Controller/Business Service Representative

Sibelco is a global leader in material solutions. Sibelco sources, transforms and distributes specialty industrial minerals – particularly silica, clays, feldspathics and olivine – and is a leader in glass recycling. Sibelco's solutions support the progress of modern life and serve industries as diverse as glass, ceramics, construction, coatings, polymers and water purification. The Sibelco Group operates 114 production sites in 31 countries, with a team of some 5,300 people.
Location: Baskarp or Lödöse, Sweden
Positioning: Business Service Representative
Role Purpose:This role is responsible for the financial controlling activities, working closely with the Manager Business Services to provide him/her all relevant insights and documents the Manager needs to support in collaboratively partnering with the Director Operations Cluster and Director Commercial Cluster in driving the cluster performance.
As Finance expert within the BST, this role is involved into the different cluster performance topics such as building the cluster budget, product costing, defining CAPEX envelop and monitoring & reporting on investments. This role is also responsible for monitoring variance and analysing the actual results with plans.
In addition, this role is a true multitasker, also supporting the business in the transactional procurement and transactional finance activities.
Responsibilities:
• Product cost planning
- Perform and deliver product cost planning, analysis and reporting
- Guides cost analysis process by enforcing policies and procedures, explaining processes and techniques
• Inventory management
- Perform and deliver inventory accounting
• Budgeting and forecast
- Set up and deliver cluster budget and forecast, and monitor variances
• Analysis and reporting
- Drive and deliver period end-closing analysis and reporting
• CAPEX
- Following up end-to-end CAPEX process, including financial justification calculation and post investment reviews
• Transactional procurement
- Generate and Request Purchase orders for goods and services required by the business in the cluster
- Resolve PO mismatches
- Provide ad-hoc support to the Sub-Regional procurement team when required
• Transactional finance
- Data entry into ERP systems
- Ensure proper coding of invoices
Key competences & skills - Technical skills requirements
• Technical expertise in finance and accounting
• Strong knowledge of cost accounting
• Deep understanding of financial controlling activities, budgeting and forecast processes and models
• Expertise in running profitability analysis, variance analysis, costing deviation analysis and working capital monitoring
• Ability to analyse financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections
• Working knowledge of short- and long-term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets, and product-line profitability analysis.

Key competences & skills – Behavioral skills requirements
• Delivery focus - respects deadlines and plans resources correctly
• Open minded
• Team player
• Pro-active
• Able to work independently
• Diplomatic
• Strong people relation skills
• Self-motivated
• Performance & action oriented
• Strong problem solving skills

To Apply: Please click apply to register your information and contact details on the recruitment portal so one of our team can get in touch.
Please note we will not be requiring agency services for this recruitment.
Sibelco recognise the strength of our diverse global workforce and value difference and inclusion for all. Our rich mix of people bring an exciting exchange of ideas and knowledge to keep us moving forward and innovating new solutions. We seek talent of all backgrounds and abilities and continue to develop our leaders and our culture to help all employees to grow and reach their full potential.