Business Control Director, Volvo Trucks Brazil
Curitiba, BR, 81260-900
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
About the position:
As a Business Control Director, you will be the senior financial advisor to the Managing Director and an active member of the Leadership Team. You will steer the full financial agenda for Volvo Trucks Brazil, ensuring a robust performance framework, strategic clarity, and high-quality insights that enable confident, fast decision-making.
What you will do:
- Lead the Business Control strategy and agenda for the Market Company Brazil, ensuring strong financial governance across Sales, Services, Market Operations, Dealer network and new business initiatives;
- Own the full planning cycle—budget, strategic planning, rolling forecasts, outlooks, target-setting—and anchor financial ambition across the leadership team;
- Drive commercial insights on pricing, volumes, margins, profitability, and market dynamics, supporting strategic portfolio and commercial decisions;
- Monitor critical performance indicators such as market share, sales mix, contribution margins, customer profitability, operational performance, costs and expenses, recommending actions to improve results;
- Champion management reporting quality, ensuring accuracy, speed, and transparency for executive-level decision-making;
- Lead strategic projects, including new business models, pricing strategies, cost optimization, dealer performance improvement, and commercial investment assessments;
- Ensure strong internal controls, compliance, and adherence to Volvo Group policies, elevating financial discipline and risk management;
- Represent Brazil in regional and global forums, aligning financial strategy, performance expectations, and long-term ambitions;
- Lead and develop the Business Control function, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement.
This role requires a senior strategic leader able to navigate complexity, challenge the status quo, and influence high-level decisions.
You will sit on the Volvo Trucks Brazil Leadership Team, partnering closely with cross-functional, regional, and global stakeholders. Your leadership will shape commercial performance, pricing strategies, sustainable growth, and the long-term strategic direction of the business.
This is an on-site position based in Curitiba, with broad exposure to senior regional and global leadership.
Competencies:
- You are a strategic, analytical, and highly business-oriented finance executive. You can simplify complexity, influence decisions at the highest levels, and guide the business through data-driven clarity.
You bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, or related field; post-graduate or MBA is a strong plus.
- Extensive and progressive experience in Business Control, FP&A, Commercial Finance, or related leadership roles—preferably in multinational, automotive, industrial, or transport sectors.
- Significant experience in commercial organizations, supporting sales performance, pricing, and market strategies.
- Proven track record of leading financial planning, forecasting, strategic steering and executive-level reporting.
- Strong understanding of Brazilian accounting concepts and financial governance (not responsible for statutory reporting).
- Advanced analytical skills and experience with financial modeling, performance steering tools, and data insights.
- Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with comfort operating at executive and regional/global levels.
- Fluent Portuguese and English; Spanish is a plus.
Ready for the next move?
Join us to shape the financial strategy and commercial performance of Volvo Trucks Brazil, and contribute to the sustainable growth of one of the world’s most respected transport brands.
This selection process will be conducted with the support of the consulting firm Kienbaum
At Volvo do Brasil, we value the candidate experience and collaborate with approved partners to ensure a professional selection process aligned with our values.
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Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.