About the Role
Senior Financial Analyst – FP&A (Cost Analytics Lead)
The Senior Financial Analyst will support Dyson’s US business through end‑to‑end FP&A ownership, acting as a trusted commercial finance partner and the analytical lead for cost, margin, and performance management.
In addition to core FP&A responsibilities, this role is accountable for elevating the quality of commercial insight, cost transparency, and analytical rigor across planning, forecasting, and performance reviews—ensuring leaders have clear visibility into trade‑offs, risks, and value creation opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
Commercial Business Partnering
Act as a primary finance business partner to functional leaders, supporting commercial and operational decisions with strong financial insight.
Challenge assumptions, highlight trade‑offs, and influence decisions related to cost, margin, pricing, and investment priorities.
Translate business plans into financial outcomes and ensure alignment with overall performance objectives.
Support decision‑making with clear, fact‑based recommendations grounded in data.
FP&A Ownership & Cost Management
Own core FP&A cycles including budgeting, forecasting, long‑range planning, and monthly performance management.
Lead cost planning and cost control activities, ensuring transparency, accountability, and alignment to targets.
Develop and maintain detailed cost models to understand fixed vs. variable drivers and sensitivity to volume or mix.
Partner with stakeholders to identify cost risks, mitigation actions, and efficiency opportunities.
Analytical Leadership & Performance Insight
Serve as the analytical lead for FP&A deliverables, setting standards for modeling depth, insight quality, and storytelling.
Perform deep‑dive analysis into variances, trends, and performance drivers, with a focus on margin and cost efficiency.
Build advanced scenario and sensitivity models to assess commercial outcomes and downside/upside risks.
Deliver executive‑ready insights with concise narratives, visuals, and recommended actions.
Reporting, Dashboards & Automation
Own the design and continuous improvement of management reporting and dashboards used to track commercial and cost performance.
Improve efficiency and scalability of FP&A reporting through automation, standardization, and improved data structures.
Leverage AI‑enabled tools to accelerate analysis, scenario modeling, variance investigation, and management reporting.
Ensure consistent assumptions, definitions, and calculation logic across plans, forecasts, and actuals.
Reduce manual effort and reporting cycle time while improving clarity and accuracy.
Forecasting, Close & Performance Management
Lead forecasting and month‑end performance processes with a strong emphasis on analytical rigor and accountability.
Develop structured variance analysis versus budget, forecast, and prior periods, clearly explaining drivers.
Ensure forecasts reflect current business conditions, risks, and mitigation actions.
Maintain strong controls and documentation around assumptions and outputs.
Systems, Data & Continuous Improvement
Partner with Finance Systems & IT teams to enhance planning, reporting, and analytics tools.
Act as a key FP&A user in system enhancements and upgrades, particularly those impacting cost and performance reporting.
Apply a responsible and critical approach to AI usage, validating outputs and ensuring data accuracy and governance.
Identify process gaps, data issues, and inefficiencies, and lead improvements end‑to‑end. Promote best practices in financial modeling, reporting design, data visualization, and analytics.
About You
Experience & Background
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
4–7 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or cost‑focused finance roles.
Proven experience partnering with business leaders and influencing decisions related to cost, margin, or investment.
Technical & Analytical Skills
Advanced Excel expertise (complex models, cost drivers, scenario analysis, Power Query, automation).
Strong experience building FP&A models, cost frameworks, and management reporting. Comfortable using AI‑powered tools to support financial analysis, reporting, and productivity.
Experience with BI and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Solid understanding of ERP and planning systems and financial data structures. High standards for accuracy, controls, and analytical discipline.
Ways of Working
Commercially minded with a strong ownership mentality.
Comfortable balancing FP&A cadence with deep analytical work.
Confident challenging assumptions and discussing trade‑offs with stakeholders.
Proactive, detail‑oriented, and continuously focused on improving outcomes.
Strong communicator able to turn analysis into action.
Compensation: $103,200 - $129,000 annually + bonus opportunity
BenefitsAt 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.
Financial benefits:
• 401K with up to a 4% match
• Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D
• Flexible Savings Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
Lifestyle benefits:
• Competitive Paid Time Off Benefits including Separate Holiday, Sick, and Vacation Time
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (applicable areas only)
• Generous Child Care Leave Program
• Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Dyson Product Discounts
Health benefits:
• Multi-Level Healthcare Coverage Options
• Vision & Dental Coverage
• Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
#LI-ONSITE
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
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 4-7 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or cost-focused finance roles
- Advanced Excel expertise
- Strong experience building FP&A models and management reporting
- Experience with BI and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
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
