Financial Control Manager

About us

The new Dyson Business Services (DBS) organisation will provide process and service excellence to support Dyson’s growth ambitions with a goal of innovating and enhancing services over time to meet the changing needs of the business. This new role will be responsible for building a new DBS Centre, transitioning the existing teams into the DBS in Dyson: developing the centre and building on the DBS vision including defining new ways of working, building and maintaining teams, developing the Centre to generate internal demand and providing local management of all the teams in the Centre.

About the role

The Financial Control Manager will be responsible for:

Period End Closing

• Responsible for the accuracy and timely close for Japan market, ensuring compliance to the relevant accounting standards.
• Lead month-end P&L meetings, have discussions on the financials with Market FDs and follow-up on actions raised.

Balance Sheet Integrity

• Take full accountability for the timely and accurate preparation of the balance sheet reconciliations.
• Approve the Balance Sheet reconciliation and able to provide explanations related to the accounts.
• Conduct regular BS reviews with Market FDs and prompt follow-up on action items.
• Analyze the financial statements and highlighting risks, opportunities, and areas of focus to Market, and maintain healthy balance sheet position.
• Review reports that are sent to the Markets and provide insights and informative commentary to Market FDs
• Ensure accurate preparation of the Cashflow Forecast, conducts meeting with Market FDs and Treasury team to discuss details and improve on process.

Internal controls

• Review and ensure proper controls are in place for all processes responsible for
• Implement the global process and ensure compliance to internal controls are implemented and monitored.

Statutory Requirements:

• Provide support/information for the of annual Statutory Accounts and annual Tax submission within the timelines as shared by external auditors.
• Work with Markets to deliver Group & External Audit Requirements such as Statutory Disclosures and total tax contributions.
• Key attendee of the weekly / monthly / quarterly meetings with our external auditors and local GAAP accounts providers (KPMG) as the representative for Japan Market.
• Collaborate with Regional tax team to resolve the tax issues and provide the support for tax audits.

Process/Systems/Continuous Improvement

• Work proactively with RTR SMEs on continuous improvement projects.
• Embrace and lead process/system change.
• Support and engage in ad hoc projects as required.

People Management

• Coach and train the team members to ensure team members have relevant and updated knowledge in the areas they are responsible for

Stakeholder Management

• Partnering with FD / Head of Finance in each market, to discuss opportunities/issues and stay abreast of any new development that may impact DBS.
• Act as a single point of contact for market FDs for issues related to DBS services.
• Identify and build strong relationships with key stakeholders in the markets.

About you

• University degree (Business / Finance / Economy / Management)
• Fluent in Japanese with CA, ACCA, CIMA, or other professional qualifications
• Solid knowledge of accounting, reporting and analysis, acquired through related work experience.
• Good knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Excel a must
• Exhibit the customer centric mindset and the ability to manage tasks with competing priorities to meet the demands from customers.
• Highly motivated, deadline driven, result focused and ability to communicate effectively.
• Strong process & project management skills; lean six sigma qualification is a plus.
• 8 - 12 years’ experience in the area of RTR with people management responsibilities

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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.