European Finance Traineeship Germany in Köln bei Dyson

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