European Finance Graduate GB&I Bristol, England
Job description
Summary
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.
Our scale and rapid growth make Dyson rich in new opportunities. We value new ideas and diverse perspectives, so our people are trusted with real work and responsibility from the outset. You’ll develop fast and have the chance to move into different business areas and regions.
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 changes to maintain our rapid growth. From our Finance and Security teams, through to Legal, Communications and our People function, we’re focused on delivering an unsurpassed service across the entire business.
The Dyson Finance team is at the heart of engineering our financial success. From commercial forecasting and planning to supporting investment in Research, Design and Development, they help the global business perform as well as our technology.
About the role
Our graduate programme is designed to develop your career at Dyson with a two-year journey, so you can grow both personally and professionally. We’ll help you to improve your knowledge and support your future career progression with workshops to give you baseline soft skills in addition to technical training. Our unique experiential journey provides a framework so you can reach your full potential with leadership talks, lunch-and-learns and more. You will have the opportunity to rotate into a variety of teams to support your professional development.
Unique to Finance, there will be a 3rd year where you will have the opportunity to be rotated into technical and specialist functions for an all-rounded exposure.
Our Finance Graduates are ambitious, resilient and tenacious. During the programme, Dyson will train you in everything finance and will support you through your studies to obtain a professional qualification. You will spend 3 years rotating in different areas of finance across the business – supporting our markets, innovation and product, and commercial strategies. The programme aims to equip graduates with the necessary core skills and cross-functional network to value add to Dyson’s business goals and their professional development
You will spend 12 months each in different core finance function roles during your first 2 years in the scheme:
Commercial/ Group Finance:
Business partner with cross-functional teams on Business Cases and Strategy to access the financial viability of innovations in the new product pipeline. As well as deep dive into the 4 Ps of Finance - Product, Pricing, Performance Reporting & Planning
Design, develop and run quarterly process to calculate Terms, Promo and Other Cost of Sales inputs for all finished goods development projects
Business partner different functions, supporting budget development, financial performance management and finance input for decision making/special projects
Provide timely, accurate and insightful analysis on product cost to support milestone, financial health checks, change management and risk and opportunity tracking.
During your 3rd year, you will spend 6 months within the technical finance functions, and another 6 months within the specialised finance functions.
Technical:
Reporting and track performance of month end procedures, including integrity checks, journal postings, etc
Supporting the reporting of ‘Exceptional’ spend, including:
leading the interactions with the James Dyson Foundation
facilitating their queries and arranging invoicing
Supporting with ad-hoc statutory tasks, such as the roll forward of Group valuations, mid-year reporting, etc.
Support general compliance requirements and upkeep of accounting standards
Perform month-end close activities and providing accurate and timely financial submissions
Specialist:
Tax and Customs: Manages and oversees Customs and International Trade Compliance of Dyson’s businesses, ensuring compliance, trade facility, and enabling cost reduction/savings.
Treasury: Establishing and maintaining best practice in the Group’s treasury, monitoring of cash flows to ensure our cash targets are met, as well as providing reporting of forecasts to ensure available liquidity.
Audit: Understand and mitigate key risks to the business by assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls and providing high quality and practical recommendations
Aside from the above rotations, you will have the opportunity to get exposed to other functions and finance specific development programs (eg. Mentoring, finance lunch and learn, soft and technical skills training etc). We will also provide study support for the ACCA/ CIMA study and exams (subject to region requirement) to ensure that you fully qualify as an accountant.
During the programme, you’ll need to demonstrate quick learning and adaptability, and you’ll need to be able to balance the demands of work and study alongside each other. You can expect big responsibility and plenty of autonomy. However, you’ll be supported with a development framework, enabling professional growth, training and opportunities to hone your skills and evolve your knowledge
About you
You will be contributing to the delivery of the next generation of Dyson technology, so you will need to be:
Working towards or have achieved a Bachelor degree in Business Management, Accountancy, Finance or related discipline (with 2 years or less working experience will be eligible)
Able to demonstrate how you have applied your technical knowledge and skills (financial, analytical and numerical skills) to solve problems, either through your university projects or past internship experience
Committed to learning about finance, how our business operates and the financial considerations that decisions are based upon
Happy to build your own networks to collaborate and learn from the experts around you
Professional and articulate to actively participate in discussions
Passionate about Dyson and our technology to help us meet our ambitious future.
For application to be considered, please upload your detailed resume.
Benefits
Financial benefits:
Performance related bonus
Company paid Life Insurance
Discounts on Dyson machines
Competitive pension scheme
Flexible benefits programme with a growing range of voluntary benefits, including the ability to purchase additional holidays
Lifestyle benefits:
27 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays
Secure bike parking
Free lunch
Health benefits:
Private Medical insurance for all employees
Employee Assistance Program for employee and dependents
Digital GP and prescription service
On-site gym (Malmesbury)
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.
