H&M is a world-leading fashion company, with more than 160.000 employees and over 4900 stores in 72 markets and 47 online-markets. H&M Group also includes COS, Weekday, Monki, &Other Stories, ARKET, H&M Home, Afound.

We offer a challenging role with the opportunity to influence the ways of working within global accounting. You will be given a lot of responsibility from day one and you will be working in a team together with experienced colleagues.

The global Finance and Accounting function is responsible for making sure that the H&M Group can handle all business initiatives in a legal compliant way and ensure that all brands and sales-channels are aligned from an accounting perspective. We are responsible for assuring that the financial reporting keeps up with the high pace of the H&M-group. This is an opportunity to join a global organization and a function that works for all brands and sales-channels.

The Corporate Accounting departments main responsibility is to set up and maintain accounting guidelines for the H&M group. It is also a support function for all H&M accounting departments around the world to make sure best practice is applied.

The job of an Accounting Controller comes with lots of responsibility – and lots of fun. Your to do-list includes:

• Work with monthly-, quarterly- and yearly cuts for the Swedish companies within H&M as well as the H&M group to ensure accuracy of the financial reports
• Work with ongoing accounting tasks connected to the main responsibilities of corporate accounting i.e. stock in trade
• Work with our global accounting principles and create accounting routines to be used as instructions for our accounting colleagues around the world.
• Participate in projects that affects the financial reporting
• Align the accounting routines towards the local organizations and make sure that it is correct and legal compliant.

Just like everyone at H&M, we believe you are a sales-minded, social, open, communicative and ambitious team player full of drive and optimism. Your personal qualities also include:

• Degree within Business Administration & Economics (or similar)
• Minimum 3 years of relevant working experience from a similar role
• Experience from working within an accounting/auditing firm is a great advantage
• A genuine interest in working with accounting as well as developing accounting processes
• Strong analytical skills
• Fluent English skills, both in speech and writing
• Strong ability to plan, execute and prioritize
• You are skilled within communication and like to involve yourself in discussions with people from different functions and markets within the company.
• Good MS office skills

If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application, including CV and a Cover Letter in English where you describe your experience by latest Dec 18th 2020.

We look forward to hearing from you!