Group Accounting , Head of External Audit

Group Accounting , Head of External Audit Summary

Salary : Competitive Team : Finance Location : Singapore - Technology Centre

Purpose of role

We are looking seeking a highly motivated finance professional to join our dynamic Group Finance team. This newly created role will support the Head of Technical Accounting & External Reporting in driving improvements to Dyson's financial close and statutory accounting processes, ensuring global statutory filing compliance, and enhancing the integrity of our financial reporting.

As Dyson continues to expand and evolve, this role offers a unique opportunity to lead, drive, and implement improvements across our global finance operations. You will work closely with Group Finance teams in Singapore and the UK, Dyson Business Services teams in Poland, India, and Asia Pacific, as well as local market finance directors and senior stakeholders across the Dyson Group.

We are seeking a finance professional with strong experience in consolidation and managing monthly financial closes, coupled with deep expertise in financial reporting, statutory accounting, and internal controls. The ideal candidate has successfully led global projects, thrives in a matrix organisation, and enjoys working cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders. This role requires someone who embraces change, collaborates effectively across teams and geographies, and is passionate about driving process improvements in a dynamic, evolving business environment.

Accountabilities

Group and Local Statutory Audits

Own delivery of the Group statutory audit, ensuring completion before end-February, with zero SUM and minimal findings.

Oversee all local statutory audits globally, ensuring completion by 30 June and alignment across Group, Shared Services, and Markets.

Drive audit efficiency by expanding reliance on internal controls, streamlining deliverables, and embedding prior-year learnings.

Manage external auditor relationships, ensuring clarity on scope, timelines, materiality thresholds, audit risks, and sampling expectations.

Coordinate internal stakeholders to deliver timely, accurate, and complete audit support.

Identify risks, pressures, or emerging issues early and resolve proactively.

Lead the Group dividend capacity assessment and end-to-end dividend payment process, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.

Technical Accounting

Lead impairment assessments of subsidiaries, investments, and key assets in accordance with IFRS.

Lead technical evaluation of complex or material accounting matters, including revenue, leases, guarantees, consolidation, impairment, contract accounting, provisions, and FX.

Prepare technical accounting papers for senior management and external auditors with clear recommendations and rationale.

Partner with Finance, Sustainability, and Systems teams to ensure timely, accurate implementation of new IFRS standards (e.g., IFRS 18) and sustainability reporting frameworks (CSRD, ISSB).

Support significant business transactions, restructures, and legal entity changes with rigorous technical accounting guidance.

Group Accounting Operations

Support the monthly statutory reporting cycle, ensuring statutory books close on time and on quality by Working Day 7, with issues flagged, tracked, and resolved as part of the month-end close schedule.

Support the Group consolidation and statutory close processes, ensuring accuracy, control discipline, and compliance with accounting policies.

Support key accounting processes including PURP, Addbacks, guarantee provisions, leases, and other critical consolidation entries.

Lead and develop a large, diverse global accounting team across Group Accounting, Consolidation, Technical Accounting, and Statutory Reporting.

Set clear goals and performance standards focused on accuracy, governance, control discipline, and continuous improvement.

Build a collaborative, high-performance culture grounded in professional integrity and strong judgement.

Strengthen functional capability through structured coaching, technical upskilling, and succession planning.

Oversee workforce planning, talent acquisition, onboarding, development, and career progression.

Drive engagement, retention, and performance through regular coaching, feedback, and recognition.

Champion cross-functional collaboration across Controllers, Internal Controls, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Sustainability, Legal, and Systems.

Stakeholder Management & Influence

Coordinate the annual audit kick-off and ongoing audit governance, clearly communicating deliverables, timelines, scope, and sampling expectations.

Monitor Group and local audit progress, addressing issues early and escalating where deliverables are not met.

Build strong, transparent relationships with external auditors to align expectations and resolve issues quickly.

Provide proactive communication to senior management on accounting risks, IFRS changes, sustainability reporting impacts, and control findings.

Promote discipline, transparency, and a strong governance mindset across the global finance community.

Skills

Qualified accountant (CA, CPA, ACCA or local equivalent) with at least 15 years of qualified experience

Strong technical accounting knowledge in SFRS and/or IFRS

Strong experience in dealing with financial audits, accounting close and financial reporting

Strong experience in financial controls and processes and SOX experience preferable

Strong leader who has experience leading teams to deliver change

Strong communicator with an ability to communicate complicated areas in a simple and easy to understand manner

Flexible in approach with strong organisational and prioritisation skills

Self-starter, proactive and able to quickly grasp issues, with a mindset to drive change and improvements

High levels of integrity, accuracy, and attention to detail

Logical mind-set and a problem solver

A strong appetite to drive and embed change across the organisation

Experience in working in an international Group environment

Experience with our key financial systems - SAP S4 Hana and One Stream

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.