Business Controller E-com to Samsung

We are now helping Samsung Nordics in Stockholm to find their new Business Controller!

Help Us Create What Can’t Be Done

Everything we do at Samsung is driven by an unyielding passion for excellence—and an unfaltering commitment to develop the best products and services on the market. In today’s fast-paced global economy, change is constant, and innovation is critical to a company’s survival. As we have done for 80 years, we set our sights on the future, anticipating market needs and demands so we can steer our company toward long-term success. As Business Controller, you will have an integral part in ensuring we stay on top of the market and continue to enrich and simplify the consumers’ lives.

Why join the team? / A message from the team!

We are a team of 9 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.

We are now looking for a new colleague who will support our D2C department, driving Samsung’s own e-commerce sales directly to our consumers.

What will this role achieve?

As a business controller, you will be working closely to business and management, to meet the common goal of improving business performance through optimized commercial structure and investments. You will support the D2C division with business model analysis, budget controlling, P&L review and process improvements, reaching the common goal of sales and profit targets.

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

• Support e-commerce team in reaching sales and profit goals by identifying and following up on commercial and operational actions
• Detail analysis of the entire P&L accounts including sales, gross margin, TIM (total investment to market), variable costs and fixed costs, reviewing factors affecting the results and identify improvement actions
• Analysis of e-commerce business by channel mix, product mix, pricing and promotion strategy per business model and sellout platforms
• Understand and analyze overall P&L for forecast & target, follow up the progress for sales and profit vs yearly plan, target and actual and identify/escalate risks for deviations from sales and profit targets
• Support e-commerce team in reviewing profitability of new business model
• Be part of e-commerce management team as business partner with expertise in financial results
• Cost operation and analysis
• Cost control, forecast & target and closing TIM (Total investment to market) costs for e-commerce
• Ensure correct accrual for e-commerce costs with focus on TIM, fixed costs and commissions following accounting principles, and review/identify risks for other accounts from accrual perspective
• Super user of TIM related systems by providing necessary trainings to e-commerce team as well as providing suggestion and requests for system improvement
• Ensure compliance of sales and TIM process according to accounting principle and Samsung global policy
• Support audit related questions with focus on sales and TIM process for e-commerce
• Process improvements with the purpose of sales and profit optimization and efficiency
• Various reporting to Nordic, EHQ and HQ related to e-commerce

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 bachelors 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 other 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

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