Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions (SMR) is on an exciting growth journey and we’re now looking for an experienced leader to join us as Accounting Manager – ensuring high quality financial statements and timely reporting.

Joining our experienced and global team of finance and system experts, you’ll gain insights into and exposure to our business and its finance leaders. We welcome you to an open, agile, and action-oriented environment, where we set the bar high and achieve our goals together!

Some words about your workplace
We’re a leading supplier of equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for mining and rock excavation with an ambition to grow and continuously add value across all our businesses – utilizing our global footprint and customer focus. We work in an environment of inclusive collaboration, agility, and innovation where we nurture a growing portfolio of products and solutions based on the needs of the market, and where pioneering software technology meets the core of manufacturing. And last but not least, we’re proud to offer you a workplace where team spirit and work life balance really matter!

What you do
As the Manager of Accounting and Financial Controller, you manage a team of two direct reports and are responsible for all traditional accounting and financial control processes, including accounting, monthly closing, annual reporting, maintaining financial practices and tax. However, the role and expectations go beyond this. You have mandate to set the agenda and roadmap for the function, to design, build, and optimize ways of working, systems, and reporting in close collaboration with the Director of Financial Control and division controllers. You proactively identify and solve the needs of tomorrow and work closely with our financial back-end team to increase automation, accuracy, and efficiency.

The location for this position is the World Trade Center in Stockholm. You will follow a hybrid working schedule and are included in a large-scale global collaboration mainly supported by the digital arena.

Who you are
We’re looking for someone with a bachelor’s or master’s in business, accounting, or economics. And combined with your academic background, you have practical experience as a financial controller, head of accounting, accounting manager or auditor. You have good knowledge of the IFRS standards, consolidation, transfer-pricing and tax and experience from running improvement projects in a global organization. Experience from leading a team is a plus. You also have an interest in the tech-side of things, like data and systems, and beneficial to this role is experience in OneStream and SAP/4Hana. You’re fluent in English, in both written and verbal form.  

You’re curious, sociable, and flexible in nature – skilled in human interactions as well as stakeholder management – and you combine this with excellent analytical abilities. You’re known for balancing independence with teamwork, as a true doer, you prioritize tasks and follow up on our work – making sure we reach timely results with high quality. You have a confident and engaging approach, and you always embrace feedback, new perspectives and sharing knowledge with others.

Our culture

At Sandvik, we’re tech driven, innovative and entrepreneurial. We believe that success is a team effort so we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where people can be themselves and reach their full potential. So, we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our differences. Visit our stories hub, LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us further.

Application

This recruitment has an ongoing selection process, we urge you to send your application as soon as possible, and no later than November 22, 2023. Job ID: R0060810.

As we aim for a fair recruitment process, we utilize assessment tools to safeguard objectivity. When you apply for this job, you will therefore receive an invitation via email to a personality and logic ability test. Feedback comes immediately after the test has been completed and the selection process begins after the application deadline.

Contact Information

For further information about this position, please contact your future manager:
Magnus Dyrendahl, Director of Financial Control – BA SMR, +46 (0)8 451 12 04 or at magnus.dyrendahl@sandvik.com

Union contacts – Sweden
Per Hedman, Unionen, +46 (0)26 26 50 14
Fredrik Andersson, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)26 26 27 18
Linda Adamsson, Ledarna, +46 (0)26 26 16 01

For more information about the recruitment process, please contact HR Services at hrservices.nordic@sandvik.com.  

Recruitment Specialist
Lisbeth Häggström

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2022, sales were approximately 57 billion SEK with about 16,200 employees.