IKEA Communications AB

What if you could inspire to make everyday life just a little bit better?

The answer is simple: You can. This is what motivates us at IKEA. We’re constantly searching to find new ways to be better. We use insights from real life at home all over the world, learning about the needs and dreams of people. We use our home furnishing knowledge to help inspire people with ideas and solutions that will help them live the life they want.

At IKEA Communications, we’re people-centric, have a passion for making great stuff, and we aim to be the best communication partner for the whole of IKEA. We work closely and together with our colleagues across IKEA, creating state-of-the-art communication at the lowest price. Located in Älmhult, Sweden, we’re a melting pot of many different nationalities and cultures. Because in order to make things better for the many, we want to involve people from all parts of the world. Nonetheless, we never forget our Swedish heritage that forms the backbone of who we are today.

We’re on the lookout for passionate doers, idea makers, creative thinkers - people who want to find answers to everyday problems in people’s lives, for society and the planet.

We’re on the lookout for passionate doers, idea makers, creative thinkers - people who want to find answers to everyday problems in people’s lives, for society and the planet.

Do you also believe in celebrating the everyday life? Do you want to be part of making it happen from idea to paper or pixel? Then keep on reading.

At IKEA Communications we are setting up a new organisational structure to lead the next generation IKEA communications from assignment management through creation and production to content made available to IKEA to use.

We’re now looking for a Business Navigation & Finance Manager who can facilitate a strong performance culture and lead with insights in order to identify business potentials and enable innovation. You will also steer the business through the strategic landscape, taking lead in fact based decision-making and supporting with tools, insights and recommendations to enable goal achievements and financial control.     

As a Business Navigation & Finance Manager will steering business through the strategic landscape, taking lead in fact based decision-making and supporting with tools, insights and recommendations, enable goal achievements and customer satisfaction.    

 You will:

• Enable business development by being an active partner in business and action planning; securing that business intelligence is analysed and acted upon, identifying potentials and risks in and around the business, taking lead in budgeting and financial planning and exploring the future by building scenarios and contingency plans.
• Secure conditions for a long term profitable business by navigating and steering towards set goals and within financial frames.
• Be responsible for financial planning, record keeping and reporting, adherence to power of authority (POA) structure and common chart of accounts (CCA) and accurate accounting, budgeting and resource planning. Responsible for securing and reporting accurate and compliant accounted results.
• Be responsible for securing compliance to accounting and tax laws and legal rules and standards. Ensure governance and compliance with local laws (in the area of Finance, Tax and Administration) as well as IKEA internal rules and guidelines (i.e. Code of Conduct). Act as the contact person to external authorities (tax, legal, government, etc.) in case of enquiries or inspections.
• Be responsible for securing the operative flow of the yearly and monthly closing of the book process.
• Lead business performance management; lead the translation of business plans into goals and budgets and steer towards a balanced totality, secure timely, accurate, relevant and understandable performance and financial reporting and follow-up and lead fact based decision making.
• Facilitate a strong performance culture where navigation is pro-active towards clear goals and budgets, deviations are detected early and acted upon and where business and financial insights reach the right receivers at the right time.
• Secure overall implementation and compliance to processes and ways of working by securing governance structure, deviations handling, meeting calendar and year cycle in the unit.
• Lead project portfolio management, to ensure right priorities in relation to business plan ambitions and balanced resource planning.
• Be responsible for communicating business results, financial results and goal achievement in a clear and inspiring way, making business analysis available and actionable and for working actively with raising overall business and financial understanding in the unit.
• Be overall responsible for risk management, safety & security, maintenance and overall process implementation and compliance
• Recruit, develop and secure succession of Business navigation and finance co-workers.
• Create pre-conditions for a trustful and secure learning environment that supports the continuous development of co-workers.
• Secure a healthy and well balanced working environment that enables co-worker engagement, team spirit and togetherness.

You’ll need:

• Academic degree within finance, business administration, economics or similar.
• Deep knowledge about financial planning, accounting, budgeting, forecasting and cost controlling
• Experience from working within business controlling/ navigation in a global environment, preferably having an understanding of the IKEA business model, strategic landscape, IKEA ways of working and value chain.
• Experience working with accounting principles, VAT and tax regulations.
• Experience as manager and leading co-workers and process development.
• Sound knowledge of calculation systems, MS office package and reporting tools.
• Fluency in both verbal and written English.

This is a place where you can focus on doing what you love. There are no dress codes or closed offices. No day is ever the same. All ideas are welcome. Everyone tries to pitch in when needed, and failures are seen as a way of learning. When you enter our building, we want you to feel that you can inspire billions of people all over the world. 

Are you ready to make the world a little better, together? We want to hear from you!

We look forward to receiving your application, in English. Please note that this position is in Älmhult, Sweden. (During the summer vacation, our recruitment process will be a little bit longer, thanks for the understanding)

We do not accept applications by e-mail. If you are one of the candidates we think have the required experience we will contact you by email or phone to plan a telephone interview. In some cases recruitment processes may take time, so we kindly ask you to be patient in this regard.