Business Controller, Retail Finance

We are looking for an ambitious & enthusiastic Business Controller to support the Swedish branch. This is a permanent position, based in Malmö and reports to the Head of Risk & Business Control.

As a Business Controller in the Swedish team, you will be supporting the business areas Partner Sales and IKEA, providing them with analysis of their financial performance, and helping them to forecast and control costs. You will be a true business partner. 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.

Help us simplify finance for the many people

You will be part of the Swedish Controller-team, responsible for the financial and management analysis of the Swedish branch. Your specific duties include:

• Production of budget & forecasts
• Perform the Monthly cut-off and year-end reporting for our Partners & IKEA business
• Be responsible for performing the budgeting and forecasting activities for these functions, including organizing and leading meetings with all key stakeholders to ensure that they know their numbers and take ownership for their cost centres.
• Regular monthly follow-up with the heads of each function to ensure that they understand their function´s financial performance, both at an overall level and by cost centre.
• Ensure that cost allocations are done properly to ensure a correct result for each product
• Be an engaged business partner in helping to manage the functions, identifying key drivers and suggesting areas where efficiencies can be gained.
• Ensure that accruals are made according to financial accounting standards, and to secure reliant and accurate financial reports and business decisions.
• Perform various ad hoc analyses, supporting the Head of Risk & Business Control in various tasks related to reporting the performance for the Bank.

We offer you

Operating at the centre of events, you will have an active business partnering role, with the scope to truly drive the agenda and bring value to key stakeholders of the business. If you are new to controlling we will provide you with on the job training, and a rapid personal development. 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 have Bachelor level degree in Finance or Business Administration and a minimum of 3 years of experience working as a business controller or similar. You have good knowledge of accounting and management accounting principle as well as experience or knowledge of cost allocation models and basic transfer pricing knowledge. Previous experience from different financial systems and dimension structures is a plus. Lastly, you have good knowledge/ability to assimilate data from accounting systems and analysis-tools (e.g. Navision, Oracle PBCS, Qlikview, Excel).

As a person you are analytical, a quick learner and well structured. You enjoy working in a team and communicating with different stakeholders. 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.

We want our customers, partners and co-workers to choose us for what we stand for, what we deliver and how we deliver it. Three basic values guide our work: common sense and simplicity, working together and daring to be different. These values should feel natural to you.

Join us now – together we will find a better way

We look forward to receiving your application with CV and a cover letter prior to the 18th of April 2021. Please note that we are unable to accept applications via email. For questions about the position please contact Albert Snäll Berendahl, Head of Risk & Business Control at albert.berendahl@ikano.se.

Please note that Ikano bank will perform a 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 creates possibilities for better living by offering simple, fair and affordable services, enabling a healthy economy for the many people. Our offer includes savings and loan products for consumers, sales support services for retailers, and leasing and factoring solutions for businesses. We conduct business in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK, Poland, Germany and Austria, and is part of Ikano. Ikano is an international group of companies active within banking, real estate, production, insurance, analytics and retail. Ikano Group was established in 1988 and is owned by the Kamprad family.