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About the job
We are looking for an experienced professional to join our Global Internal Controls Department at Volvo Construction Equipment. With your broad background in accounting, internal control and process improvement within Finance and Accounting, you will play a key role in strengthening our internal controls over financial reporting, improving quality, reducing risk and increasing the efficiency of producing high‑quality financial statements.
This is an exciting time to join us. We are on a journey to take our internal control environment to the next level: modern, data‑driven and future‑focused. If you are passionate about using new technology and data to make insightful decisions and shape how Internal Controls is done in the years ahead, this could be your next step.
What will you do?
Internal control provides reasonable assurance of the quality and reliability of the Volvo Group's financial information and ensures compliance to the legal requirements related to internal controls over financial reporting, your role will be:
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To ensure compliance with directives and policies, and to create effective conditions for specific control activities in key processes related to financial reporting.
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To provide support for management, allowing them to continuously provide solid internal controls relating to financial reporting.
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To coordinate evaluation activities through the Volvo group's internal control program, with the purpose of systematically evaluating the quality of the internal control over financial reporting on an annual basis.
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To report the results of the evaluation activities to senior level stakeholders.
Your responsibilities include:
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Maintenance of Risk and Controls Matrices (RACM), Risk mapping and Control Documentation.
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Coordination of Volvo Internal Control System (VICS) annual Self-Assessment and control testing within a region.
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Support local management to resolve weaknesses.
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Support management with accounting and control processes and projects to implement best practice, eliminate inefficiencies, and mitigate compliance risk.
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Identification and reporting of Risk to Volvo CE Group internal Control.
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Training and coaching locally on matters of Internal Control, Compliance & Best Practice.
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Influencing stakeholders within the function by clearly explaining relevant facts, policies and practices
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Analyzing and resolving difficult and sometimes complex issues in a structured and effective way
Who are you?
You have a university degree in finance and extensive experience from Financial Reporting and Accounting, as well as Internal Control. Experience from an audit firm at Senior Management / Management level and data analytics is an advantage. You have deep knowledge about Internal Control over Financial Reporting, with experience both from design, implementation and evaluating internal controls.
You have demonstrated well proven leadership and project management skills with a supportive approach, and you are good at building professional networks and relationships. You have the ability to lead in a decentralized global organizational structure and possess a high degree of integrity.
In this role, you will need a strong drive and desire to innovate and develop, and you have previous experience from working in both projects and in process-oriented work. You are careful with details and focus on pragmatic solutions and execution. A proactive can-do attitude and strong analytical and problem-solving skills are valuable. You need to have the ability to communicate effectively, in both written and spoken English and Swedish, to different stakeholder groups.
What can we offer you?
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We offer you the opportunity to work together with highly skilled colleagues in a diverse global environment. There are many opportunities for both personal and professional development across the globe. This is a role that provides you with the opportunity to shape innovative solutions and be a key architect in changing how Internal Controls performs in the future.
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If you have some of the skills described, then we would like to hear from you! Our values are Trust, Passion, Change, Performance and Customer Success. If these values are yours too, you might be the next player in our great team!
Ready for the next move?
Last application date is the 12th of April.
Location: Volvo CEs HQ in Eskilstuna is preferred. Gothenburg is also possible with frequent travel to Eskilstuna.
For further information, please contact
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Robin Wingne, Head of Accounting Volvo CE, +46
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Claire Watkinson, Head of Internal Controls Volvo CE, +46 73 9029138
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Jens Ohlsson, Head of People & Compensation – Support services , +46 73 5585564
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**Who we are and what we believe in **
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
Part of Volvo Group, Volvo Construction Equipment is a global company driven by our purpose to build the world we want to live in. Together we develop and deliver solutions for a cleaner, smarter, and more connected world. By unleashing everyone’s full potential, we build a more sustainable future for all our stakeholders. Come join our team and help us build a better tomorrow.