Business Controller Commercial

We are looking for an ambitious & hands-on Business Controller to work with the Commercial function of Ikano Bank. This is a permanent position, based in Malmö and reports to the Head of Business Control.

As a Business Controller in our central team, you will take responsibility for controlling support to the Commercial function, including sales & profitability follow-up, financial planning and forecasting, performance analysis and business casing/ investment evaluation. You will be a true business partner, acting in close cooperation with the bank’s Chief Commercial Officer.

You will be part of Ikano Bank, where we create possibilities for a better living by providing banking and financial services. We do it with different perspectives, natural curiosity and long-term focus. A unique chance for greater responsibility and future opportunities. Let’s achieve great things together.

You will help us simplify finance for the many people

You will be part of the central business controlling team, which together is responsible for the holistic financial planning, steering and management analysis of the Bank. Your specific responsibilities include:

• Support in building a profitable product portfolio and profitable growth for the bank, incl. target setting, profitability analyses and to proactively suggest and drive improvement projects/actions
• Ensure commercial transparency by developing, standardizing and maintaining bank-wide sales, market and customer performance KPI’s and dashboards
• Define and deliver appropriate follow up on sales performance and deviation analyses, incl. consolidation of reliant and easy to understand commercial reports to relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate the budgeting and forecasting activities for the commercial functions, with special focus on growth and profitability steering
• Regular monthly follow-up with relevant stakeholders to ensure that they understand the financial performance
• Support in creating and evaluating product and partner Business Case's, incl. securing the process of regularly Business case follow up to management
• Be an engaged business partner to support the Head of Business Control and the CCO in various tasks related to follow-up, performance reporting and improvement actions
• Perform various ad hoc analyses

We offer you

Operating at the center of events, you will have an active business partnering role, with the scope to truly drive the agenda and bring value to the business. This position is more than what meets the eye. You will get the chance to push boundaries and influence your daily work. All as part of a caring and open culture where we live our values, work hard, have fun and operate with a long-term perspective. Because here opportunities arise and growth follows.

Are you the one for Ikano?

We believe that you are an experienced business control/ finance professional with a strong business acumen, personal confidence and a will to make your voice heard in order to facilitate positive change. You take a holistic view and focus on the key aspects in partnering with the business to challenge established truths.

As a person you are ambitious, hands-on and down-to-earth with a professional but humble approach. You enjoy analytical challenges, are a quick learner and well structured. You believe in the strength of teamwork and appreciate interacting with a heterogenous group of stakeholders where mutual respect is key. You are engaged and self-driven and enjoy working towards continuous improvement. Furthermore, you have the ability to create good relations and act in various environments.

Experience

• 3 - 5 years of experience working as a business controller or similar, in a commercially oriented context
• Understanding of the sales process within the sales finance business
• Knowledge of product profitability methods and understanding of cost allocation principles
• Good knowledge/ability to assimilate data from accounting systems and analysis-tools (e.g. Navision, Qlikview/ QlikSense, Excel)
• Working in an international environment and group structure is advantageous

Qualifications

• Bachelor level degree in Finance or Business Administration
• Fluent in English (verbal and written) and good knowledge in Nordic languages

Key Characteristics

• Analytic and well-structured
• Team player and communicative
• Engaged and self-driven
• Hands-on mindset
• Simplicity
• Drive towards continuous improvement
• Ability to create good relations and act in various environments
• Quick learner

Join us now – together we will find a better way

Send your application no later than 2021-11-08. More information can be given by Olof Friberg, Head of Business Controll, Olof.Friberg@ikano.se or +46735186630.

Please note that Ikano bank will perform credit check and request an extract from the criminal records as part of the pre-employment screening.

If Ikano discovers adverse credit in your name or should our investigations identify any other criminal offence by you (on your part) this may result in failure of the pre-employment screening. Failure to pass the above checks will result in an offer of employment being withdrawn. Please therefore contact the HR Department if you are concerned about any of the above or feel that there is any reason that you may not pass the above checks, contact HR at HRSupport.IKBAB@ikano.se, if you have any queries.

About us

Ikano Bank offers simple and fair savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for businesses. Ikano Bank has a presence in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria. Ikano Bank is part of Ikano Group, who is an international group of companies operating in the areas of banking, insurance, production, real estate and retail. At Ikano, our vision is to create possibilities for better living. We do this by working together to create simple and meaningful solutions based on fair terms that bring value to our customers. Ikano Group was established in 1988 and is owned by the Kamprad family.