Head of Finance - Product and Innovation

Head of Finance - Product and Innovation

Summary

Salary: Competitive

Team: Finance

Location: Singapore - Technology Centre

About us

At Dyson, we believe in the relentless pursuit of continuous improvement, raising the bar and achieving new heights. 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 Finance Director, Product and Innovation whose scope covers Dyson’s portfolio of products, spanning Beauty, Floorcare, Environmental Care and Audio. You will be joining at a pivotal time in Dyson as you lead with your financial analysis and insights to deliver to the Company’s Objective of optimizing product cost across its entire product lifecycle and portfolio.

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 stakeholders from across Design Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement & Sourcing. The focus is to drive savings initiatives, bring in industry best practices, guide decision making via solid financial analysis, business cases to inform decision-making around product cost decisions to ensure we optimize the use of our financial resources and continue to improve profitability.

1. Lead creation of portfolio product cost management lifecycle from New Product Development to End of Life.
2. Support the design and build of a team to manage product cost across the company.
3. Providing financial insights and recommendations to achieve cost savings and optimize financial outcomes.
4. Providing business cases to justify investment of cost savings projects and to better inform prioritization and trade-off decisions.
5. Lead the review and management of our cost targets and performance across product category and models.
6. Monitor and report cost performance to target, highlight risk and influence solutions.
7. Lead sprint teams cross-functionally and across multiple locations on cost savings initiatives.
8. Leading and mentoring a team of finance professionals.

About you

At least 12 years of relevant work experience.

Able to demonstrate previous experience of using extensive financial information to support executive level decision making, developing, and using advanced/complex financial models, and making business recommendations from the analysis of corporate financial statements.

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.

Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and interpersonal skills, across all seniorities within a business.

Energetic, engaging with ability to motivate and inspire in a matrixed environment.

Clear communicator; decisive and excellent influencer.

Able to challenge all areas of activity 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.

Assertive, decisive, prepared to see through plans and overcome objections - and yet flexible around change and comfortable with ambiguity, a quick and agile learner.

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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.