Business Controller
Warwick, GB, CV34 5YA
Salary: £40,000 to £55,000 and Company bonus up to 10 %
Location: Warwick
At Volvo Financial Services, we sit at the heart of the Volvo Group, enabling customers to invest, grow, and transition through smart, responsible financial solutions. Celebrating 40 years in the UK, we support customers and dealers across the UK and Ireland with funding, insurance, and services that keep society moving. Beyond numbers, our work drives growth, supports innovation, and strengthens the long-term performance of the Volvo Group, with finance playing a key role in shaping commercial decisions.
As a Business Controller, you will provide financial insight, analysis, and forward-looking forecasts for VFS UK and Ireland. You will act as a trusted partner to the business, supporting finance and accounting activities while maintaining a holistic view of performance and future development.
A key part of the role is transforming complex financial data into clear, meaningful dashboards. You will build and maintain Power BI using multiple data sources, ensuring stakeholders have timely, accurate, and actionable insight to support decision-making.
What’s in it for you?
- Professional growth and development: Unlock your potential through various training and development opportunities.
- Company bonus: Enjoy a 15% yearly bonus provided by the company.
- Pension scheme: Matched up to 10% of your salary, including death in service cover.
- Medical Insurance: Medical insurance coverage is provided by Bupa.
- Employee Assistance Programme: Take advantage of our wellness, mindfulness, and counselling services to support your overall well-being.
- Generous holiday allowance: Start with 25 days and watch it grow to 30 days with length of service, plus bank holidays.
- Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays, and travel.
- Fitness perks: Access MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts. Make use of our on-site gym.
- Convenient amenities: Benefit from free on-site parking Enhanced family-friendly policies: We value work-life balance and offer enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity leave with 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay, as well as 5-week paternity leave.
You can learn more about the rewards and benefits of working at Volvo Group here: Volvo Group Employee Benefits
Who Are You and Your New Colleagues
You are a finance professional who combines sharp analytical skills with commercial awareness, turning complex data into actionable insights that drive business decisions.
- Completed professional qualification: ACCA, CIMA, or ICAEW
- Experience in financial reporting or business control, ideally within financial services
- Excellent knowledge of controlling and reporting
- Proven experience building Power BI reports from multiple data sources
- Strong analytical capability with a holistic view of the business
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
- You will have a proven record of driving efficiencies as well as the ability to demonstrate cross-functional working within your business.
You will work closely with a strong and experienced finance leadership team, including the Head of Finance, Tax and Treasury Manager, Transformation and Business Control Manager, Business Control Manager, Capital Strategies Operations Manager, Finance Manager, and Assurance and Transformation Manager.
What You Will Do
You will play a key role in providing financial insight and supporting business decisions through accurate reporting and analysis.
- Analyse financial information relevant for the Business Area, including reserve modelling and quarterly review meetings
- Finance & Accounting: month-end closing, trending, and forward planning
- Support commercial activities such as penetration, spread, proforma, and fee income
- Monitor expenses and deliver commercial market reporting
- Assist in business planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- Constantly drive efficiency improvements across controlling and reporting processes
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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 Financial Services, we are working together to shape the world we want to live in. As the captive finance arm of the Volvo Group, VFS provides financial services and solutions that meet the needs of our customers’ evolving business. Through our dedication to innovation, we support society in its adoption of sustainable transport and equipment solutions. VFS is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, and serves Volvo Group customers and dealers in more than 50 markets.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a solid and competitive package of compensation and benefits, plus you will enjoy a diverse working environment with a culture of care and inclusion. As an investment, we support your personal development and growth to achieve your career aspirations. Volvo Financial Services is an on-site business and we understand that you might need occasional or temporary flexibility, which your leader is equipped to manage and fits well to our culture, as being together enables us to build upon our innovative and collaborative culture, as well as develop you for continued success.