The BU Controlling function in Skoghall are looking for a new coworker to join the team as Business Controller.
The Business Controller is accountable for leading the business controlling agenda within their area of responsibility, ensuring robust financial governance, performance transparency, and value creation. As a strategic business partner, the role provides insightful financial analysis, challenges business assumptions, and supports the organization in making informed decisions that drive operational excellence and long-term competitiveness.
Tasks and responsibilities as Business Controller:
Business Partnering & Decision Support
- Serve as the finance business partner to operational leadership, providing financial insight, challenge, and guidance to support tactical and strategic decision-making
- Partner with sales, operations, and supply chain to support daily and tactical decision-making
- Provide profitability analyses for business steering and understand key drivers in area of responsibility
- Challenge assumptions, evaluate business cases in area of responsibility, and ensure sound financial governance in operational and investment decisions.
- Preparing business case calculations and support BU VCP and capex processes
- Acting as a back up for BU Controller
Performance Analysis & Reporting
- Monitor and analyse production performance, including yield, efficiency, and cost per unit of specific area of responsibility
- Conduct variance analysis (price, consumption, efficiency) and explain deviations vs. forecast of specific area of responsibility
- Calculate impact and identify root causes of performance gaps and drive corrective actions with respective area of responsibility
- Delivering finance and controlling outputs to Business Area, Group Functions, and the Business Unit, ensuring timeliness and accuracy
- Cooperate with other BA s controlling to understand profitability drivers e.g. Cartonboard CKB vs LPB
- Demonstrates a deep understanding of the business, value chain, market dynamics, and operational drivers.
- Understanding of fundamental financial principles (including IFRS)
- Experience from controlling in an international group environment
- Deep knowledge in modeling different scenarios, simulation, optimization and supporting business
- Deep knowledge of business, both sales and operations, as well as related processes
- Overall knowledge of group level consolidation OneStream and ERP systems
- Advance experience in MS Office, especially Excel
- Proactive attitude towards daily controlling operations and business partnering
- Team player – actively participating in team meetings
Planning & Forecasting
- Lead financial and operational performance management within the area of responsibility, ensuring transparency of key performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Maintain driver-based models linked to operational metrics e.g., OS segment costs update
- Continuously update forecasts based on latest operational and sales developments
- Highlight risks and opportunities in area of responsibility with recommended actions
Cost & Profitability Management
- Analyse and optimize cost structures, with focus on specific area of responsibility for variable and fixed cost absorption
- Provide high level scenario analysis on area of responsibility (e.g. raw material price changes, production shifts)
Inventory & Working Capital
- Partner with relevant stakeholder to optimize OWC levels in respective area of responsibility
Process & Systems Improvement
- Support improvements in financial and operational reporting tools
- Drive integration between production data (e.g. MES) and financial systems
- Support development of more data-driven and automated decision processes in area of responsibility
Required Education and Skills
- University degree (Masters) in Business administration, Industrial Management or similar
- Good indirect/crossfunctional leadership and management skills with ease to work in multicultural environment
- Proven track record of proactive approach, result orientated, willing to take initiative and responsibility
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to a changing working environment
- Experience from project work is essential, experience from project management is an advantage
- 4A mindset: ambition, agility, analytical approach, and accountability in area of responsibility
- Strong analytical skills together with a structured, systematic approach
How to apply:
External recruitment company Eterni is supporting us in this recruitment. To apply for the position. Click on the link below and fill in your application. MyEna
If you have any question please contact recruiting manager, BU Controller Helena Fjäll [email protected] m
Please send in your application to Eterni Aug 21 at the latest.
