Deputy Business Operations Controller

WHO YOU ARE
- Background in Business/Finance/Economics or related.
- Being ready to lead and develop people - ideally you have led people before.
- Good experience in a Controlling environment or similar.
- Fluent in English and preferably also German skills.
- Interest in home furnishing and understanding of IKEA values and what it means for people´s everyday life at home.
- Acting as a strategic business partner, with analytical skills able to translate business needs into financial consequences and solutions - with a high affinity for numbers.
- Strong sense of urgency and result orientation.
- Having the ambition to grow and develop in this role.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- To navigate the growth of IKEA and steer the business towards sustained long term profitability, including securing financial business performance and compliance with policies and standards.
- Having the full understanding of the Profit & Loss for the Unit and steer actions to provide an unit in shape as new, reducing costs and considering all impact on the Profit & Lost. Follow up the result and create forecasts and (if needed) activate scenario plans.
- Optimize and develop the unit results and performance continuously by implementing best practices, using close the gap to identify opportunities and follow-up benchmarks KPIs.
- Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promoting standardised reporting and securing competence in the organisation to allow for analysis and understanding of performance to make optimal business decisions.
- Secure that all investments are done with a proper analysis or business return on investment considering all aspect of the different projects.
- Lead and develop leaders and teams in the areas of responsibility of the Business Navigation function. Identify and develop talents and secure succession planning.

TOGETHER AS A TEAM

We’re the team behind the scenes that make the IKEA products available to the many people. As a diverse mix of co-workers we use our supply process expertise to balance range and space capacity with forecasting and ordering to provide customers with high availability while minimizing costs. If you’ve wonder who’s responsible for finding effective and efficient ways of picking up the products for our customers, that’s us. We’re passionate about working together to improve the customer experience at IKEA

After a first selection we will contact you and - in a positive case - discuss the next steps with you.

MORE THAN AJOB

At IKEA we pay fixed monthly salaries. This means that no matter if you take a vacation or reduce overtime, your salary remains the same.

There are many ways to say "thank you." IKEA's extra benefits for you are one of them

In addition to a 15% employee discount on your purchases at IKEA, you benefit from attractive social benefits, 28 vacation days, eight weeks of parental leave, contributions to public transportation or free parking, discounted meals and the IKEA bonus system.