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Volvo Car UK Finance - let’s introduce ourselves:
Our purpose: Through business partnering and the use of digital tools, we are steering performance, championing compliance, and ensuring sustainable growth.
The Finance team at Volvo Car UK is a business partnering focus department responsible for a) Accounting, statutory reporting, tax, internal control, and procurement. b) Financial planning and analysis, management reporting, business planning and forecasting future scenarios. c) Improve performance, through business partnering support to all operational parts of Volvo Car UK. We are a diverse team of around 13 members, highly engaged, and on a mission to enable great business partnering support.
What you’ll do:
The purpose of the Data analyst is to provide data and insights support to the entire Finance department of Volvo Car UK and the wider organization, as well as liaise with our Digital department. The role will develop the functionally needed for Finance to be an agile and data driven team, using the latest digital tools and avoiding manual reporting process to the highest extent possible. This role involves a high degree of interaction with the Finance team and VCUK departments whilst requiring consistently high-quality strategic analysis and data management. Pro-actively search opportunities and make strategic plans to mitigate risk and avoid pitfalls in the area. Actively work to deliver goals and sustainable growth.
- Own month end reporting and dashboard development for key P&L areas
- Provide self-service Power BI dashboards to Finance Business Partners and be a key contact for any dashboard related queries
- Support Finance Business Partners in tracking the performance of strategic initiatives
- Map new data and reporting requirements that the Finance team will need as we transform from wholesale to a DTC business model. E.g., new inventory reports, FCA reporting, and total distribution cost.
- Get involved with ad-hoc Analytics requirements or projects
- Create efficiencies by automating as many reports as possible
- Liaise closely with Digital department at VCUK as well as Headquarters digital and central commercial finance functions
What you‘ll bring:
We believe you are an analyst with some years of experience with measuring data. You have an interest to bring data together from multiple channels to derive insights and learnings.
Further, you are able to use data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI to bring the data to life.
You also have:
- Ability to understand large data patterns, decipher what the underlying drivers are, and an ability to move data into insights
- In collaboration with Finance Business Partners – aspire to move from delivering insights to foresight
- Experience in building dashboards, identifying new and tracking key metrics to closely monitor performance and identifying quick and long-term opportunities for improvements
- Demonstrated experience and ability to present and persuade complicated findings in a clear and concise manner to stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience and interest in building something new, not just maintaining existing processes
- Good understanding of accounting and finance concepts, principles, and processes
- Highly proficient with numbers
- University degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or equivalent area
We’re looking for you!
You are curious by nature and excited about improving a business that is new and evolving. You are results-driven and enjoy analyzing large amounts of data to prove achievement rates. Some of your core skills are being digitally savvy and prioritizing what is most important for the business combined with high attention to detail. You are a highly experienced communicator who builds networks across the business and values listening to different stakeholders to constantly learn and develop.
We are looking for you who enjoy collaboration and take accountability, as the ability to work within teams is key for growth. Dare to be bold, in a thought-through way, with integrity, and bringing business insights.
Benefits & Life at Volvo Car UK:
- £36,000- £40,000 DOE. Attractive salaries that are reviewed and benchmarked annually
- Discretionary, performance related bonus scheme that rewards you whilst you support us to achieve our goals
- Hybrid working in our agile, new offices or from home when convenient for you and your family
- Everyday flexible working Monday-Friday, 7am-7pm depending on business needs
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (4 fixed & 4 unfixed) + the opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days
- 15 days’ work from anywhere in the world policy
- 24 weeks enhanced and flexible parental leave for all employees regardless of gender up to a child’s 3rd birthday
- Matched pension contribution up to 5%
- Wellbeing benefits such as Health Cash Plan, Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
- 2 paid volunteering / charity days per year
- Access to our preferential employee lease car scheme for you and your family
- Subsidised onsite restaurant plus free refreshments and snacks
- Onsite electrical charging for your Plug-In Hybrid Electric or Battery Electric vehicle.
- A set salary sacrifice spend limit, refreshed every tax year for you to choose from multiple services and products to suit your lifestyle whilst saving on tax and NI within our extensive flexible benefits platform
- Discounted shopping site with 100s of brands and online retailers
Diversify our future:
Volvo Cars is an equal opportunities employer. We are a company for people who care about other people and for the world we live in. We celebrate diversity and inclusion in the workplace and are committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and employment practices, including hiring, recruiting, and promotion. It’s what you do that counts and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future. With us, you can truly be yourself, embrace new opportunities, thrive and a make a difference.
Want to know more?
We’d like to receive and review your application by Monday 10th April 2023. Any CVs or applications sent via email will not be kept or considered, please apply via the link in this ad. Please note that your application has been received once you get a confirmation e-mail from the system. We will do our best to keep you updated throughout the process. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Senior Recruiter: Maria Nilzon at [email protected]
We are Volvo Cars!
Volvo Cars’ continued growth is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your expertise and aspirations so you can reach your full potential.
For the right person, an inspiring, and creative workplace awaits. Did you know that every Volvo Cars employee worldwide has the right to our Family Bond, our new all-gender, paid parental leave policy? You’ll also enjoy a culture and benefits package that’s made us one of the world’s most awarded and progressive employers.
By 2025, we aim to sell 1.2 million cars annually, 50% of which will be electric vehicles and sold directly to customers through digital channels. Join us on the journey of a lifetime as we create the driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.
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