Finance Manager, Design for Excellence

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute seeks a senior finance professional based in Singapore to support the DFx agenda for Design for Excellence. You will partner with Supply Chain and RDD leaders to deliver financial insights, cost optimization, and robust investment analyses that drive strategic decisions.

You will build and govern financial models, present scenarios to senior leadership, and ensure measurable savings across projects while maintaining profitability and resource discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience building financial models and delivering insights for senior leadership.
• Proven ability to lead cost-optimization initiatives across complex supply chains.
• Ability to translate data into clear business cases and strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Partner DFx, Supply Chain and RDD leadership to drive strategic decision making.
• Lead cost optimization initiatives with governance and measurable savings.
• Develop robust business cases and investment analyses with should-cost insights.
• Support senior leadership decision forums with financial analysis and scenario options.
• Govern and track DFx savings programs to ensure benefits delivery.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost optimization

Scenario planning

Stakeholder management

Data storytelling

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

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 Supply Chain Finance Senior Manager and support the Supply Chain and RDD teams with financial analysis and insight that supports the delivery of the Design for Excellence (DFx) 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; by providing data-based insights, summarising financial models and presenting potential scenarios. The focus is to structure and 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:

• Partner DFx, Supply Chain and RDD Leadership to Drive Strategic Decision-Making: Partner with Supply Chain and RDD stakeholders, providing financial insights, scenario analysis, and recommendations that support the delivery of Design for Excellence (DFx) objectives
• Identify, Structure and Drive Cost Optimisation Initiatives Lead the evaluation, prioritisation, and financial governance of cost reduction and value engineering opportunities, ensuring initiatives deliver sustainable savings while balancing product performance, quality, supply continuity, and customer outcomes.
• Develop Robust Business Cases and Investment Analysis Build financial models and assess strategic opportunities by leveraging should cost analysis for targeted opportunities by Product and model
• Support Senior Leadership Decision Forums Actively contribute to senior management meetings and strategic reviews by presenting financial analysis, summarising options, highlighting risks and opportunities, and facilitating informed decision-making.
• Drive Financial Governance of DFx Savings Programmes Establish and maintain robust tracking, validation, and reporting of savings initiatives, ensuring financial benefits are measurable, accurately recorded, and delivered in line with business commitments.

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.
• Strong team player and sound management skills - visible and inspiring leadership style at both a local and international/regional level. Helping to manage, develop, up-skill and promote a best-in‑class function.
• 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

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.

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 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.