Accounting Controller to Corporate Accounting

Company Description


H&M is a world-leading fashion company, with more than 160.000 employees and over 4900 stores in 72 markets and 47 online-markets. H&M Group also includes COS, Weekday, Monki, &Other Stories, ARKET, H&M Home, Afound.

We offer a challenging role with the opportunity to influence the ways of working within global accounting. You will be given a lot of responsibility from day one and you will be working in a team together with experienced colleagues.
The global Finance and Accounting function is responsible for making sure that the H&M Group can handle all business initiatives in a legal compliant way and ensure that all brands and sales-channels are aligned from an accounting perspective. We are responsible for assuring that the financial reporting keeps up with the high pace of the H&M-group. This is an opportunity to join a global organization and a function that works for all brands and sales-channels.
The Corporate Accounting departments main responsibility is to set up and maintain accounting guidelines for the H&M group. It is also a support function for all H&M accounting departments around the world to make sure best practice is applied.




Job Description


The job of an Accounting Controller comes with lots of responsibility – and lots of fun. Your to do-list includes:
Work with monthly-, quarterly- and yearly cuts for the Swedish companies within H&M as well as the H&M group to ensure accuracy of the financial reports
Work with ongoing accounting tasks connected to the main responsibilities of corporate accounting i.e. stock in trade
Work with our global accounting principles and create accounting routines to be used as instructions for our accounting colleagues around the world.
Participate in projects that affects the financial reporting
Align the accounting routines towards the local organizations and make sure that it is correct and legal compliant.





Qualifications


Just like everyone at H&M, we believe you are a sales-minded, social, open, communicative and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism. Your personal qualities also include:
Degree within Business Administration & Economics (or similar)
Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience from a similar role
Experience from working within an accounting/auditing firm is a great advantage
A genuine interest in working with accounting as well as developing accounting processes
Strong analytical skills
Fluent English skills, both in speech and writing
Strong ability to plan, execute and prioritize
You are skilled within communication and like to involve yourself in discussions with people from different functions and markets within the company.
Good MS office skills





Additional Information


If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application, including CV and a Cover Letter in English where you describe your experience by latest Dec 18th 2020.
We look forward to hearing from you!