Finance Manager, FP&A

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. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people. Dyson launched in Mexico in 2018 as our first step into Latin America. Our Mexico office is located in the Polanco area of Mexico City and our expanding team is a key contributor in helping us deliver growth throughout the market. 

We're committed to our campus culture and want to have people collaborating, developing, and learning from each other. By having everyone on campus together, we have been able to nurture a fantastic social and dynamic environment.

About the Role:

The Finance Manager is responsible for supporting our regional growth ambitions in Latin America. Responsible for providing integrated financial guidance and insight to support business strategy development, decision making and performance management.

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Drive the Financial Planning & Forecasting process with business partners to achieve business goals (FY Plan, Outlooks, Budgets).
• Work alongside the regional FP&A team, Controlling and Financial Services to produce monthly P&L reports that provide financial insights and variance analysis on monthly results vs forecast, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Multiple financial scenarios: P&L (Topline, Channels, Categories), Taxes, Logistics, Distribution, Investments, Overheads and others, preforming ad hoc financial analysis to support key business decisions.
• Manages risk and opportunities to deliver the business plan, Influences business partners to make the right decisions.
• Support accounting, statutory and tax processes by providing complete and robust financial information.
• New Business Analysis to support decision making.

Sales Finance

• Conduct profitability analysis by market by key customers/doors for physical retail with recommendations to improve (Trade Investment ROI and Promotional ROI insights).
• Deliver insightful analysis that supports commercial decisions.
• Create monthly balance reconciliations by market by channel and customer.
• Create and control report of Price and Promotions for Indirect and Direct Channels (Net revenue management)
• Partner with Sales team to provide finance support and analytics.

Marketing Finance

• Lead the financial planning of BBI (Brand Building Investment) expenses (forecasting / budgeting).
• Work in partnership with the Marketing teams, supporting ROI analysis that informs the right decisions on future expenditure and driving cost control to improve profitability.
• Drive clarity and accountability on BBI budgets across the teams, establishing suitable controls to support them.

Continuous Improvement

• Seek opportunity to improve the process, systems, reporting and analytics; Be able to present recommendations and influence organization to implement change.

About You:

What you'll need to have-

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or equivalent (MBA is a plus).
• Has obtained a recognized accounting qualification or in the in the final stages of working towards it
• 8+ years of experience, preferably at multi-national company in regional roles (LATAM); FP&A, Financial Planning, Commercial Finance, Others.
• Excellent communication and interaction with teams outside Mexico

• Excellent knowledge and technical skills in financial and management accounting (Forecasting, budgeting, and month end closing).
• Able to challenge all areas of activity and recommend new approaches to meet financial objectives.
• Strong financial system and business administration understanding.
• Excellent ability to problem solves along with solid analytical skills, understanding of the business process, and systems optimization.
• Hands-on: strategic thinker that also dives down into operational and execution.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced English and Spanish is a must.

It would be helpful if you also had some of these:

• SAP, OneStream and Anaplan experience is a plus.

Benefits:

At Dyson, how we reward you is linked to our high-performance culture. But it’s about more than salary and bonus. Through a package of financial, lifestyle and health benefits, we support whatever stage of life you’re in and the moments that matter.

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.