Business Controller Local Country Control & Onsite Services
Göteborg, SE, 417 55
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.
Are you our new Country Business Controller?
We are searching for a business controller managing local business control in Sweden, the biggest site where Volvo Group Digital & IT is present. You will be part of the team managing local business control. The team consists of 8 Business Controllers, located globally. As a business partner you will drive local financial support and business control of manpower cost. You work closely with the business with analysis, follow-up as well as supporting local manager’s and Country Leader in the financial processes.
Aside from being a true co-driver to business you will also be part of contributing to enabling the digital transformation journey.
This is your key responsibilities
Country Business controlling of Volvo Group Digital & IT
- Drive Business Control activities and support Country leader to optimize site costs, local investment and manpower performance
- Perform proactive controlling and drive cost awareness to achieve short- and long-term financial targets
- Perform the monthly closing for the legal entity
- Drive yearly standard cost calculation process
- Support financial model evolution and guardian of principle to secure tax efficiency
- Secure financial follow up with a transparent structure, excellent visualization and high quality
- Lead planning and estimate process within served areas and secure target fulfillment
This will be us - your new colleagues within Finance
Undoubtedly, Finance is an interesting place to be especially during periods of change and transformation. We provide the financial information and analyses required to operate effectively and efficiently and to support business planning and decision-making.
The function works closely together and with other parts of the organization, both in Group Digital & IT organization as well as with the other Digital & IT and the Finance communities in the Group.
Who are you?
You have at least 5 years of proven experience as a business controller. You will actively cooperate with management and various stakeholders and navigate with ease in a multi-cultural environment. You have strategic and long-term mindset thinking in everything you do. You have excellent skills in telling a story based on financial information in a way that is understood and actionable for management. You can shift with ease between having good insights in financial statistics to out-side-in perspective.
As a business controller, you are highly involved in creating efficient and trustful day-to-day operations.
To be successful in your role you need to have following experience/capabilities:
- Experience in Business controlling
- Experience in business and/or management team interaction
- Strong personal drive and desire to get the job done
- Strategic thinking with a creative mind
- Strong skill in accounting and experience in working with accruals and balance sheet reconciliation
- Excellent visualization, communication & presentations skills
- Ability to establish and maintain good relations
- Strong logic and analytical skills
- Have a positive attitude and like to have fun at work
- Flexible and pragmatic to act in a changing environment during transformation
- Digital literacy – finding it easy to adapt to digital tools and systems. Engaged in driving automation using these kinds of tools.
- Fluency in business English, spoken and written
- University/master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant area
- IT proficiency – good knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office, especially Excel & Power Point. Power BI experience is a strong merit
- Based in Sweden
Are you looking for your next step as a business controller and want to work with business controlling in a global and dynamic environment? Do you have a positive attitude and like having fun at work? Then we could be a perfect match!
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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.
Group Digital & IT is the hub for digital development within Volvo Group. Imagine yourself working with cutting-edge technologies in a global team, represented in more than 30 countries. We are dedicated to leading the way of tomorrow’s transport solutions, guided by a strong customer mindset and high level of curiosity, both as individuals and as a team. Here, you will thrive in your career in an environment where your voice is heard and your ideas matter.