Financial Controller to Life Science company

The company was grounded in the middle of 1980 and they are approx.. 400 employees in Sweden and 2800 in the group. The Nordic Head-Office is located in Gothenburg near the center of the City.

 

Purpose of the role

The controller has a key role in the "Planning to result" and "Order to cash" processes as budget, estimates, follow up, deviation/correction, credit valuation, collection etc.  The position is also part of the monthly closing, statutory and IFRS, of the four legal entities in Nordics. The position together with the team will be the Financial Business Partner to Nordics. This role reports to the Head Of Controlling and the Financial Manager both placed in Gothenburg. Other responsibilities include Strategic Planning and Analysis, Accounting and Transaction Processing, Risk Management and Internal Controls and other ad hoc projects as required.

 

Main Tasks for the role:

• Provide high qualified management reporting and controlling both reactively and proactively for decision making, ROI and business support.
• Secure the assets of the company in account receivables by improve the DSO, age analyses, bad dept and write offs
• Provide qualified credit controlling with professional and systematic credit valuation of the customer, maintain the system with up to date credit limits and terms of payment according to the cash and collection process/policy.
• Drive efficiency in the order to cash processes as dunning procedure, blocking and unblocking customers, legal cases etc.
• Financial Planning process, including, quarterly forecast and annual budget
• Monthly results analysis and management reporting, including ongoing development of the management information such as project accounting
• Provide commercial analysis to support the financial performance targets of the Nordic sales organization
• Other ad hoc activities


 

Key requirements

• Qualification in accounting or other post-grad finance discipline with approx. 3-5 years commercial experience of accounting and business control
• Quality oriented with high understanding of business performance-, credit controlling and accounting
• Strong business partner to different teams and markets
• Experience in working with Sales & Marketing organizations
• Experience in ERP Systems (preferably SAP ), and business intelligence systems  
• Fluent in Swedish and strong command of English (written and verbal) and experience working in a multinational organization
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team
• Project management skills
• Strong technical skills in financial modeling using MS Excel and strong MS PowerPoint skills
• Strong attention to detail and meticulous approach to accuracy of financial models;
• Positive minded and flexible and self-driven person


 

Application and Contact: 
This recruitment is managed by PS Partner AB. If you find the role challenging and interesting, please apply through www.pspartner.se Interviews will be held continuously. If you have any questions regarding this position please contact Johan Sjöberg 0761-709851 or by mail johan.sjoberg@pspartner.se