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Your role
We are looking for a business minded individual with strong analytical and communicational skills, who is willing to get involved in and drive improvements within our business and operations at BU Gripen.
As a business controller you will be the focal point and controller in one or several contracts. You will monitor and control financial parts of the contract such as follow-up and analyze, prepare budgets and forecasts, initiate actions to improve financial performance to reach targets. This also includes creating an understanding and acceptance of the financial control and the purpose of these.
In the role you will work closely with Contract Responsible and other team members to understand how changed planning, risks and opportunities, commercial and technical issues affect the financial development. This means to actively participate and contribute to improvements and progress in processes, systems and control within the finance area.
Furthermore, you should be well acquainted with customer agreements, contracts and orders and participate in the preparation of scope changes, renegotiations of the contract and new tenders as well as reports and other documents. You will be responsible for delivering on the financial key targets in the contract and together with the team contribute to the business unit goals and achievements.
Your profile
We are looking for a Business Controller with high communication skills and that should enjoy cooperating with different stakeholders both inside Saab as well as externally with customers. You should have an interest in leading change and be a driver for continuous improvement. To be successful in this position it is important to be proactive, independent and to have an analytic and pedagogical ability to understand and explain economic causation. Together with the team you ensure timely reporting with high quality.
You have a relevant academic degree or post graduate qualification and several years of relevant experience, preferably as a controller. We work in an international environment, to be successful in this position you must be able to communicate fluently in English, both verbally and in writing.
This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.
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Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.