In this position you will be a part of the team overall responsible for cost and working capital and a key resource providing our country and group management insight of our company’s financial performance. 

Our team currently consists of 4 persons and in addition of being responsible for ensuring that the management teams have the necessary steering information in order to make the right decisions, you will be able to work with a wide variety of tasks including driving cost programs, target settings and improvements that enable us to reach our ambitions. 

 

You will work closely with finance and commercial functions across divisions, challenging and supporting the Business Performance teams, as well as keeping good dialogue with central Group functions in Sweden. This position reports to Controlling Manager Cost, Investments & Working capital and is organized within the central business control unit. 

 

You are curious by nature and dare to think out of the box. You are independent with a strong drive. Still, you are a team player that appreciate an inclusive team environment. You have an analytical and structural mindset and have worked with Business controlling and analysis. With your solid background, you have proven quantitative and analytical skills, possess an excellent business understanding, and desire to deliver high quality with a strong commitment to deadlines. You like the dynamics of our industry and is motivated by changes that brings us forward. You are committed, engaged and take responsibility for creating a good working environment. You are a person who wants to develop in the role and can identify with our values “dare, care and simplify”. 

 

• Responsible of keeping overall overview of the company cost base in Norway 
• Carry out monthly reporting and analysis, analyzing variances from forecasts and targets, including a consolidated view of the company’s costs 
• Rolling forecasts 
• Monthly closing activities supporting commercial and administrative divisions, ensuring timely and accurate reporting 
• Proactively engage in identifying root causes of trends and variances through understanding of drivers and figures, providing guidance to management on potential cost improvements 
• Contributing to improve financial processes, principles and tools in the organization ensuring ownership and understanding of cost within their operational area of responsibilities 
• Support finance and the business performance teams on ad-hoc reporting and analysis 
• Be a key link between HR and finance ensuring good track and reporting of KPI’s 
• Ownership of cost structure and cost hierarchy and identify processes and methods to simplify tasks and way of working Personality 
• Strong analytical skills, business understanding and ability to quickly assess complex issues 
• Structured, efficient and able to communicate financial effects and drivers both for financial and non-financial recipients easily and understandable 
• Results oriented, ambitious and high working capacity with capability to work on various demanding tasks at the same time 
• Proactive and ability to challenge the organization in a constructive way, see solutions and follow up on results 
• Collaborative and one that builds relationships across professional environments and organizational levels 
• Independent and self-driven, but operating as a team player 
• Service minded with a positive attitude and willingness to go the extra mile to meet our organizational goals Experience 
• 3+ years of experience from a Business Controller function (or similar financial roles) 
• Minimum Bachelor and preferably Master within Economics or MBA 
• Experience handling large datasets and complicated contexts 
• As a minimum you have a good understanding of Norwegian and good command of the English language both spoken and written 
• Experience in working efficient in Excel and Power Point 

Start: ASAP

Length: 15.07.2020 (Option to prolong)

Workload: 100%

Workplace: Oslo

Work language: Scandinavian and/or English