Finance Director, DACH

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Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEU
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Appliances • Manufacturing
The Role
Leads Dyson’s DACH cluster finance team in Cologne, owning P&L performance, balance sheet integrity, working capital, strategic planning, forecasting, financial governance, and commercial decision support. Partners with senior leadership across channels and categories, identifies risks and opportunities, strengthens reporting and controls, and develops finance and non-finance talent. The role requires an experienced commercial finance leader capable of influencing stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
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About us

Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better.

The Revenue Finance team partners the business to drive sustainable growth and profitability across multiple markets, categories and routes to market, while building strong financial capability and future leaders.

About the role

Based in Cologne, you will report to the Global Revenue Performance, Senior Finance Director and lead the DACH cluster finance team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the cluster continues to grow profitably, providing clear commercial leadership and robust financial governance.

You will be a member of the global finance leadership team, helping to set the direction for finance across our markets and contributing strongly to talent development. Working in close partnership with DACH leadership teams, you will lead the strategic planning process, drive commercial decision‑making, and ensure optimal use of financial resources. You will have full accountability for P&L performance, balance sheet integrity and working capital management across the cluster.

Key responsibilities:

  • Business partner DACH leadership teams on commercial strategy across all channels and categories, providing challenge, insight and support.
  • Own P&L performance; identify and quantify risks and opportunities, proactively developing mitigation and value‑creation plans.
  • Maintain a clear and compelling narrative on business performance across sell‑out, sell‑in, trade stock, P&L, balance sheet and working capital.
  • Lead the strategic planning and forecasting process, ensuring decisions align to the strategic plan and are grounded in high‑quality insight.
  • Collaborate closely with cluster, regional and group finance teams to strengthen processes, controls and reporting.
  • Coach, develop and inspire the DACH finance team, supporting career development and building a high‑performing, future‑ready function.
  • Drive financial capability beyond finance by enabling non‑finance leaders through training, tools and day‑to‑day partnership.
About you
  • An experienced finance leader with strong commercial acumen and a track record of leading market or cluster finance teams in a matrixed environment.
  • Action‑oriented, resilient and driven; able to see the strategic big picture while being comfortable diving into detail.
  • Energetic and engaging, with high EQ and the ability to influence and inspire senior stakeholders.
  • A clear communicator and decisive influencer, comfortable challenging established ways of working.
  • Commercially minded, with a strong grasp of key financial drivers, performance management and contract discipline.
  • A credible thought partner with sound leadership and people‑development skills, committed to building best‑in‑class teams.
  • Assertive and outcome‑focused, yet flexible and adaptable in the face of change and ambiguity.
Reward

At Dyson, Reward goes beyond just salary and bonuses. Through a comprehensive package of Financial, Lifestyle, and Health Benefits, we provide support tailored to every stage of life and the moments that matter most.

Working policy

Our campus culture is built on connection—collaboration in person, shared creativity, and hands-on learning. That’s why we don’t offer a regular hybrid arrangement. Working side by side powers our best ideas, fuels belonging, and keeps us pushing boundaries together.

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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.

Skills Required

  • Experience as a finance leader
  • Track record of leading market or cluster finance teams in a matrixed environment
  • Strong commercial acumen and understanding of financial drivers
  • Experience with performance management and contract discipline
  • Ability to influence and inspire senior stakeholders
  • Strong communication and decisive influencing skills
  • Strategic thinking combined with attention to detail
  • Leadership and people-development skills
  • Ability to challenge established ways of working
  • Assertive, outcome-focused, flexible, and adaptable approach

Dyson Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dyson and has not been reviewed or approved by Dyson.

  • Healthcare Strength Medical, dental, and vision offerings are broad, paired with company‑paid life and disability coverage, plus EAP, backup care, and wellness incentives. Employer‑funded healthcare dollars and premium‑discount or Lifestyle Spending Account options further enhance coverage value.
  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing programs, commuter benefits, and notable product discounts supplement core coverage. Wellness incentives and a Lifestyle Spending Account expand lifestyle support beyond medical plans.

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The Company
HQ: Singapore
13,356 Employees
Year Founded: 1993

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

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