Business Controller (Data Analyst) - Costing & Capacity

Job Description

As a Business Controller, you will work closely with the controlling community in H&M Production, Country, Value stream team to optimize the data flows, enhance costing tools and processes to meet our profitability targets. 

You utilize the automated and AI data, you bring strategic, data driven insights to functional vision and key results that will improve business results within areas such as Costing, Capacity, Material and Component. Your contributions serve to strengthen our role as a responsible buyer and a leader in transforming the fashion industry. 

You co-drive impactful actions, projects as well as roadmap for all the focus areas connect to Production Focus, setting connected requirements and framework, modules, tools, systems to deliver the cross-functional efficiency throughout our end-to-end supply chain

Key responsibilities & tasks will include: 

• Apply advanced analytics and tools to model, execute and follow up the costing analytics.
• Use SQL and potentially further programming languages to gather, clean and prepare data for analysis.  
• Implement automation for calculations and regular data updates.
• Identify and resolve the technical issues to ensure the reliability of tools and reports.
• Be the go-to person for data and analytics knowledge, maintain the tools and provide the training for the users.
• Be an agile enabler to support the cross-functional coordination in regard to methodology, functional requirements as well as seamless system

Qualifications

To succeed as a Business Controller, you conduct proactive data analysis, enabling business teams to make decisions and challenge the status quo. You use technology and adopt new ways of working to enable business success across the controlling and production community. You are a strong communicator and collaborate beyond your immediate team. You act as an informal leader by being a role model of H&M Group Leadership expectation. 

What you need to succeed: 

• At least 2 years of experience as a Data Analysts or similar. 

• Have a degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Data Analyst or similar.

• Have advanced knowledge in Excel VBA, Power BI or other Data Visualization tools. 

• Work independently and take own initiatives.  

• Have creative analytical skills and is good at prioritizing. 

• Have a strategic mind and is good at identifying new opportunities. 

• Have experience from informal leadership in a global environment. 

Additional Information

This is a full-time position. If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please apply by sending your CVs.

Benefits  

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.  

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.  

Inclusion & Diversity  

H&M Brand is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.  

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.  

Company Description 

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M Here. 

What is Production? It's the place where design ideas are transformed into actual products. We are in over 20 sourcing markets and are the direct point of contact for local suppliers. We work to ensure our products are of good quality and produced at the best price and in a sustainable way.