Finance Reporting & Analytics Lead (Fixed term contract: till November 2023)

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 driven by progress and thrive on the challenge of relentless improvement. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge – more categories, more locations and more people.

Pioneering technology takes more than just inventive engineers. At Dyson, we take a problem-solving approach to everything we do. And across our support teams, we’re proud to be different. And importantly, we support change to maintain our rapid growth.

About the role

This role forms a critical part of success for the new established Dyson Business Services (DBS) and an enabler of the future operating model. This role reports to DBS Reporting Lead.

The DBS organization provides process and service excellence to support the Company with a goal of delivering strategic value, innovating and enhancing services over time to meet the changing needs of the business. The Reporting & Analytics Specialist (Finance Reporting Specialist) should be a strong and proactive reporting expert with a transformational mindset and reporting delivery record. This individual will deliver a range of reports, mostly in Finance function, as well creation of new reporting suites. As a result, this role will deliver transformative solutions, improve the way people work, enhance self service capability and elevate customer experience. This person will use their experience in process transformation and technology application to increase quality of reporting, enable analytics and data driven decision making.

Fixed term contract: till November 2023

The role is responsible for:

• Deliver scope of Reporting in line with Service Catalogue and stakeholder’s expectations

• Production of reporting packs, Finance reports and Board packs

• Consolidate data, reporting, and reviewing the financial and management performance reports

• Gather data, verify quality, provide reporting in an agreed format, in line with SLAs

• Analyze information and provide insights

• Change and Transformation

• Create and build new solutions to improve quality and satisfaction from the service

• Identify opportunities to deliver new value-added services, advanced analytics, data visualization and automation

• Update and modify existing reports to fit functional requirements and design principles for standardized reporting

• Champion standardization, simplification of ways of working, collaboration across teams and ease of interaction with markets and group functions

• Support design of new reporting suites

• Gather business and functional requirements, manage expectations, facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders

• Support agile development of reporting suites – from Minimal Viable Product to deployment

• Support design of the right SLAs and KPIs

• Transition of processes

• Participate in detail design of reports to be transitioned to GBS

• Participate in transition ensuring work is handed over timely and in line with expectations

• Ensure effective stabilization of reporting delivery in GBS

Skills and Experience:

• A good working knowledge in financial reporting, preparing management reporting packs and presentations

• You have financial and reporting background

• You have experience of data management, visualization, analytics and building reporting solutions, including creating standardized reporting suites

• You are capable of building dashboards and visualization solutions Energetic and assertive – you are able to present and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders, challenge their thinking, influence the outcome

• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have an analytical mindset

• You are thinking analytically and responsibly with willingness to learn new systems and processes;

• You have experience of using at least one of the visualizations and data extracting tools (Looker, Tableau or Power BI) Advanced MS Office knowledge, especially in MS Excel - VBA experience is a big plus

Benefits

Financial:

• Performance related bonus

• Life Assurance​

• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

• Pension scheme with competitive employer contributions

• Recognition Program

• Holiday Allowance

Lifestyle:

• Free fruit delivered for office staff, free coffee and tea

• Cafeteria Benefit – wellness programme, cinema tickets, Multisport card etc.

• Dyson on-site canteen with discount meals for employees

Health:

• Medical: Employee cover + opportunity to buy additional cover for family

• Employee Assistance Program for employee and dependents

• Reimbursement for costs of eyeglasses (every 2 years)

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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.