Dyson Hiring for Finance Manager Job at Dubai Full Time

Dyson is a global technology enterprise with a unique philosophy – to solve problems that others ignore. It transforms every category it enters with radical and iconic re-inventions that work, perform, and look very different.

At Dyson we believe everything could be better. Fueled by a frustration with things that don’t work properly and a relentless obsession with making them work better, we’ve spent the last 30 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 30 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 own path, unshackled from conventional thinking. At Dyson we constantly strive to find more pioneering ways to solve everyday problems.

Overview Dyson MEA

Dyson has set a regional office for Middle East and Africa in Dubai, UAE. The Dubai office provides the vision and strategy for Dyson’s business in MEA, covering key markets such as UAE, Saudi Arabia, and growth/new markets such as South Africa. The Dyson MEA team is a dynamic and ambitious team that challenges convention every single day and pushes boundaries to help grow the Dyson business in MEA and help the markets that fall under its remit reach its full potential.

Dyson is different. Our culture is unique. It’s not for everyone, but if you thrive on challenge and are excited by change then it could be for you.

About the role

In this role based in our MEA Head office in Dubai you will be a member of the MEA Leadership Team, and of the Distributor & Emerging Markets (D&EM) Finance team, reporting to the Head of Finance D&EM who is based in Amsterdam. The team is responsible for FP&A and Commercial Business Partnering activities across two regions, namely Central & Emerging Europe Distributors (CEED) and Middle East & Africa (MEA). Your primary responsibility will be to business partner with the market team to deliver on our 5-year plan ambition, by providing insights to ensure optimal use of our financial resources. In addition, you will streamline and standardize processes and reporting in collaboration with the wider D&EM team, and drive the transformation agenda to realize business model evolution and geographical expansion across Africa & the Middle East. You will work closely with the Senior Finance Analyst D&EM based in Amsterdam, who is supporting the MEA team on cost controlling (Marketing & Overhead costs).

Key areas of responsibility include:

First class business support to deliver on objectives

• Work closely with commercial business partners (MD, MEA LT and wider commercial team) to assure delivery of volume and Trading Profit commitment across all markets, and assure financial processes enable commercial success.

• Partner with our distributors to hold them to account on delivering against the agreed targets.

Streamline D&EM Finance processes & develop fit for purpose reporting

• Secure support from Dyson Business Services (DBS) on operational finance processes & reporting, and perform handover towards the DBS team.

• Automate & harmonize Gross Margin forecasting across distributor markets. Lead in-the-month, Budget and LE forecasting processes.

• Leverage ways of working from cluster finance teams in Amsterdam office, and tailor to Distributor markets.

Drive transformation agenda

• Develop business cases for business model evolution (ie. new entities) in existing distributor markets and prepare business cases to enter new territories.

• Support in updating the transformation roadmap for MEA for the next 5 years, in cooperation with the MDs and HoF

Support on Statutory tasks

Assist with Statutory audit and other statutory submissions

About you

• A bias for action, with high levels of resilience and drive, able to see the strategic big picture but also hands-on mentality and willingness to roll up your sleeves and get into the detail and delivery of financial activities & 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 commercial business partner – commercially minded with a good grasp of key financial drivers, strong analytical skills and experience working with senior stakeholders.

• 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, resilient, prepared to see through plans and overcome objections – and yet flexible around change and comfortable with ambiguity; a quick and agile learner.

• Affinity with process improvement in a complex & fast paced environment.

• Track record in working with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI). Creative thinker

• Ideally, you will have knowledge of the MEA market

Benefits

• Company Bonus Scheme OR Performance related bonus

• Discount on Dyson products

• 26 days annual holiday plan

• EAP (Employee Assistant Programme)

• Life Assurance Plan

• Transportation allowance

• Health Insurance

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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.