Summary
Salary: Competitive Job Family: Finance Location: Singapore - Technology Centre
Location: Singapore
Reports To: Senior Finance Director, Group Financial Planning & Reporting
Team Size: Medium-sized team (BI Analysts + Financial Analysts)
Role Purpose
The Head of Financial Reporting & Performance Analysis is a senior leadership role responsible for elevating the Group's management and statutory performance insight capabilities. The role leads a medium-sized team of BI and Financial Analysts to deliver high-quality financial analysis used by the CFO Office, Group Finance leadership, and global commercial and finance users.
A core part of this role is driving the evolution of finance analyticsfrom traditional Tableau dashboards to more AI-enabled financial reporting and insights. The role owns the Group's key financial performance dashboards and reporting tools, ensuring they are continuously enhanced and aligned with Group strategic priorities and financial reporting needs.
This position plays an important role in shaping the organisation's understanding of financial performance and contributes directly to Board papers, Board presentations, and senior-level performance discussions. This is also an excellent developmental role for someone with high potential who is looking to broaden their exposure across Group FP&A and Group Finance, with a view to progressing into wider planning or financial leadership roles over time.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Reporting and Performance Analysis (Management & Statutory)
- Lead the Group's management and statutory performance analysis across revenue, gross margin, operating costs, and other key financial drivers.
- Produce clear, structured and insightful analysis for the CFO Office and Group Finance leadership.
- Support performance-related sections in Board papers, Board presentations, and senior-level reporting materials.
- Conduct deep dives into categories, markets, channels, and cost lines to highlight trends, risks and opportunities.
- Ensure all analytical outputs follow Group definitions and financial reporting frameworks.
- Own the end-to-end competitor and peer benchmarking process, including collection, consolidation, and analysis of historical external financial performance.
- Produce regular insight reports and analysis comparing Dyson statutory results against key peers, including structured assessments such as SWOT, category and margin comparisons, and cost competitiveness insights.
- Finance Business Intelligence & Dashboard Ownership
- Own and continuously enhance the Group's Tableau dashboards and financial reporting tools, relied upon globally by finance and commercial teams.
- Ensure dashboards remain robust, intuitive, and aligned with Group strategic priorities and financial reporting needs, including updates on the Management and Statutory Accounting Policy.
- Lead improvements in visualisation quality, KPI consistency, and user experience across Tableau assets.
- Translate finance and business questions into dashboard enhancements and analytical solutions that improve decision-making.
- Leverage Tableau to automate manual reporting processes and deliver deeper, more insightful analytics for complex financial performance areas.
- Govern and maintain the Group Finance data access controls policy, ensuring appropriate, secure, and compliant user access to Group financial data and reporting.
- Partner with Finance Systems and Data teams to uphold strong data governance and data integrity.
- Advancing Financial Analytics: BI AI
- Lead the transformation of financial analytics toward AI-enabled reporting and insights, including early-stage pilots such as automated insights, anomaly detection, and enhanced analytical automation.
- Identify, prioritise, and deliver opportunities to streamline and enhance analysis, reporting, and insight generation using advanced analytics, LLMs, and machine learning techniques.
- Shape the context engineering, prompt engineering, and data structures required to enable reliable, finance-grade outputs from AI and LLM models.
- Define the long-term AI roadmap for Group performance analysis, including automated insights, anomaly detection, forecasting enhancement, and intelligent narrative generation.
- Ensure AI-enabled tools and solutions meet governance, control, and data integrity standards and are embedded into a scalable operating model.
- Team Leadership & Capability Building
- Lead, mentor, and develop a medium-sized team of BI and Financial Analysts.
- Build a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
- Strengthen analytical, technical, and visualisation capabilities across the team.
- Manage workload allocation and ensure high-quality output across reporting cycles.
- Promote cross-training between BI and Financial Analysts to build versatility, depth, and resilience.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Influence
- Act as a key partner to the CFO Office and the principal financial and commercial users of the Group's financial analytics solutions.
- Work with IT, Data Scientists, and enterprise analytics teams to co-develop enhanced BI solutions, strengthen data foundations, and integrate AI and LLM capabilities into financial reporting and analysis.
- Ensure analysis and dashboards meet evolving business needs and support strategic priorities.
- Promote awareness, understanding, and adoption of dashboards and automated reports across global finance and commercial teams.
- Provide user training, education, and guidance to help teams fully leverage available analytics tools.
- Communicate insights clearly and concisely to senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Group Reporting, FP&A, Market Finance, and Category Finance to ensure aligned interpretation of financial performance.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical & Analytical
- 10+ years experience in financial reporting, performance analysis, or BI/analytics.
- Strong understanding of P&L drivers, statutory results, and Group financial reporting processes.
- Strong proficiency in Tableau and data visualisation best practices.
- Ability to translate large datasets into clear, actionable insights.
- Strong interest or experience in AI, automation, and advanced analytics.
Leadership & Communication
- Experience leading analytical teams with a positive, supportive leadership style.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with senior finance leaders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, especially for senior executives and Boards.
Execution Excellence
- Track record of delivering high-quality reporting and analysis under tight timelines.
- Strong attention to detail and review discipline.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Attributes
- Curious, innovative, and enthusiastic about transforming financial analytics through AI.
- Positive, collaborative leader who builds trust and motivates teams.
- Structured thinker with strong business and financial acumen.
- Takes initiative, thrives in ambiguity, and demonstrates strong ownership.
- High-potential and highly ambitious, with a strong desire to broaden their exposure across Group FP&A and Group Finance, and to progress into wider planning or financial leadership roles over time.
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.
Posted: 07 January 2026
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