Product Stream Controller

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.

As a Product Stream Controller, you will be able to both create, develop, and influence your daily work. You will assure profitability of our future products and offers by providing analysis on relevant cost types, benchmarks and steering business-related decisions based on value for customers. You will do that in close cooperation with the Management team within the Product Stream “Safe Vehicle Automation” and play an important role in the Streams contribution to the overall profitability of Volvo Cars.
We are looking for capable people with a business orientated mindset. We are looking for people with either finance experience or people with direct experience in product development (R&D) or possibly both. The location is Gothenburg.What you’ll doYou will work together with the Business Controller and the Operational teams within the Product Stream in providing financial recommendations based on data analysis, benchmarks, and business cases to the Solution Management team. The main responsibilities of a Product Stream Controller include:
·       Perform analysis on relevant data and use the insights to influence and steer decisions which have a financial impact.

·       Actively engage in prioritization of back-logs and challenge resource allocation decisions to ensure highest possible value for the customer and Return on Investment.

·       Create presentations and reports to visualize and communicate financial development and performance for different decision forums together with Business Controller.

·       Create awareness and contribute to the fostering of a business orientated mindset by providing financial expertise together with an understanding of business goals as well as putting cost into context. Influence decision-making towards business target and proactively initiate corrective actions to ensure financial targets as well as challenge operations to meet them.
·       Actively work with the Program Controllers in matters of content balancing and Material Cost bandwidth to achieve material cost targets, hence, contributing to a profitable end product.

·       Work together with other teams within Finance in actively contributing to developing, implementing, and improving financial principles, processes, and tools (globally and locally) within given area of responsibility.

And this is your profile
You have a University degree within Finance or Industrial Engineering. In your career you have obtained significant business insight and nourished your analytical skills. To be successful in this role it’s important that you are able to understand, interpret, analyse and communicate financial information clearly and concisely in a contextual and visual manner. Good communication and collaborations skills will therefore be something you consider as part of your skills.

Furthermore, we are looking for a candidate with proven leadership and problem-solving skills combined with a desire for results, as you will act as crucial part in the financial steering of the Product Stream.  

Desired qualifications:
·       Experience of finance work within R&D or other areas of Volvo Cars.
·       Experience of Product Development processes.
·       Good system understanding and efficient data handling. Experience in Pecca Procost and PowerBI merited.

Who you are
As a person you have a high sense of personal ownership, commitment, and accountability for everything you do. You take on a holistic approach combined with a positive focus to ensure financially sound business decisions. You take pride in ensuring high levels of accuracy and accuracy in your deliverables as well as work proactively to assist the organization to improve their financial processes and decisions.

You thrive in a fast-paced cross-functional environment and have the ability to plan and prioritize with a friendly and positive mindset that such requires.
How to learn more and apply
Is this you? Please don’t wait with your application, we will start the recruitment process immediately. Warm welcome with your application by 31 March at the latest. Please submit your application in English and note that due to GDPR we do not accept applications through email.
For any additional questions regarding the position feel free to contact hiring manager Alexander Runsbech -alexander.runsbech@volvocars.com or +46-70 363 57 61. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact senior recruiter jasleen.chhabda at jasleen.chhabda@volvocars.com