Plant Controller VCT

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What's in it for you?
At Volvo Car Torslanda, you are part of a committed production team in a global network that makes sure that the cars we build meet the highest expectations from our customers. In our assembly plant in Torslanda, we work with lean, clean and flexible production technologies - with a firm focus on people and continuous development. Each production team has an overall responsibility for quality, finance, delivery and team development.

The VCT finance team has the overall responsibility for challenging and supporting the operation in all financial and business-related activities both short and long term; we work with inventory, investments, manning efficiency as well as inbound freight, facility management and all other manufacturing cost. The plant is producing, at full capacity, 300 000 cars per year and is one of the biggest car manufacturing plants in the world.


What you'll do
With challenging dialogues, follow up and interaction with the operation you as a Plant Controller will play a major role in this journey towards our future. Your main area will be the assembly shop that consist of over 2500 operators that produces cars in 3-shifts. Main challenges will be to steer the shop in the right direction and prioritize amongst all the various initiatives that exist in order to improve efficiency and increase ownership for the total cost including material flow, investments and manning.

Focus will also be on making financials more understandable for the operation in order to increase a business and holistic mindset within the operation and the management team where you will be a key player. The role requires good operational understanding and the connection between operation and finance will be crucial. In this role you will be part of both an operational management team and a financial team and you will also have a global network of controllers throughout the world to collaborate with.


Who are you?
We are looking for you who has a University Degree in Economics, Finance or similar. You have at least 5 years of relevant work experience within finances and/or operations. You are fluent in English (speaking and writing) and you have good computer skills (Power BI, PowerPoint, XLS, SAP). Knowledge from global manufacturing is beneficial.

As a person you are enjoying work in a fast pace environment, as a new car is rolling out of the plant every minute. You are good at understanding and explaining the reality behind the figures and the figures behind the reality. You can change focus between holistic and detailed view, e.g. shift between talking 4bsek long term investment with the management team, to review scrap cost with our operators.

You are flexible and have good cooperation skills - since we are a finance team of 4 that are responsible for a plant of 6000 FTEs, 8bsek of cost, 1,5bsek of inventory and yearly investments of ~1bsek, we need to work together as a team to solve all types of challenges and (re)prioritize activities. And, in order to work with continuous improvements both personal, financial and operational you need to have an interest and eagerness to always develop and learn more.


How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter in English via link no later than May 29th. Please note that we do not handle any applications over email due to GDPR.

If you have any questions regarding the position you are welcome to contact Peter Swane, Director & Business Controller Torslanda Plant, via phone +46 72 371 63 29 or at peter.swane@volvocars.com For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter Malin Westman at malin.westman@volvocars.com.  Warm welcome with your application!