Head of Finance, Revenue Performance

About the Role

This position will act as a proactive business partner to the Global Commercial Finance Director, VP, Global Direct to Consumer and VP, Global Revenue Performance to drive profitable growth across the channels and markets.

Key Responsibilities & Expectations

Enable Regions and Markets to focus on profitable growth

• Deliver standardized reporting packages and dashboards to enable markets and regions to focus on execution and results.
• Provide insights and analysis to local market and regional leaders to optimize decision-making and performance outcomes.
• Drive process efficiencies to ensure markets and regions can focus on implementation instead of reporting or analysis tasks.
• Act as a central resource by supporting regional teams with ad-hoc analyses, standard frameworks, and tools.

Strategic Financial Insights & Decision Support for direct and indirect channels

• Collaborate with functional and operational stakeholders to identify and understand core business drivers.
• Conduct detailed financial modelling, scenario analysis, and sensitivity testing to support strategic initiatives and assess key performance metrics.
• Develop actionable insights to drive business performance, improve financial metrics, and inform decision-making.
• Build and maintain rolling financial forecasts to provide accurate and timely financial outlooks.
• Own and manage strategic financial risk assessments and provide mitigation insights.
• Deliver recommendations and decision-support analysis to executive leadership based on data-driven insights.

Channel Governance & Center of Excellence (COE)

• Partner with the executive team to establish and implement financial guardrails across channels, ensuring alignment with financial objectives.
• Collaborate with global, regional, and group finance teams to improve the quality, accuracy, and consistency of channel profit and loss reporting (P&L).
• Enhance existing cost allocation methodologies for channel-related expenses and resolve accounting inconsistencies across similar expense categories.
• Build and refine FP&A expertise and cross-channel tools, leveraging automation and business intelligence (BI) platforms.

Financial Leadership

• Drive profitable growth by providing strategic financial insights to business leaders.
• Coordinate the budget and forecast process with a focus on profitability.

Reporting and Analyses

• Perform ad-hoc reporting and analyses based on business needs, providing accurate and timely financial recommendations.
• Ensure clear and transparent reporting on investments and performance.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in Financial Analysis and Reporting, ideally in Sales or Brand Finance co-piloting roles.
• Experience in Financial Forecasting and deviation analyses including business interpretation.
• Very good understanding of P&L and Balance Sheet under local GAAP and IFRS.
• Solid understanding of the month-close process and how it impacts the P&L and B/S.
• Experienced in working in a multi-functional environment.
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in finance & accounting.
• Strong Excel skills, experience with SAP, Hyperion, or Onestream system (or any other reporting/forecasting platform).

Critical Skills

• Excellent financial leadership skills.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of hierarchy with multifunctional partners and external stakeholders (English skills mandatory).
• High level of mental agility – being able to ‘connect the dots’.

Professional Experience

• Strong career progress to date in Accounting, Business, or Finance in a multinational organization, ideally with an 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.

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.