Lead Commercial Finance Analyst

About us

At Dyson, 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. The Dyson EMEA region spans 14 head offices across cities like Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Dubai, and Istanbul. Home to 2,000 talented individuals from 66 nationalities, with 55% female representation, our region thrives on diversity, cross-functional collaboration, and a shared drive for progress. Our Finance team manages and balances complex budgets across our global business. Multiple regions, multiple categories and covering all aspects of the finance cycle. The team provides control and stability, which enables our family owned business to be agile, adapt to constant change and focus on growth.

About the role

We are seeking a Lead Commercial Finance Analyst to partner with our Marketing Teams across DACH, with responsibility for managing the marketing budget. This role is pivotal in ensuring accurate budget planning and control, while building strong business partnerships with the marketing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning, budgeting, and forecasting for marketing investment, driving alignment with commercial priorities and ensuring robust financial ownership of spend.
• Own financial integrity across the P&L, partnering closely with Accounting during month-end close to ensure accuracy, transparency, and timely reporting of marketing and commercial performance.
• Develop and elevate advanced analytical frameworks, models, and dashboards to deliver clear, forward looking performance insights and enable data-driven decision-making.
• Act as a trusted finance business partner to Marketing and Sales, providing strategic guidance, commercial challenge, and ongoing support, including targeted ROI analyses to optimise investment decisions.
• Lead variance and performance analysis to generate insights, delivering clear recommendations while constructively challenging stakeholders to drive disciplined cost management and sustainable category growth.
• Functionally manage other team members on day-to-day operations.

About you

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to interpret complex data and translate into business actions.
• Excellent proficiency in Excel and financial reporting systems (SAP, Power BI, or similar).
• Outstanding business partnering and communication skills; ability to influence and challenge stakeholders.
• Proven experience in Commercial Finance, Business Partnering, Controlling or FP&A roles.
• Fluency in English.
• Minimum 4 years of working experience.

Working policy

At Dyson, our vibrant campus culture is built on in-person collaboration, creativity, and shared learning. Working side by side not only fuels our innovation but also creates a strong sense of belonging. To nurture this dynamic and inclusive environment, we do not offer a regular hybrid working arrangement.

Equal opportunity and diversity

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer.

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 any other dimension of diversity.

Company culture and values

We know that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn't just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.