Accounting Controller to Corporate Accounting

Company Description
We are committed to lead the change toward a better fashion future. H&M Group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. To continue to meet our customer needs and transform an industry, we need employees with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Finance and Accounting is responsible for making sure that the H&M Group can handle all business initiatives in a legally compliant way and ensure that all brands and sales-channels are aligned from an accounting perspective. We are a strategic business partner and support the H&M Group's business development in order to achieve our long-term goals. We are responsible for ensuring that the financial reporting keeps up with the high pace of the group.
Job Description
The Corporate Accounting Department’s main responsibility is to set up and maintain accounting guidelines for the H&M Group. As a strategic business partner to all H&M accounting departments around the world we ensure that best practice is applied. We offer you 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.
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Work with and ensure quality of our financial reporting by proactively adapting our routines to constant changes
Work with monthly-, quarterly- and yearly cuts for the Swedish companies within the H&M brand as well as the H&M Group to ensure accuracy of the financial reports
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 legally compliant

Qualifications
A degree within Business Administration & Economics or equivalent
Minimum 3-6 years of relevant working experience from a similar role
Experience from working with stock accounting within a global organization is a great advantage
Experience from working within an accounting/auditing firm is an advantage
A genuine interest in working with accounting as well as developing accounting processes
Strong ability to plan, execute and prioritize

We also believe that you are a collaborator and a true team player that likes to coach, support and help others and naturally builds cross functional networks and relationships. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to customize communication to different needs when involving yourself in discussions with people from different functions and markets within the H&M Group.
Additional Information
This is a permanent position based in Marievik, Stockholm.
If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send in your resume (no need for cover letter) by latest the 24th of April, 2022
We look forward to receiving your application!
H&M Group is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.