Business Analyst

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What’s in it for you?
As we are in the journey to strengthen our products, your task is to be Business Analyst in the area of Vendor and Wholesale customer invoicing. This has been our core business for many years and a deep understanding in the business processes and systems solution is necessary to help create, build and nurture the solutions in the area. In this role, you will be the person driving improvements across the board and maximize value by helping to  decide upon priorities in the digital product team’s backlog, from a business perspective to streamline the execution, while maintaining technical integrity of the features/components. 
What you’ll do & responsibilities

Understanding the Volvo car strategies and developing the existing systems landscape to work seamlessly with the new initiatives. 
Working together with various groups within the company to come up with the best possible solutions to suit the need of the company.
Capturing requirements on the product from various stakeholders, e.g. business users and architects 
Understand the accounting consequences of the business for the respective market and coordinate initiatives related to this
Ensuring that the current and developed solutions are fully scalable and fit for future.
Building, prioritizing, deciding and refining the stories in the backlog including defects and enablers
Find and target areas for improvement with a strong focus on automation.
Support during development and sign off UAT
Work with delivery teams to refine processes and solve operational issues
Detecting dependencies with other products

We are looking for people who:
Take accountability, both for their own direct area of responsibility, and the success of the team. Dare being bold, in a thought through way, with integrity, and curiosity as guiding stars.
Focus on our business partners. Have the ability of understanding the local regulations in the markets and can adapt and build solutions to suit the wholistic need. 

To succeed, we believe that your background and skills include:
University degree in Business Administration, IT or Engineering with a minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience in the field of Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay processes, preferably from the Automotive industry 
Extensive SAP knowledge with hands on experience in Order to Cash and Purchase to Pay processes, preferably in the VISA solution.
Understanding of the complete E2E sales flow processes in Volvo Cars, both from an accounting and system perspective.
Experience in developing and implementing strategies and the ability to lead new initiatives.
Develop good relationships with stakeholders and have an understanding of their processes and involvement.
Communicative and customer focused with high level of business acumen 
Change driven with the ability to implement change within the Volvo Cars culture 
Engaged and results oriented with the ability to encourage and influence people
Understanding of the Agile methodologies
Fluent in English, both verbally and written
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

As a person you are user focused and passionate about solving problems. You are flexible, open to new ideas and always looking for ways to improve. You are energetic, have forward thinking and you push for innovation. You are excellent at communication, presenting and relationship building with teams and global stakeholders. You have a holistic viewpoint and being value oriented, with an ability to inspire and motivate others in working towards a goal.
Location - Gothenburg, Sweden.

How to learn more and apply
For questions about the position please contact olga.hansson@volvocars.com or senior tech recruiter Abigail Gonzalez abigail.gonzalez@volvocars.com. Please note that applications via email will not be accepted due to GDPR. We are looking forward to your application!