Lead Financial Analyst FP&A

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Chicago, IL - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 103200 - 129000
Posted on: 15 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Role

Senior Financial Analyst FP&A (Cost Analytics Lead)

The Senior Financial Analyst will support Dysons US business through endtoend FP&A ownership acting as a trusted commercial finance partner and the analytical lead for cost margin and performance management.

In addition to core FP&A responsibilities this role is accountable for elevating the quality of commercial insight cost transparency and analytical rigor across planning forecasting and performance reviewsensuring leaders have clear visibility into tradeoffs risks and value creation opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

Commercial Business Partnering

  • Act as a primary finance business partner to functional leaders supporting commercial and operational decisions with strong financial insight.

  • Challenge assumptions highlight tradeoffs and influence decisions related to cost margin pricing and investment priorities.

  • Translate business plans into financial outcomes and ensure alignment with overall performance objectives.

  • Support decisionmaking with clear factbased recommendations grounded in data.

FP&A Ownership & Cost Management

  • Own core FP&A cycles including budgeting forecasting longrange planning and monthly performance management.

  • Lead cost planning and cost control activities ensuring transparency accountability and alignment to targets.

  • Develop and maintain detailed cost models to understand fixed vs. variable drivers and sensitivity to volume or mix.

  • Partner with stakeholders to identify cost risks mitigation actions and efficiency opportunities.

Analytical Leadership & Performance Insight

  • Serve as the analytical lead for FP&A deliverables setting standards for modeling depth insight quality and storytelling.

  • Perform deepdive analysis into variances trends and performance drivers with a focus on margin and cost efficiency.

  • Build advanced scenario and sensitivity models to assess commercial outcomes and downside/upside risks.

  • Deliver executiveready insights with concise narratives visuals and recommended actions.

Reporting Dashboards & Automation

  • Own the design and continuous improvement of management reporting and dashboards used to track commercial and cost performance.

  • Improve efficiency and scalability of FP&A reporting through automation standardization and improved data structures.

  • Leverage AIenabled tools to accelerate analysis scenario modeling variance investigation and management reporting.

  • Ensure consistent assumptions definitions and calculation logic across plans forecasts and actuals.

  • Reduce manual effort and reporting cycle time while improving clarity and accuracy.

Forecasting Close & Performance Management

  • Lead forecasting and monthend performance processes with a strong emphasis on analytical rigor and accountability.

  • Develop structured variance analysis versus budget forecast and prior periods clearly explaining drivers.

  • Ensure forecasts reflect current business conditions risks and mitigation actions.

  • Maintain strong controls and documentation around assumptions and outputs.

Systems Data & Continuous Improvement

  • Partner with Finance Systems & IT teams to enhance planning reporting and analytics tools.

  • Act as a key FP&A user in system enhancements and upgrades particularly those impacting cost and performance reporting.

  • Apply a responsible and critical approach to AI usage validating outputs and ensuring data accuracy and governance.

  • Identify process gaps data issues and inefficiencies and lead improvements endtoend. Promote best practices in financial modeling reporting design data visualization and analytics.

About You

Experience & Background

  • Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or a related field.

  • 47 years of experience in FP&A commercial finance or costfocused finance roles.

  • Proven experience partnering with business leaders and influencing decisions related to cost margin or investment.

Technical & Analytical Skills

  • Advanced Excel expertise (complex models cost drivers scenario analysis Power Query automation).

  • Strong experience building FP&A models cost frameworks and management reporting. Comfortable using AIpowered tools to support financial analysis reporting and productivity.

  • Experience with BI and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI Tableau). Solid understanding of ERP and planning systems and financial data structures. High standards for accuracy controls and analytical discipline.

Ways of Working

  • Commercially minded with a strong ownership mentality.

  • Comfortable balancing FP&A cadence with deep analytical work.

  • Confident challenging assumptions and discussing tradeoffs with stakeholders.

  • Proactive detailoriented and continuously focused on improving outcomes.

  • Strong communicator able to turn analysis into action.

Compensation:$103200 - $129000 annually bonus opportunity

Benefits

At Dyson how we reward you is linked to our high-performance culture. Butitsabout more than salary and bonus. Through a package of financial lifestyle and health benefits we support whatever stage of lifeyourein and the moments that matter.

Financial benefits:

401K with up to a 4% match

Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D

Flexible Savings Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)

Lifestyle benefits:

Competitive Paid Time Off Benefits including Separate Holiday Sick and Vacation Time

Pre-tax Commuter Benefits (applicable areas only)

Generous Child Care Leave Program

Wellness Program

Employee Assistance Program

Dyson Product Discounts

Health benefits:

Multi-Level Healthcare Coverage Options

Vision & Dental Coverage

Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds dont 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.


Required Experience:

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