Application Developer - Microsoft Technologies

Electrolux is a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, selling more than 40 million products to customers in 150 countries every year. The company focuses on innovations that are thoughtfully designed, based on extensive consumer insight, to meet the real needs of consumers and professionals. Electrolux products include refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and cookers sold under esteemed brands such as Electrolux, AEG-Electrolux, Zanussi, Eureka and Frigidaire. In 2006, Electrolux had sales of SEK 104 billion and 59,500 employees. For more information, visit http://www.electrolux.com/press. Electrolux IT is responsible for the IT strategy of the Electrolux Group and how this is implemented throughout an extensive range of solutions, systems and applications that are fundamental for all of the Group's operations around the world. Our 510 employees serve some 30,000 IT users at all levels of the Electrolux Group. APPLICATION DEVELOPER - MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES Objectives: Group Treasury IT, a part of Business Support CoE, is supporting Group Treasury and Group Accounting with IT applications. Business Support CoE, belongs to the Global Business Applications organization within Electrolux IT,are supporting different IT solutions like Financial Reporting Systems, Treasury Systems, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Group Applications and Archiving solutions etc. The members of the team as well as the users of the IT solutions are spread around Europe. "RACE" - Reporting And Consolidation in Electrolux - is the tool that handles financial reporting within the Electrolux Group. REACT is a database, with RACE data, using MS Olap cubes and a Cognos tools for analyzing and making reports. The Application Developer will be responsible for client/server applications like "RACE/REACT" or similar ones in cooperation with other IT colleagues. There will also be many contacts to IT Operations as well as to the business, which owns the applications. The responsibility is to ensure a well running server application, well performing databases, stable batch scripts and interfaces, user-friendly Web-interfaces with security settings and to continue with the software development and programming according to business requirements and international regulations and processes. Previous experience & Personal attributes: -Financial knowledge and interest -University degree within Financial and/or System Design -Logical thinking -Communication and influencing -Self development -Team player and self-going -Ability to work against high-pressure deadlines -Microsoft software development technologies like Visual Basic 6 and .Net, HTML, ASP, Java, Java Script, macro languages like in MS Office -MS SQL Server 2000/ 2005 usage and administration, SQL-queries, Jobs, DTS packages and Stored Procedures, MS OLAP techniques, MS SQL Reporting Services. -Preferably Windows 2000/ 2003 Server administration with IIS Web server, Windows Domain security, basic Network knowledge -Additional knowledge of Microsoft Windows clients with Windows 2000/ Windows XP -Good data modeling skills with relational databases (Tables, Relations, Keys) -MS Office tool suite, especially MS Excel and MS Access -Preferably administration knowledge of a Client / Server applications -Basic understanding of Middleware and network technologies -Occasional international business travels (more frequent in the first months) -Strong English written and verbal and preferably another major European language