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About us
At Dyson, we believe everything could be better. Fuelled by frustration with things that don’t work properly and a relentless obsession with making them work better, we’ve spent the last 27 years pioneering inventions and continually improving. We’re growing fast. And our ambition is huge. But it’s not simply about more people and more profit. Dyson is all about pioneering ideas and new technologies. It’s about inventing the future. Our philosophy remains the same as it was 27 years ago when James Dyson invented the first cyclonic vacuum cleaner. We remain family-owned. We don’t bow to outside shareholders or report to the stock exchange. Instead, we plot our path, unshackled from conventional thinking. At Dyson, we constantly strive to find more pioneering ways to solve everyday problems.
About the role
In this role based in Singapore, you will report to the Global Procurement Head of Finance and support the Indirect Procurement tam with financial analysis and insight that supports the delivery of the Procurement strategic objectives; we play a key part in Dyson overall success.
The role assumes active engagement in senior management decision-making processes including attendance at senior management meetings and insights-based advisory during key decision-making moments; in this capacity, you will work closely with Indirect Procurement organization in partnership key corporate functions such as IT, Marketing, Legal etc by proving them with data-based insights, summarising financial models and presenting potential scenarios.
The focus is to drive savings initiatives and bring out the story behind the numbers and providing insights that inform decision-making around costs and supply to ensure we optimize the use of our financial resources and continue to improve profitability.
Core accountabilities:
Support the engagement framework between Finance, Indirect Procurement and corporate functions.
Develop and maintain financial model to support savings interlock process for budgeting, forecasting and cost analysis
Manage the savings interlock process focussing on Marketing, IT and Corp Services.
Analyse financial data related to indirect procurement activities to identify cost savings opportunities.
Partner with the Indirect Product team to refine data and reporting capabilities to aid in value added analytics including use of cost benchmarking metrics.
Ensuring compliance with financial policies, procedures and regulations in indirect procurement activities
About you
• At least 8 years to 10 years of relevant work experience
• Experience in manufacturing or cost finance is a plus
• Experience in rigorous financial analysis and comfortable with large database
• Excellent analytical ability and Excel spreadsheet skills
• Ability to understand concepts and ideas quickly and model data in meaningful ways
• Naturally Inquisitive - comfortable and willing to interrogate existing systems with large amounts of data for answers but accepts that not every query has an exact answer
• Proactive in proposing ideas to challenge status quo
• Experience in working across functions and cultures and dealing with overseas entities
• Excellent personal and business presentation skills, in particular the presentation of financial information to non-finance managers and directors
• Assertive and able to influence upwards and peers
• Good spoken & written English
• Has strong sense of operational discipline and ability to meet deadlines
• Ariba and Power BI skillset a plus
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.
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
