Business Controller Portfolio

**Company Description**
At H&M Group, we are here to inspire people around the world to express their personality through fashion and design by making a more sustainable lifestyle exciting and accessible for everyone - regardless of style or budget. To get there, we have set the 2030 Goals for People, Planet and Growth, ensuring that we can continue leading our industry towards a sustainable future and creating long-term profitable growth.

In the coming years we focus on elevating the full H&M experience in the eyes of the consumers through Product, Experience and Brand, guided by our Brand Plan. Do you want to be part of making us succeed?

As a Business Controller Portfolio,. You work with the expansion strategy and portfolio management for the region. You create methods for budgeting, building up P&Ls and sales forecasting. You perform analysis for the region and support in strategic plans. You support and give insights to the regional team and sales markets through collaboration and stakeholder management. You drive improvements and actions in processes, methods and tools. You support all markets and brands within the region. Your main responsibilities include:

- You perform analysis in order to support in expansion strategy and portfolio management, such as analysis of cannibalization, sales transfer, omni development, club data customer insights, cost developments.
- You create, utilize and continuously update benchmark data for budgeting and forecasting purposes.
- You prepare ad-hoc analysis and business cases to evaluate current and future business opportunities.
- You analyse and secure that rents and data are accurate in systems and tools.
- You analyse the portfolio and forecast development.
- You build and support in strategic plans such as GPB, roadmap, consolidation plans, capex plans, negotiation strategy.
- You have high level understanding how to analyse and visualize data in excel and power BI.
- Together with the regional team you are responsible for the strategy for the growth, consolidations, negotiations and portfolio management.
- You support the expansion managers and lease managers with data analysis to improve the portfolio financially and commercially.
- You create tools and support with analysis and targets setting for projects and negotiations.
- You analyse the portfolio to identify key success factors, targets and areas of opportunity.
- Support all local Expansion functions in setting clear strategies and goals.
- Translate regional strategies and set tangible goals and targets for your market.
- Secure the financial transparency on the highest level and that each team member is aware of its responsibilities and approval rights.
- You work in close collaboration with the Regional Expansion controlling team and sales market Leasing and C&F functions.
- You support the Region and Group Expansion in the development of analysis methods, BI tools, LIMA functionality and reports.
- Support the sales market expansion manager with analysis and business case preparation.
- Support the sales market C&F manager with budgets, forecasts, follow-up and analysis.

**Qualifications**
Education
- Degree in business administration or engineering

Skills And Experience
- Knowledge about common accounting principles.
- Advanced level in Power BI, MS Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Can understand, read, speak and write English at an advanced level.
- VBA or similar competence beneficial.
- Extensive skills in and good understanding of working with analysis tools such as excel, PBI or similar.
- Good teamwork and collaborative ability.
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience.
- Experience form working in controlling, preferably within the retail sector.
- Experience from preparing and presenting financial reporting to Senior Management and other stakeholders

**Additional Information**
his is a permanent position based in Barcelona, Spain and we offer a local contract.