Arbetsbeskrivning

We are now helping Samsung Nordics' to find a Business Controller to join their team in Kista, Stockholm. This is a temporary, full-time position between 2024-01-01 - 2026-04-30.

Why join the team? A word from the client:

We are a team of 10 Business Control professionals who drive the cost controlling and investment planning at Samsung Electronics. On a daily basis, we liaise with multiple key stakeholders throughout the organization, from VP:s and CFO to Account Managers & various Area Experts such as Product Managers and System Developers. Understanding the big picture is key to deliver smoothness into the company operations.

The main mission for the Business Controller is to support the process of optimizing sales, finding cost efficiency and improving profits. We achieve this mission by controlling the cost related to investment towards market and customers, improving related processes and tools, providing reports and analysis and being spider in the web supporting different stakeholders.

Our current business controller for HA products, i.e refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners etc., plans to go on parental leave, therefore we are looking for a new colleague to support the product division during the next 1.5 year. This role will also support budget and process management for cross-divisional marketing.

What will be your job scope and key deliverables?

As a business controller, you will be working close to business and management, to meet the common goal of improving business performance through optimized commercial structure and investments. You will provide budget controlling and support decision making from business controller’s perspective and ensure that policies and processes are followed.

To be more specific, your main tasks and responsibilities will be:

• For HA division (Home Appliances), control Total Investment to Market (TIM), i.e, contracted and non-contracted investments and marketing, towards the customers and market
• Control marketing investments for cross-divisional marketing
• Provide yearly and mid-term rolling forecasting and monthly/quarterly/yearly closing of TIM cost for HA division and cross-divisional marketing, ensuring sufficient accrual level
• Improve HA business performance through supporting quarterly business planning and follow-up, budget management, business and profit analysis and process guidance
• Support commercial structure decisions and yearly contract process for HA division
• Support cross-divisional marketing tasks, such as reconciliation of media differences, running accruals for marketing closing etc
• Liaise between the sales teams and other back-office functions in maintaining and following up guidelines, policy/process, commercial decisions etc
• Process improvements within Business Control, Sales, Marketing and Accounting with the purpose of sales and profit optimization and efficiency
• Super user of TIM related systems by providing necessary trainings to sales & marketing as well as providing suggestion and requests for system improvement
• Support audit related to TIM cost control process
• Various reporting to management, HQ and EHQ

What do we need for this role?

We are looking for a person who is analytical and accurate, structured, business oriented, and have great communication skills. You are able to see both big picture and detail and can connect different perspectives. You are a fast learner, like to drive efficiency and improvements, and have leadership skills to persuade others for changes.

You will be working with various systems as well as cubes, therefore excellent skills in excel together with interest and understanding of systems and datasets is essential to succeed in this role. Ideally, you have also worked for about 2-5 years with similar responsibilities, holding bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance or accounting.

As a person, you have high sense of responsibility; you do not easily give up, and reliable. You are open minded and flexible, good at working with changing priorities, and solution oriented.

Other beneficial experiences to succeed even further in this position:

• SAP knowledge (or similar ERP systems)
• Working with databases
• Running projects
• Fluent in English and Swedish, knowledge in Nordic languages or Korean is a plus

Samsung is a dynamic company in a fast-moving industry, there are many opportunities to grow and develop! In order to enjoy working with us you must be a person who appreciates tempo, change and to take own initiatives.

About the assignment

For this assignment you will be hired as a full-time consultant by Digitalenta. We offer our consultants a generous package including healthcare allowance, insurance policy, paid vacation days and pension savings. In addition, you'll also have a dedicated consultant manager available throughout your employment with us, in addition to optional networking activities with our network of consultants.