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WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE
- You ae energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people.
- You have minimum of 5 years’ experience working with both commercial and financial processes, particularly retail pricing.
- You are a strategic, tactical and operational business partner who is highly capable to translate external trends into business opportunities and completely
understands the importance to build a strong connection with the everyday lives of the many people.
- You are motivated to share and live the IKEA culture and values and can effectively manage an ever-changing environment with many different stakeholders and
competing demands.
- You are an approachable, trustworthy and a strong communicator leader who develops and promote lean, simple and effective ways of working.
- You are assertive and self-reliant with a proven aptitude to structure, prioritize and delegate work to make things happen through fostering togetherness and
leading by example.
A DAY IN YOUR LIFE WITH US
- Provide the unit management with information, analysis and expert insight to support challenges and steer the business towards growth, optimal performance
and sustained long-term profitability.
- Support and encourage fellow coworkers to use business cases when identifying, evaluating and acting on business opportunities as they arise to secure a strong
retail foundation and expand our existing base.
- Work closely with stakeholders to analyse and evaluate benefits, costs and investments ensuring a good return on investment and qualitative business cases.
- Navigate towards more effective and cost-conscious ways of working, identifying growth and cost potentials through benchmarking, striving for constant
improvements and closing the performance gap.
- Support the unit and specifically staff planning and operations with business navigation competence enabling them to make optimised decisions in their
everyday work.
- Contribute to the financial business planning process by ensuring that the financial plan is aligned with the BPL priorities and make sure the rules, IKEA group
risk manual guidelines and country legislation are implemented and monitored.
- Lead and co-ordinate the financial follow-up and forecasting process in the unit, in line with the global business navigation year cycle.
- Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promoting standardised reporting and ensure succession planning for all key roles.
- Use a multidimensional approach, all the information and tools available to maximize productivity and efficiency and enable a better life at home.
ABOUT THIS WORK AREA
We see ourselves as influencers - we steer the IKEA business by finding the truth behind the figures. Together we secure compliance with local and international laws and reporting standards; we assure that accounting processes are efficient and that tax compliance meets business needs. We’re a diverse group of people driven by providing reliable financial data to a wide variety of stakeholders. At the end of the day, that’s one of the foundations to make IKEA even better!
JUST SO YOU KNOW
In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as Business Navigator.
Please note: This position requires the submission of a satisfactory criminal record check. A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position.