Vice President Finance & Business Support - Industrial Business Unit
Göteborg, SE, 417 15
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.
What you will do
At Volvo Penta, we are shaping the next generation of sustainable industrial solutions by combining a strong heritage with new growth in electrification, energy, and advanced applications. We bring together the curiosity and agility of an entrepreneurial business with the scale and impact of a global industrial leader.
As Vice President Finance & Business Support for the Industrial Business Unit, you will play a key role in driving both financial performance and business transformation. You will be close to the business, connecting strategy, operations, and financial insights to support responsible growth and build a scalable, future-ready business.
In this role, you will take full ownership of the P&L and cash flow, securing sharp planning, forecasting, and performance follow-up. You will manage OPEX and CAPEX, balancing short-term priorities with long-term value creation, while ensuring strong governance, control, and compliance in line with Volvo Group frameworks.
You will act as a key business partner across areas such as production, R&D, service offerings, and new growth initiatives. You will also lead process and operational development, strengthen finance capabilities and ways of working, and drive people and team development within Finance & Business Support.
Your future team
You will be part of the Industrial Business Unit management team and report to the SVP, Head of Industrial Business Unit. You will work closely with senior leaders, finance colleagues, business stakeholders, and employee representatives across Volvo Penta and the Volvo Group.
The environment is collaborative, business-focused, and transformation-oriented. Together, you will support the continued development of the Industrial Business Unit, ensuring strong performance today while building the capabilities, processes, and teams needed for tomorrow.
Who are you?
You are a senior finance leader with a strong business mindset and a genuine interest in understanding how strategy, operations, business models, and financials connect.
We believe you have:
- Proven experience leading broad finance agendas, including full P&L ownership and performance management
- Strong ability to connect financial insights with operational realities and strategic choices
- Experience from transformation, business development, or evolving market environments
- A grounded and collaborative leadership style, with the ability to build trust across stakeholders
- Strong judgment, perspective, and the ability to make things happen in complex environments
In addition, you bring understanding and experience from different business models and multi-channel distribution environments. Knowledge of Sales & Operational Planning and the demand-to-payment process is also valuable. You are passionate about transformation, digitalization, and continuous improvement in financial processes, and you lead with clarity, integrity, and a strong sense of accountability.
What’s in it for you?
This is an opportunity to take on a highly influential finance leadership role in a business with a clear purpose and a strong future agenda. At Volvo Penta, sustainability, innovation, and performance are deeply connected, and your contribution will help shape the next chapter of our industrial business.
You will join a collaborative and down-to-earth culture where people support each other, accountability is clear, and leadership is close to the business. You will have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, develop people and capabilities, and create long-term impact in a meaningful and lasting way.
Ready for the next move?
If you want to combine finance leadership, business transformation, people development, and strategic impact in a global industrial environment, we would love to hear from you.
Welcome with your application.
Contact: Anna Öljemark, VP People & Culture Industrial, anna.oljemark@volvo.com
Last application date: June 28
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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.
Volvo Penta, a world-leading supplier of engines and complete drive systems for marine and industrial applications, you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who works with passion, trust each other and embraces change to stay ahead. We make our customers win.