Finance Controller

Are you our new Finance Controller? My name is Irén, I´m looking for a new colleague to our Finance team in Sweden. 

Would you like to be part of a great team?
Would you like to contribute and learn new things?
Me and my team is offering a challenging and inspiring role.
Come and join us!

You will be part of our amazing Finance team in Sweden and the focus area for us is to secure the quality in our monthly and yearly closing of the book process as well as securing that we are compliant with both legal and internal framework and rules. You will together with your colleagues be responsible for accurate and timely monthly cost reporting and analysis for IKEA Components and provide financial analysis, follow-up, statistics and reports for various stakeholders in the organization. 

Digitalization is setting the foundation for Finance, and you will be an important player in our team to contribute to implementation of new methodologies and ways of working connected to our Finance Process. You will participate and contribute with input and ideas to our always ongoing Finance development agenda. You will together with your colleagues work with standardizing and automating ways of working. 

To be successful in this role, we believe that you have at least 3-5 years of experience from the finance and controlling area. You inspire, clarify, create togetherness and collaboration. To find better ways and enable change is important for you.
You are curious and have experience from working with the data that is generated from our financial transactions, by your analytical skills you can turn data into information which in turn creates insights and recommendations to the business. 

You can shift focus from details to a holistic view and through your good communication skills you build strong network with stakeholders, at all levels of the organization.
You have knowledge of, and interest in reporting and Business information tools like PBI, Cognos, SAP BPC, Excel or equivalent. Experience from M3, our ERP system, is valuable to have.

You have a degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or equivalent knowledge gained from work experience. You have good knowledge in Swedish -Accounting, VAT and commercial law. Fluent in English in both speech and writing.
For me it’s very important that you are guided by our IKEA values in your daily behaviors and are inspired by our vision.

Many things you can learn as we go but values and our vision are crucial that you share from the beginning. More information around our values you can find here: https://about.ikea.com/en/about-us/ikea-culture-and-values.

Does this sound like your next challenge? So, are you the one we are looking for? Hurry up and apply!
If so, we will be happy to receive your application in English at the latest April 18th 2022.
If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Finance Manager Irén Åberg, iren.aberg@inter.ikea.com.and if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist Christina Appelqvist, +46766-113408
Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, so we might close the advertisement earlier if we find the right candidate.

IKEA Components holds a unique position within the IKEA value chain. We develop and supply IKEA with customer friendly component solutions for better products – and better homes. This includes a responsibility for selected components and raw material, which means develop, purchase and supply to IKEA suppliers. IKEA Components also have the assignment to provide After Sales service of components to the end customers.  
We are currently on an exciting journey with the IKEA retail equipment range and IKEA Industry activities within purchase that has joined IKEA Components. All with the common ambition to deliver more customer value together, reduce the total supply cost and continue to grow our business and people