Financial Retail Controller

2 weeks ago

Boksburg, South Africa Volvo Group Full time

South Africa

**Position Description**

If you would like to join an exciting and challenging position as a member of the Southern Africa Volvo Group Business Control team, then this may be the position for you

We’re looking for someone who loves to work with people and Change Management. You will be responsible for consolidating 12 Volvo owned dealers financial reporting and estimation. You will have a key role in driving and tracking financial performance as we aim to extend and grow the business. It is a super interesting role for you to make a positive impact in. This is a fast paced environment and demands structure, organization and managing of many tasks in our end customer environment

**The main purpose of the job** is to manage closing and estimate. You are operational in this role and can provide detailed controlling reports. You act as a business partner and co-driver to the business. You have the ability to connect the financial reporting to our estimate process as this is an important task in order to drive progress. The main contributor to this is to align 12 dealers into a structured way of working where we are currently undergoing a big change management organizational structural change. Your co-driver is Strategy Retail Controller and the 12 branch managers. You also work closely together with the Director Retail.

**Reporting**: This position will report to the CFO.

**Job Objectives**:

- Drive and manage understanding of the full Retail Network in Closing and Estimate activities.
- Implement a new way of working that aligns with our future Financial goals and the exciting future of Electromobility.
- To drive and secure Volvo Group way of working within Business Control. This also entails to clean out any other tasks not Business Control related.
- You are experienced in indirect leadership which will drive success in implementation of new activities in line with Volvo Group Values.
- Actively propose and drive the support of improvements of all controlling related revenue and expense reporting, ensuring proactive control, accuracy, predictability and timely delivery of results, analysis and forecasts.
- This role requires knowledge of SAP general ledger accounting, however, follow up is done in pre-systems GDS Fusion, SAP, Essbase and planning tool Hyperion.
- Be a business partner and contribute to continous improvement.
- Provide financial information to stakeholders according to set deadlines.
- Liase with other Finance colleagues for decision making, analysis, reporting and consolidation.
- This role requires travel to the dealers in the network in South Africa.
- No direct staff reporting, but collaboration with the 12 dealers for their explanations and input is required.
- Change management and structural implementations to align with Volvo Group of reporting financials.

**As a successful Finance Retail Manager you will**:

- Perform current work.
- Develop the work.
- Develop yourself.
- Develop the team.

We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusiveness to make us a stronger and better organization. The motivation and passion to support our customers set us apart from others that want to be like us. Our company culture is how we interact with each other, with our customers and society as a whole. It is the foundation on which everything else is built. We embrace new ideas and constantly challenge the status quo - innovation is driven by a willingness to change to stay ahead and find smart ways to create new solutions. The role may require rotation of work tasks to keep us updated.

**Qualification**:

- Min Bachelor (or higher degree) in Business Administration, Finance and Economics or similar is required.
- Qualified Accountant is an advantage.

**Job Related Experience**:

- Minimum 5 years of Financial and/or Management accounting experience.
- Proven experience in a retail finance role in a similar sized international organisation would be preferable.
- Experience of Change management is an advantage.

**Competency Requirements**
- ** Interpersonal skills** - team player with excellent communication skills who is able to work with various departments across the organization.
- ** Quality** - driven by service and continuous improvement mind-set to enhance the quality of deliverables in terms of accuracy, timeliness and in accordance with policies, guidelines and best practices.
- ** Agility **- the ability to prioritize, monitor and control operations in a climate of change and to work under pressure.
- ** Initiative and responsibility** - ability to work on own initiatives and to act pro-actively by identifying opportunities and driving change.
- ** IT skills** - an interest for IT, strong systems skills and experience as well as knowledge of SAP, Microsoft Office especially Excel, etc. Smart view knowledge is a plus.
- ** Analytical thinking** - ability to understand, structure and think through implementable solutions to business-related problems. Interp

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