Business Controller

Volvo Group drives prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions, offering trucks, buses, construction equipment, power solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing, and services that increase our customers’ uptime and productivity. We are committed to shaping the future landscape of sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions.

Our solutions to today’s global challenges are driven by our Mission of “Driving prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions” and our Vision “To be the most desired and successful transport and infrastructure solution provider in the world”.

Our Offer To You

Volvo Group offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and team-focused environment in a company that is well known for its state-of-the-art company culture and benefits. Our culture is about how we interact with each other, our customers, and with society as a whole. It helps us to achieve our business objectives, is firmly rooted in our history, and is critical to our company’s long-term success. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

Volvo Group is defined by a set of five carefully chosen values, which include Customer Success, Trust, Passion, Change, and Performance. These values are a major force in guiding our day-to-day behavior and drive our decision making at all levels of the organization. Our values are easy to understand, and yet fundamentally important. They express our shared beliefs across countries and entities to form the basis for a high-performing culture that can help maximize the full potential of the organization.

To work with us is to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, and to be part of a reputation that has been earned for over a century. It is our responsibility to honor that heritage and build an even stronger future for our company moving forward. Each of our individual actions collectively define who we are as a company and how the world sees us.

Would you like to be a part of our team and join us on our journey?

What You Will Be Doing

The Controlling & Product Finance organization is an important function to secure long-term profitability within the truck division. The Business Controller will be a part of a high performing North America finance team based in Greensboro, NC and Hagerstown, MD. The finance team’s scope includes business controlling, project controlling, and finance project management. You will be doing this in cooperation with global business functions and ensure both local and global deliveries. This position will report to the North America Manager Project & Business Control, and will be based out of our Greensboro, NC campus location.

Key Activities and Responsibilities:

• Quality ensure a timely monthly closing
• Work proactively with Forecast/Budgeting in support of direction setting and needed actions to reach set targets
• Secure the Investments process for CAPEX, planning, approval, follow up, and quality assure business decision material
• Payment plan & Project/Stream Cost analysis. Analysis to be assessed and updated in support of the business decisions in committees and councils
• Ensure financial processes & procedures are being adhered to in terms of proactive assessment, evaluation of key controls and audit support, including issue resolution
• Active management team participation, drive team understanding of financial impact from decisions and direction taken
• Project Portfolio financial management
• Active resource balancing analysis with local and global resources
• Ad hoc analysis

What We Are Looking For

• 2 - 5 years of finance experience, inclusive of knowledge in accounting
• SAP experience is required
• Experience within Power BI is an advantage, but not required
• Developed prioritization and organization skills
• Effective communicator and collaborator
• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or similar field

Compensation/Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Company bonus
• Comprehensive health benefits
• 401(K) with company match, as well as additional automatic company contribution
• Culture with a passion for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for all
• Aggressive approach to Sustainability
• Flexible work environment
• 5 - 6 weeks of annual vacation
• Global organization with expansive career growth opportunities
• Volvo Group University for professional and personal development
• Workplace health/wellness, and reimbursement programs
• Would you like to dig deeper into some of the above topics? We invite you to continue your exploratory journey here!