Accountant - Lots Group

LOTS Group is a fully owned subsidiary of Scania offering integrated transport services globally. The LOTS model is an actualization of Transport as a Service (TaaS) where LOTS owns, operates, and optimizes transport flows for transport buyers.  The service is built on four pillars – adoption of Scania’s Lean methodology, pioneering new technology, customer-specific solutions, and leading safe, sustainable, and compliant transport. The objective is to build out Scania’s commercial and operational capabilities to prepare for a future where new technology will challenge Scania’s current business model.

Accountant - Stockholm

Overview:
At LOTS, the Finance & Controlling Department leads the financial planning processes as well as monitors the execution and fulfillment of the company’s business strategy. The department works in close integration with the management team. The company is steadily growing, and we are now looking for an account to strengthen the reporting and accounting procedures together with our accounting service providers world-wide; today situated in Europe and the Americas.

The Position:
As an accountant at LOTS, you would play a key role in the reporting and accounting procedures for our business.  In this role you will be responsible for reporting foreign subsidiaries to Group level. As such, you will also support in adhoc accounting work with finance managers in the regions, as well as process improvement and policy implementation.

You will report to the CFO of the group and be part of a team of 5 finance professionals working on Group level. For everyday tasks, you will be working closely with global accounting and reporting (GARM) manager who supports, supervise and is responsible of the overall group reporting. You will also be part of group wide projects in which you are expected to actively participate.

The position is based at the LOTS Stockholm office, located in close vicinity to the central station. However, LOTS applies a hybrid workplace model with the flexibility to work from home a few days a week depending on tasks and in agreement with manager.

As we are a global organization, international travel might be necessary on occasion. You need to be comfortable working closely with key finance stakeholders as the role will occasionally require synching with suppliers.

At LOTS, our employees receive a high level of freedom and responsibility. As a LOTS co-worker you are expected to follow the processes and methods in place, but also to apply your own business sense, analytical abilities, interpersonal skills and good judgement.

Examples of work duties:


• Book closing activities, monthly, quarterly, and yearly
• Contribute to LOTS Group monthly financial reporting to Scania
• Provide accounting support to operations
• Actively participate in Group level projects and on occasion be the project lead

The Candidate:

You like the fact that the company is young, with an entrepreneurial culture and ambitious colleagues. We believe that you have at least three to five years of previous experience from working as an accountant taking part of month end, yearend closing and reporting in an ERP-system. Good communication skills are important as we area global organization working across borders with many different nationalities, cultures and languages.

The Requirements:

Key qualifications:


• Bachelors level degree in relevant area or accountant degree (redovisningsekonom)
• Possess a high proficiency in MS Office Software - most critically Excel
• Structured and detail oriented, but also able to see the bigger picture
• Must be available to travel internationally on occasion
• Minimum language proficiency requirement: fluent in Swedish and English

Further merits:


• Previous experience of ERP systems (preferably Oracle NetSuite, Hyperion or SAP)
• Project management

For more information

To find out more about the position, contact Anders Gemmel (CFO, LOTS Group) @anders.gemmel@lotsgroup.se

Application:

Your application should include a CV 
Please apply through our website HR Inline/Job search at Scania as soon as possible and no later than April 7th. Job Id 20231032

Selections and interviews will take place on an ongoing basis throughout the application period.