Assistant Controller

Role Summary/Purpose:

You will be part of a great team of 8 experienced financial controllers. We are responsible for the Sweden reporting and interact with the operations as well as our shared service centers around the world.

Essential Responsibilities:

The Assistant Controller role is a key member of the team with responsibility for areas such as giving accounting guidance to the business and finance teams, manage the reporting of several holding entities and involved in key areas of the main manufacturing entity. The role also includes responsibility for our interactions with external and internal auditors and general support to the Sweden controller. There are also opportunities to lead or participate in projects and simplification initiatives, with both local and global scope.

The Assistant Controller is part of the Sweden Regional Controllership team which is responsible for giving controllership support to the Life Sciences operations in Sweden, including but not limited to the following areas:

Ensure Controllership & Compliance of all Finance Activities & Documentation within Local Statutory, GE Corporate & Business practices, policies and requirements
Overall responsibility for the Sweden entities month-end reporting, ensuring compliance with internal and external requirements, leveraging the GE global shared service centers for the transactional work
Monitoring and managing risks in the Sweden balance sheets
Partner and interact with GE global Shared service centers that are responsible for the transactional activities
Research and advice on complex technical accounting issues. Support operations leaders/teams to understand financial/accounting implications of transactions and other matters by providing GE expertise and technical accounting guidance
Work closely with financial and operational leadership to pro-actively assess and manage financial risk
Partner and interact with external auditors and GE Corporate Audit staff. Work with the operational and finance leaders to drive closure of open audit issues and proactively work to prevent future issues / manage risk
Monitor and drive business and corporate initiatives, simplification projects and provide leadership on these projects and other ad hoc special projects

The Assistant Controller supports the Sweden controller in all the above areas. Additionally the Assistant Controller has a specific focus and responsibility for independently manage the following specific areas:

Give complex technical accounting guidance to the operational and finance teams
Independently manage the reporting of the 4 Sweden holding entities, incl. interactions with board members and tax teams
Manage the complex pension reporting and analysis, incl. interactions with the global shared service center and the outsourced provider
Manage and coordinate external and internal audits, incl. coordination with the global shared service centers
Lead and/or support controllership and simplification project

Qualifications:

Degree in Finance with major in accounting
5+ years of experience from auditing or accounting from an international or listed company; auditor from one of the big auditor firms is highly desirable
Profound understanding and experience in the Swedish accounting policies, BFN/ K3
Familiar to US GAAP accounting
Super user of Excel is an asset
Fluent in English and Swedish
EU work permit