Group FP&A Manager – Finance Business Intelligence
About the role
The Group FP&A team is an integral part of Dyson’s Finance community and is supported by data-driven analysis and insights. The Finance Business Intelligence (FBI) team delivers reporting and analysis of performance across the group, both financial and non-financial, liaising directly with global teams to provide support to the Dyson Executive Team. As a Centre of Excellence for Financial Analysis and Data, we deliver strategic insights and future-ready solutions to enable data-driven decision making as a valued and credible business partner.
Our strategic focus areas include:
- Data: Enterprise-wide curated data available for cross functional analytics
- Visualization: Self serve, interactive, dynamic content
- Data Culture: Embed data in everything we do
- People: Individual growth = team growth
The FBI team has 3 core pillars – Data, Visualisation and Finance, and team members are developed with a specialisation track, but with strong working knowledge across all pillars. Team Managers will have responsibility over the delivery roadmap and governance, driving collaborative solutions and the role of being the subject matter expert in their respective pillars.
You will have a strong technical understanding of data platforms, visualization tools and financial reporting, with advanced proficiency in at least one of the aspects. Adaptability, flexibility and resourcefulness in delivering a challenging roadmap whilst our data landscape is transforming, will be key to your success.
We use Google Cloud Platform and Tableau as our main technologies, but also have an estate of data and reporting platforms. Application of these tools, or similar, to design solutions is key. There may also be times that you need to get hands on with this technology, delivering content yourself and exploring new functionality available in our toolset.
You will be highly organised, enjoy delivering analytics solutions and managing resources to ensure deadlines are met and the quality of content served remains high.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for:
- Delivering our FBI roadmap in either Data/Visualisation/Finance Transformation Projects
- Prioritisation of project deliverables and resourcing in the specific area of responsibility
- Drive collaboration and value-add as the subject matter expert for the specific area of responsibility
- Define and govern the design, development and implementation of key policies and processes
- Collaborating with the Group IT, Group Finance Systems and Group Reporting teams across the business to deliver mutually beneficial analytics products
- Championing the use of data and analytics, driving adoption and growth in the user base
- Leading FBI training and sharing sessions for the user base
- Mentoring and developing the team
About you
- Finance background is essential, ideally with a relevant Finance degree, or a designation from a recognised accounting body (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Good commercial awareness, with knowledge of Financial data
- Strong delivery skills - organised, delivery focused and deadline driven
- Demonstrated success of project delivery / business change within BI and Visualisation tools
- Determined to identify solutions and be prepared to overcome obstacles to follow through plans to completion
- Ability to communicate complex ideas simply, and to translate user requirements into solutions
- Ability to work with data engineers to fine tune data pipeline for analytics
- Experience using Tableau is essential
- Applied knowledge of a range of data platforms such as SQL Server, GCP, SAP BW, S4/HANA
- Basic SQL skills
- Passionate about data and/or visualisation best practice, driving data-culture in terms of adoption, self-serve and growth in user base
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.
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What We Do
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 over 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
