Interim Senior Business Controller

Main tasks:

• Management team member of the division function
  • Proactively drive the development and management of business control and performance management within the division function.
  • Provide strong support and advise on strategy development and execution to enable successful and data-driven decision making.
  • Consolidate and track performance of execution plans and assist in prioritizing actions to ensure development in the right direction and pace, supporting good alignment with the divisions overall.
• Business controlling and performance management
  • Create an overview of the division functions total performance through analysis of result statement and balance sheet as well as monitoring and developing relevant KPIs, reporting and communication.
  • Drive net working capital efficiency and cost efficiency for increased competitiveness.
  • Provide in-depth analyses of focus areas as required to support stakeholders and optimize the performance of the division function. Support profitability analysis.
  • Monitor performance of larger execution plan or investment projects as steering group representative.
• Financial reporting and budgeting
  • Consolidate, report and present monthly financial results for the areas of the division function’s responsibility (early indicators as well as actuals) for production units and staff functions.
  • Ensure completeness, correctness and alignment with the global divisions reporting.
  • Drive improvements in both reporting and forecasting accuracy.
  • Drive the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes within the division unit
• Leading the division function’s controller community
  • Drive development of common financial processes to give fast, automated and business performance analysis of past, present and future trends, highlighting risks and opportunities
  • Provide guidelines and definitions to ensure comparable benchmarking.
  • Drive finance and controlling competence within the division function through guidelines, trainings, network development and best practice sharing.
  • Develop the division function’s controlling organization. Support talent and succession planning, recruitment as well as onboarding of new controllers.

To be relevant for the role:

• You have +7 years’ experience in business controlling and/or accounting
• You have experience from international manufacturing industry and intercultural work environment
• You have general finance training and solid experience from production accounting.
• You have strong analytical skills
• You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• You are highly structured and have a process focus
• You possess thorough knowledge of financial principles, rules and processes (financial, production and inventory accounting)
• You have a high IT literacy and is consistently aiming for higher degrees of digitalization and automation
• You have advanced skills in large ERP-systems and MS-tools (Excel, Powerpoint etc)
• You are fluent in English (written and verbal)

About the process:

The assignment starts as soon as possible and the estimated length of the assignment is 6 months. We present candidates for the client company this week 39. Are you available and the right candidate for the assignment? Apply now!

Responsible recruitment consultant is Roger Grönborg who works with researcher Lisa Jansson.

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