Business Controller

Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing, and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. We are committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions.

Our solutions to today’s global challenges are driven by our Mission of “Driving prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions” and our Vision “To be the most desired and successful transport and infrastructure solution provider in the world”.

Our Offer To You

Volvo Group offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and team-focused environment in a company that is well known for its state-of-the-art company culture and benefits. Our culture is about how we interact with each other, our customers, and with society as a whole. It helps us to achieve our business objectives, is firmly rooted in our history, and is critical to our company’s long-term success. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Volvo Group is defined by a set of five carefully chosen values, which include Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance. These values are a major force in guiding our day-to-day behavior and drive our decision making at all levels of the organization. Our values are easy to understand, and yet fundamentally important. They express our shared beliefs across countries and entities to form the basis for a high-performing culture that can help maximize the full potential of the organization.

To work with us is to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, and to be part of a reputation that has been earned for over a century. It is our responsibility to honor that heritage and build an even stronger future for our company moving forward. Each of our individual actions collectively define who we are as a company and how the world sees us.

Would you like to be a part of our team and join us on our journey?

What You Will Be Doing

The Cash Flow, Uptime, & Indirect Products and Services Controlling organization is an important function to secure long-term profitability within Group Trucks Purchasing (GTP). The Business Controller will be a part of a high performing global team based in the US, India, France, and Sweden. You will be close to the operations but independent, working to safeguard integrity and fostering a bottom-line impact mindset in purchasing activities and behaviors. You will secure timely and qualitative monthly deliveries in closing, provide guidance and support to the organization on your area of expertise and scope, and will actively contribute to projects and process improvements.

This position will report to the Director for Cash Flow, Uptime, & Indirect Products and Services Controlling, and will be based out of our Greensboro, NC campus location.

Business Partnership Activities and Responsibilities:

• Act as a business partner (understand needs, question, and support)
• Perform defined control loop for cases booked each month in the region
• Perform regular audits on cases reported in system
• Produce monthly bridges (versus previous forecast, month)
• Prepare and provide monthly performance synthesis including Indirect Products & Services (IPS) financial contribution KPI’s, payment terms, spend analysis, OPEX/HC
• Contribute to continuous improvements within IPS to ensure consistent, traceable, and credible performance measurement and reporting
• Be actively involved in all projects affecting IPS financial KPI’s
• Contribute to annual budget or forecast related processes

Payment Terms/Cash Flow Activities and Responsibilities:

• Perform closing and analysis of cash flow from trade payables
• Manage monthly payment terms closing, analysis, and reporting
• Follow-up of cash flow improvement initiatives
• Support buyers and managers to improve payment days and/or group cash flow by proactively analyzing the payment term supplier base
• Drive and coordinate regional specific payment terms / cash flow projects together with internal stakeholders within Volvo Group
• Support buyers with cash flow principles during negotiations preparation: interest rates, cash flow mechanism, cost of capital
• General support on rules/restrictions within payment terms areas such as FPP compliance, local limitations, or contractual requirements
• Manage early payment requests: challenge reasons for the request and secure policy compliance, analysis of impact and feasibility

What We Are Looking For

• Recent university graduate with a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or business
• Ability/desire to work in collaboration with a global team
• Strong IT skill set inclusive of Microsoft Office applications
• Developed prioritization and organization skills
• Proactive, agile, trustworthy, dependable

Compensation/Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Solid group health benefits package (medical, dental, vision, disability, life, etc.)
• 401(K) with company match as well as additional contribution percentage
• Strong vacation benefits
• Global organization with expansive career growth opportunities
• Volvo Group University for professional development
• Workplace Health and Wellness program
• Reimbursement programs
• Etc.

About Us

The Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. Founded in 1927, the Volvo Group is committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions. Countless career opportunities are offered across the group’s leading brands and entities that share a culture of Trust, Passion, High Performance, Change and Customer Success.

www.volvogroup.com/career.

Volvo Group Trucks Purchasing has 125 BSEK in purchasing annual spend and 2,550 supply chain partners in serial production. We deliver the best possible products and service that bring value to our customers through scouting and working with high performing supply chain partners.

We support Volvo Group’s mission ‘Driving prosperity through transport solutions’ through sustainability, business ethics and innovation. When you join Volvo Group Trucks Purchasing, you will become part of a global network with more than 1,400 professionals in 50 different sites across 25 countries. Joining us means working in a global context with people from diverse backgrounds and different nationalities while contributing to the core business and results of Volvo Group.

Diversity is important for us, we therefore put a lot of time and effort into creating an open and inclusive environment for all. We are extremely proud to say that we are almost as many females as men in our team. We are goal oriented and business focused people who believe that the best results are achieved while having fun and when we challenge each other. We offer unique opportunities where you can accelerate your career through competence development and connect with people who are truly passionate for purchasing. Join us and work where the action is!

Auto req ID

122304BR

Organization

Group Trucks Purchasing

State / Province

North Carolina

City/Town

Greensboro

Employment/Assignment Type

Regular

Travel Required (maximum)

Occasional Travel

Functional Area

Finance & Control

Last application date

04-Mar-2022

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