Finance Director i Stockholm

• Application Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021
• Stockholm

Are you a finance professional with an appetite for more? We are now looking for a Finance Director with experience from an international FMCG company, to join Lantmännen Unibake Sweden. We are a leading global bakery group powered by ambitious people that are truly passionate about delivering the best in everything they do.

This is what you will do
As Finance Director for Unibake Sweden you will be a key business partner in the Swedish management team where you will have responsibility for the finance and IT function. You will lead and manage the finance operations, taking ownership and accountability for P&L, balance sheet, strategic planning, budget, forecasting and other related business processes. Additionally, you will secure financial governance, transparency, reporting and compliance according to the business strategy and to global Unibake standards. Together with your team you will ensure the contribution to the delivery of the short and long business objectives

Lantmännen Unibake is a global player with a broad range of well-established B2B and B2C brands e.g. Korvbrödsbagarn, Bonjour and Hatting. In the position as Finance Director, you are not only part of the Swedish executive management team, but you will also work with Unibake Group CFO at Unibake’s headquarters in Copenhagen. You are expected to work closely to our business and develop relationships and collaboration on both local- and group level.

You will have managerial responsibility of four direct reports, consisting of a Business Controlling Manager, Accounting Manager and IT Specialists. In total, the Finance and IT team consists of 10 people and as a leader we expect you to provide strategic direction and guidance, motivating and inspiring in your team, working towards operational excellence.

This position is located at the Lantmännen head office in Stockholm. Business traveling to our production site in Örebro, where you have part of the finance team, as well as to the head office of Unibake International in Copenhagen is required. You will report to the Country Managing Director and part of the finance community at Unibake International.

This is what you need to succeed:

You have:

• Extensive experience from a similar role as Finance Director, CFO or Head of Business Control, preferably from an international group where you are used to having to take both local and group perspective into consideration.
• Experience from an industrial company, preferably from food production or FMCG with an emphasis and sales, supply chain/production and operations.
• An academic degree within business, finance or another relevant field.
• Extensive leadership experience where you have been leading other managers and finance professionals.
• Preferably worked with organizations in growth, having had exposure to M&As.
• Strong communication skills, written and spoken, in both Swedish and English.

Your “power skills”

• Strongly business oriented with great commercial understanding and insight. You see great value in working close to the business.
• Analytical with a holistic mindset. You solve problems and deliver results through involving and engaging people around you.
• Communicative, great at networking and building relationships across functions and hierarchies.
• A confident and passionate leader who is able to inspire, developing and building talent leading into a world-class organization.
• Convincing, solution-oriented, and driven to get things done. You have the ability to challenge existing ways of working and status quo.

What we offer to you
We are a large international group with diverse activities throughout the entire grain value chain – from the very sprout in the field to the food on our tables. With a wide range of businesses within food, agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and real estate, we offer career opportunities in every direction across industries, countries, companies and areas of expertise.

Sounds interesting?
We hope so! As the screening process is ongoing, we kindly ask you to submit your application as soon as possible but no later than 28th of February 2021.

The recruitment process will include several interviews with talent acquisition, HR, hiring manager and stakeholders, and considering the current situation and everyone's well-being, most of the interviews will be conducted over telephone or video to start with. The process also includes psychometric tests and the final candidate will go through a background check through our supplier ToFindOut.

If you have any questions, please contact Julia Minges, Talent Acquisition Specialist at .

We look forward to hearing from you!