Job ID: R0010009

Date posted: 06/12/2024

The IKEA brand is one of the most successful home furnishing brands in the world with over 450 retail stores worldwide. We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people, this vision is achieved by offering a wide range of home furnishings solutions with good design and function, at prices so low that as many people as possible, will be able to afford them.

IKEA Services India is one of the Supply Areas for IKEA, which represent South Asia Region comprising of India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh (Supply Area South Asia-SASA). SASA has a rich history of sourcing from the South Asia region for more than four decades. Over these years, we have brought in many processes and best practices that have improved the way we work with our business partners. Transformation of textile, carpet industry and recycle plastic industry are a few such examples. This partnership with suppliers has helped to continuously grow our sourcing operations.

The Supply Area Controller supports the function Finance Performance and Operations in the operational closing work with accruals, re bookings, cost follow up and follow up of financial KPI’s.

• Leads performance management agenda and enables high performance culture.
• Leads SA Planning & Execution Process including development of Portfolio and Project Management.

Assignment: Job specific key tasks and responsibilities:

Financial Controlling:

• Secure journals & allocations during the period close & perform variance analysis, ensuring correct actuals.
• Secure strong internal controls and ensure the compliance of operations, e.g., segregation of duties, process evaluations and document management.
• Ensure assessment of actual financial performance and report on findings.
• Support the financial planning and forecasting process from an operational finance perspective, securing correct actuals, and insights to optimize financial planning and forecasting accuracy.
• Support Business Navigation with financial data and insights to strategic decisions, visualizing the impact on the bottom-line to maximize value.

 Business Controlling:

• Validate and consolidate forecasts and resource planning on Legal units level.
• Validate Goal setting, from a financial and business consequence point of view.
• Secure relevant performance reporting and explanation of any deviations (functional and legal perspective) and make insights actionable for management.
• Proactively identify and analyze cost drivers to identify opportunities for cost reduction and process optimization = Financial analysis.  

FP&O specific

Business Controlling

• Support Supply Area business planning and execution process (PEP) and follow up on PEP project deliverables and secure adherence to Supply Area Project Management process.

Risk and Compliance

• Execute Risk and Compliance activities on Company and Area level, including Compliance Self-Assessment, with action plan follow up, risk register and mitigation actions, key controls and local Sanction Partly Screening.

Other

• Continuously work with improvements and actively participate in applicable Finance Performance & Operations Networks.
• Provide local market insights based on Supply Area Need

 Your profile:

• Postgraduate in Commerce and or MBA Finance. And or University degree within Finance and Controlling.
• Core experience of 5 to 8 years.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office 365 package, especially Power BI or other business intelligence tool.
• Deep understanding of Supply Areas Assignment and structure.
• Good knowledge of business intelligence tools in general.
• Good knowledge of project and portfolio management methodology and tools.
• Good knowledge of market specific conditions and macroeconomics trends.
• Capability to perform key business analysis, risk assessment, scenario planning.
• Capability to understand and act in a complex environment, translate a strategy into action and achieve results.
• Ability to initiate and lead the change towards new ways of working and applications in a big organization, great leadership.
• Ability to build trustful relations with different stakeholders in remote locations; excellent communicator.
• Creative and engaging approach to business surrounding.

Please send us your application – CV and letter of motivation. Make sure you tell us why you would be a good fit for this role. Please send at the latest 17-Dec-2024. Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate. So, don’t delay, please send us your application today.

This is a permanent position located in Bengaluru, India. If you have questions about the position, please write to Recruitment India.

We are an equal opportunity employer:
At IKEA, we value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are committed to providing coworkers with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We encourage individualism and invite you to come join our team and be yourself with us! We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristic protected by law. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need.