Salary:

Competitive

Team:

Finance

Location:

Singapore - Technology Centre

Group FP&A Manager– Finance Business Intelligence
About the role
The Group FP&A team is an integral part of Dyson’s Finance community and is supported by data-driven analysis and insights. The Finance Business Intelligence (FBI) team delivers reporting and analysis of performance across the group, both financial and non-financial, liaising directly with global teams to provide support to the Dyson Executive Team. As a Centre of Excellence for Financial Analysis and Data, we deliver strategic insights and future-ready solutions to enable data-driven decision making as a valued and credible business partner.
Our strategic focus areas include:

• Data: Enterprise-wide curated data available for cross functional analytics
• Visualization: Self serve, interactive, dynamic content
• Data Culture: Embed data in everything we do
• People: Individual growth = team growth

The FBI team has 3 core pillars – Data, Visualisation and Finance, and team members are developed with a specialisation track, but with strong working knowledge across all pillars. Team Managers will have responsibility over the delivery roadmap and governance, driving collaborative solutions and the role of being the subject matter expert in their respective pillars.
You will have a strong technical understanding of data platforms, visualization tools and financial reporting, with advanced proficiency in at least one of the aspects. Adaptability, flexibility and resourcefulness in delivering a challenging roadmap whilst our data landscape is transforming, will be key to your success.
We use Google Cloud Platform and Tableau as our main technologies, but also have an estate of data and reporting platforms. Application of these tools, or similar, to design solutions is key. There may also be times that you need to get hands on with this technology, delivering content yourself and exploring new functionality available in our toolset.
You will be highly organised, enjoy delivering analytics solutions and managing resources to ensure deadlines are met and the quality of content served remains high.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering our FBI roadmap in either Data/Visualisation/Finance Transformation Projects
• Prioritisation of project deliverables and resourcing in the specific area of responsibility
• Drive collaboration and value-add as the subject matter expert for the specific area of responsibility
• Define and govern the design, development and implementation of key policies and processes
• Collaborating with the Group IT, Group Finance Systems and Group Reporting teams across the business to deliver mutually beneficial analytics products
• Championing the use of data and analytics, driving adoption and growth in the user base
• Leading FBI training and sharing sessions for the user base
• Mentoring and developing the team

About you

• Finance background is essential, ideally with a relevant Finance degree, or a designation from a recognised accounting body (e.g. CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Good commercial awareness, with knowledge of Financial data
• Strong delivery skills - organised, delivery focused and deadline driven
• Demonstrated success of project delivery / business change within BI and Visualisation tools
• Determined to identify solutions and be prepared to overcome obstacles to follow through plans to completion
• Ability to communicate complex ideas simply, and to translate user requirements into solutions
• Ability to work with data engineers to fine tune data pipeline for analytics
• Experience using Tableau is essential
• Applied knowledge of a range of data platforms such as SQL Server, GCP, SAP BW, S4/HANA
• Basic SQL skills
• Passionate about data and/or visualisation best practice, driving data-culture in terms of adoption, self-serve and growth in user base