Business Controller - Nordics

Reporting to the head of department, this role is an integral position within the management team of the Nordic sales organizations. Through business partnering, you will ensure that your divisions are well equipped to steer the business units to meet their respective targets.

The role is split between management accountant tasks and value adding business partnering activities. When performing the management accountant tasks, you will focus on accuracy of reporting, forecasting, and commenting during Monthly Business Reporting / Current Forecast / Year End Closing / Business Plan scenarios in order to provide useful information for business steering as well as to be compliant with internal or external requirements. During business partnering activities, you act as a consultant to proactively optimize the business targets and KPIs.

Your primary tasks will be:

• Financial consultant to the senior management team in order to support in the achievement of divisional targets
• Detailing opportunities and risks to the business, identifying areas for improvement, and providing expertise and support in following through on agreed actions
• Provide financial analysis and scenarios for long term country divisional strategy 
• Managing and motivating a team, setting targets, providing coaching support, monitoring performance, and managing changes as necessary 
• Manage P&L to optimize performance and ensure reporting accuracy including forecasting 
• Manage relationship with global hubs to ensure correct reporting in ERP/HFM 
• Ensure that divisional financials are in line with external auditing requirements, manage relationship and requests from external auditors 
• Represent global country sales organizations and act as a consultant to central with regards to decision making regarding project implementations 
• Present findings of margin analysis to directors and work with sales force to optimize product/customer profitability 
• Ensure accuracy of transfer pricing calculations

What distinguishes you?

You should have a successful track record in building strong relationships with internal customers, managing conflicts as well as negotiation outcomes to improve overall performance. Further, we imagine that you:

• Are able to tailor your communication of financial matters to non-financial colleagues
• Are result and future oriented with the ability to quickly adapt to changes in the working environment
• Have a Master’s degree in Finance, Economics or Business Administration
• Have experience with MBR, CF, BP and Year End processes
• Have working knowledge of SAP R/3 FI-CO (Financial and Controlling module) and/or S/4 HANA; if not, it is a prerequisite to be an advanced user of similar ERP systems
• Have excellent IT skills and the ability to utilize tools for the management of big data
• Have knowledge of automation
• Are fluent in English, both written and spoken, as this is our business language. Knowing German and some Scandinavian languages are seen as an advantage.

As part of Bosch you will be part of a strong Nordic team with cross-border assignments. You will be part of a company that has an employee-centric focus, where we value employee development and wellbeing and hence have several interesting offers and benefits. You will e.g. get a good and healthy canteen, physiotherapy, a good employee association with different events (sports, theater, bowling etc.) and a good health insurance incl. a health package for the entire family.

The position is located in Ballerup in a walking distance from Ballerup train station. Depending on the candidate, it would also be possible to be located in Lund, Sweden or Riga, Latvia.

As we are eager to find our new colleague, we are interviewing on a continuous basis. So please do not hesitate to submit your application already today to come and join a truly international company with more than 420.000 dedicated employees worldwide that values education and personal development.