Financial Analyst

What you'll need to have

• Understanding of Accounting principles and profit and loss statement
• Good understanding of data science, new technologies, analytics, and their wide-ranging application in a business context
• Accomplishes goals, completes tasks, and achieves results
• Develops virtual and other collaborative relationships
• Ability to work independently, take own initiatives and responsibility but also a team-player
• Expresses ideas and opinions effectively in verbal and written communication
• Collaborative mindset: good in building relationships within the organization with the ability to influence others within their own area of expertise by using a clear and simple communication style
• Ability to lift, sit, stand, and walk for a length of shift
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs
• Strong communication skills

Your responsibilities

• Provide unit leadership with scenario plans driven by volume changes, investments, and external influences and identify and proactively pursue business opportunities as they arise
• Participate actively in the creation and implementation of action plans for a unit during the BPL process.
• Coordinate the Goal processes for the unit, establish budgets, and communicate and explain goals.
• Secure the Unit reporting and commentary according to common rules and deadlines.
• Highlight discrepancies between goals and actual results and identify and support in creating and implementing improvement actions, with a secure follow-up.
• Initiate and/or support benchmark activities towards other comparable Units.
• Provide the Unit Manager and Market Area CFF management team with reliable navigation information.
• Have full responsibility for the Unit P&L while supporting and challenging leadership to achieve their goals in these areas.
• Secure the performance measurement and support to improve the performance of KPIs by being close to operations such as organizing workshops for business improvement, benchmark activities etc.
• Facilitate the decision-making process by providing the Unit Manager and Market Area CFF management team with tools, analysis, and/or evaluations of business potentials.

This role supports the business by enhancing customer value, and growth and optimizing long-term business performance for IKEA. As a strategic partner, enabling better business decisions, securing efficiency, and leading in accordance with financial and business strategies. This includes securing (financial) business performance, Operational (KPIs) performance, and a safe and secure environment in compliance with laws, policies, and standards, and processes.

Job Type: Regular, Full Time

Benefits Eligible? YES

Salary: Starts between $84,272 and $125,567