Purpose of role
This role strengthens the quality, consistency, and reliability of Dyson’s statutory reporting and financial close processes. As the business grows, the Finance Manager ensures our accounting policies, reporting structures, and statutory compliance are executed with clarity, discipline, and sound judgement. The role suits someone who brings structure, analytical depth, and a high bar for reporting integrity across a global environment.
Key Responsibilities
Group & Local Statutory Audits
- Support Group audit delivery, ensuring timely, accurate submissions with minimal issues.
- Coordinate global statutory audits with Shared Services and market teams.
- Improve audit efficiency through better documentation, clarity of processes, and embedding learnings.
- Manage day‑to‑day interactions with external auditors and align internal stakeholders on deliverables.
- Identify risks early and support resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Prepare and review statutory schedules, including dividend‑related submissions.
Technical Accounting
- Support IFRS impairment assessments and other technical reviews (revenue, leases, provisions, consolidation, FX).
- Prepare technical accounting papers for internal and auditor review.
- Assist with implementation of new standards (e.g., IFRS 18) and sustainability reporting requirements (CSRD, ISSB).
- Provide technical input on business transactions, restructures, and legal entity changes.
Accounting Policy & Reporting Governance
- Support the maintenance and refinement of the Group Statutory Accounting Policy to ensure consistent, IFRS‑aligned application globally.
- Review and track policy exceptions, ensuring they are well‑justified, documented, and appropriately managed.
- Partner with Shared Services and Markets to ensure reporting requirements and accounting interpretations are clearly understood and applied.
Skills & Experience
- Qualified accountant (CA/CPA/ACCA or equivalent) with 8+ years’ experience.
- Strong technical grounding in IFRS/SFRS and complex accounting matters.
- Solid experience in policy interpretation and implementation
- Strong experience in driving financial process improvements and governance
- Strong appreciation for reporting discipline, documentation quality, and data integrity.
- Skilled at working with shared services and global stakeholders.
- Clear communicator with the ability to simplify technical matters.
- Structured, detail‑oriented, analytical, and proactive.
Desirable
- Experience in multinational or matrix environments.
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA and OneStream.
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
- Qualified accountant (CA/CPA/ACCA or equivalent) with 8+ years' experience
- Strong technical grounding in IFRS and SFRS and complex accounting matters
- Solid experience in policy interpretation and implementation
- Strong experience in driving financial process improvements and governance
- Experience managing group and local statutory audits and liaising with external auditors
- Skilled at working with shared services and global stakeholders
- Clear communicator able to simplify technical matters
- Appreciation for reporting discipline, documentation quality, and data integrity
- Experience in multinational or matrix environments
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA
- Familiarity with OneStream
- Experience with implementation of new accounting standards and sustainability reporting (e.g., IFRS 18, CSRD, ISSB)
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.
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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.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a company match is consistently advertised on U.S. postings. This provides predictable retirement support across roles.
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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.
Dyson Insights
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
