team, which is a critical pillar for the future of the market. The position will play a crucial part in facilitating the strategic revamp of the GB&I market, which will be essential to achieving ambitious commercial and financial goals over the next few years.

You will report to the GB&I Senior Finance manager and serve as the key finance business partner. The role is based in the Malmesbury &/or London offices.

Main Accountabilities

• Gross Margin Delivery: Identify drivers of gross margin delivery, providing value-adding insight to optimise plans.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Maintain continuous dialogue and collaboration with commercial stakeholders (Head of Sales and sales team) , guiding them through internal processes.
• Risk & Opportunity Alignment: Align key stakeholders to risks and opportunities, where appropriate.
• Planning Cycle: Play an active role in the monthly planning cycle, ensuring commercial teams understand and adhere to planning assumptions to build a coherent forward-looking view.
• Growth Support: Support strategic growth drivers.
• Team Development: Help upskill commercial teams and create full P&L ownership.
• Customer Spend Management: Manage customer spend through Vistex and month-end journal postings, ensuring accuracy at the product level, as well as conducting variance analysis of actuals versus plan.

About You

• A bias for action, with high levels of resilience and drive, able to see the strategic big picture but also to roll sleeves up and get into the detail and delivery of financial projects.
• Energetic, engaging and pacey, with high EQ and the ability to motivate and inspire in a matrixed environment.
• Clear communicator; decisive and excellent influencer.
• Able to challenge all areas of activity, especially elements that ‘have always been done’ and recommend new approaches to meet financial objectives.
• An effective and credible thought partner - commercially minded with a good grasp of key financial drivers and strong contract management skills.
• Excellent analytical ability with a great attention to detail
• A team player with a positive, ‘will do’ attitude
• The ability to operate in a fast moving environment where plans often change on a weekly or even daily basis
• Good communication skills with the ability to make Financial information accessible to non-Financial leads
• Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritise workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
• Indirect Retail Sales business partnering experience
• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or close to being qualified
• Previous exposure to senior stakeholder management
• Experience with investment appraisal and financial modelling of commercial decisions
• Experience with SAP or OneStream

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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.