Senior Business Controller
Warwick, GB, CV34 5YA
Salary: up to £75,000 and Company bonus up to 5%
Location: Warwick, UK
Travel: Some travel required
At Volvo Trucks, we are shaping the future of transport. Our electric truck range has won the prestigious International Truck of the Year 2027 award, recognising our technology and commitment to more sustainable transport.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Controller to join our Business Control team in Warwick, supporting the Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland business
Working closely with the CFO, Service Market & Retail Director and wider management team, you will play an important role in supporting the financial performance of our Service Market business. You will provide commercial insight, challenge financial performance and help turn financial information into meaningful business decisions.
From leading budgeting and forecasting to overseeing financial reporting and strengthening financial controls, you will have a broad remit and the opportunity to influence decisions at a senior level.
What Can Volvo Trucks Offer You:
- Pension scheme: We offer a matched pension scheme of up to 7% of your salary, with incremental benefits based on length of service, including death in service cover.
- Healthcare: Benefit from access to Bupa cover and Dental insurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme: Take advantage of wellness, mindfulness and counselling services to support your overall wellbeing.
- Holiday Allowance: 33 days annual leave (increasing with length of service), plus the option to buy up to 5 additional days. Bank holidays are included within this allowance.
- Maternity and Paternity leave: Maternity leave (6 months full pay, 6 months half pay) and 5 weeks of paternity leave, with 3 weeks flexible to take at any point within two years.
- Discounts on various purchases: Enjoy savings on shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, holidays and travel.
You can learn more about the rewards and benefits of working at Volvo Group here:
Who are you?
We're looking for a fully qualified professional (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with substantial post-qualification experience in business control, financial controlling or commercial finance. Experience gained through working within a large, complex organisation is essential, ideally within manufacturing, automotive, logistics, transport or infrastructure
- Extensive experience leading financial planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
- Strong technical knowledge of financial reporting, month-end processes, accounting policies, internal controls.
- Experience overseeing investment planning, investment reporting, audit requirements and financial governance.
- Proven experience partnering with senior management, influencing business strategy and supporting operational performance.
- Strong technical knowledge of financial reporting, month-end processes, accounting policies, internal controls.
- Experience overseeing investment planning, investment reporting, audit requirements and financial governance.
- Confidence operating autonomously, managing competing priorities and providing senior-level support across the finance function
- Confidence working with financial systems and improving the quality, accuracy and efficiency of financial reporting.
What will you do?
In this role, you'll lead financial planning activities, including annual budgets, forecasting and longer-term financial plans.
- Oversee financial reporting, providing accurate and timely information to support business performance reviews and senior management decision-making.
- Analyse financial performance, investigate variances and identify risks and opportunities, providing recommendations to support commercial decision-making.
- Take ownership of month-end financial processes, ensuring accurate reporting, appropriate controls and timely financial sign-off.
- Oversee investment planning and reporting. Review business cases to support sound investment decisions and ensure appropriate financial governance.
- Coordinate audit requirements and ensure compliance with accounting policies, internal controls and financial reporting standards.
- Drive continuous improvement across financial processes, reporting and controls, improving accuracy, efficiency and the quality of financial information.
- Act as a key user of financial systems, supporting their effective use and improving reporting processes.
- Provide leadership and support across the finance function, deputising for the CFO when required
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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.