Accounting Specialist to H&M Group

Company Description

Do you want to work in a close-knit team with analysis & delivery of the global H&M Group online accounting and financial reporting?  H&M group continues the rapid expansion within Online Sales and this team is key to that success.

We are committed to leading the change toward a better fashion future. H&M Group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. To continue to meet our customer needs and transform an industry, we need employees with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Finance and Accounting´s vision is to enable H&M Groups growth while ensuring a well-managed company. We are a competent, proactive, and agile business partner. We ensure financial compliance and are running effective and efficient operations through processes that are standardized, centralized and digitalized. We base the execution of our vision by recruiting & developing talented people. 

The AR B2C team is working with the accounting of the order to cash process for all H&M group online sales channels. We are a close and diverse team, both located in Borås and Stockholm, supported by our in-house Shared Service Center in Bangalore. We take responsibility of securing and enhancing our accounting processes in order to stay compliant in the rapid changing digital sales environment. We constantly strive for scalable & automatized solutions which is achieved through cooperation with stakeholders, both internally and externally, from all over the world

Job Description

As an Accounting Specialist within AR, you are responsible for securing the Accounting of the H&M Group global and omni digital sales flows. On top of managing daily operations, a key delivery within the team is a constant focus on driving improvements such as business processes and technical development.

You will provide great knowledge and ideas to H&Ms AR processes and enjoy driving change and process improvements in a complex IT environment.

For this role, we are looking for someone with experience driving and managing process change.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for securing the accounting reporting of H&M Group’s AR B2C global digital sales including all brands and both internal and external sales channels for given processes.
  • Responsible for collaborating and ensuring clear communication with relevant stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Responsible for gathering process specific knowledge and act as subject matter expert
  • Align, support and work together with Business Tech and local country accounting in central initiatives but also function-specific initiatives regarding requirements, scope, solution design, test and post-go live stabilization 
  • Uphold Accounting guidelines for H&M Group’s global digital sales and all related business models
  • Responsible for facilitating financial control within the AR area regarding P&L elements such as transfer pricing sales models and AR related costs

Qualifications

  • University degree within Accounting/Business Admin/Economics or equivalent work experience
  • Minimum 3-5 years of relevant work experience within Accounting/Accounts Receivables/Auditing ideally within a global B2C digital sales environment
  • Experience of SAP ECC (FI-CO/FI-CA/SD/BusinessWarehouse)
  • Analytical ability to conduct GL and P&L analysis, process flows and data outputs in tools such as Excel
  • Experience of problem/change management and process development
  • Experience of RPA and machine learning is beneficial
  • Experience of VAT/tax reporting and transfer pricing business models is beneficial
  • Highly proficient in both spoken and written English

We believe that you are a collaborator and a true team player that likes to coach, support and help others and naturally builds cross functional networks and relationships. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to customize communication to different needs when training, coordinating and leading activities.

Additional Information

This is a permanent position based in either Borås or Stockholm, Sweden.

If you feel that your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application (only CV in English) as soon as possible but latest by 19th June 2023. Interviews will be held on a continuous basis.

We look forward to receiving your application!

At H&M Group we strive to have a fair and inclusive and recruitment process. This is why kindly ask you to not attach Cover Letter in your application as this could cause unintentional subjective assessment. Thank you!

H&M is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.

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