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Core Role & Positioning: As a collaborative partner for all departments in Norway, this role is responsible for aligning and executing Sales, Marketing, after sales departments for the procurement and payment process. The objective is to ensure end-to-end compliance and efficient operation procurement and payments while providing business analysis and driving business decisions through data insights. Specific Responsibilities: 1. End-to-End Operational Support & Optimization: Fully manage the end-to-end process—from procurement and request submission to payment—across various departments in the Norway. This covers agency commission rebates, VME (Variable/Vendor Marketing Expenses) payments and spending, Marketing budget tracking, after-sales billing submission and tracking, various bidding and procurement projects. Lead system submissions and progress tracking from budget initiation and procurement execution to final payment, ensuring a closed-loop process. 2. Compliance Control & Risk Prevention: Establish and improve internal control mechanisms for processes, and supervise and review end-to-end compliance. Promptly identify and proactively address potential business risks, while continuously iterating and optimizing existing processes based on business pain points. 3. Business Data Analysis & Enablement: Deeply mine and integrate data accumulated throughout the procurement and expense processes. Regularly produce business analysis reports to provide data support for adjusting business operation strategies and optimizing resource allocation. 4. Budget Tracking & Market Dynamic Monitoring: Conduct refined tracking and early warning of budget spending rates and utilization efficiency across Southern Europe Region projects. Follow up on expected receivables and payables information to assist in budget planning. 5. Cross-Departmental Collaboration & HQ Interface: Align information flows between Southern Europe Region & Headquarters (HQ) to ensure strategic consistency. Coordinate and resolve various operational support issues encountered by front-line teams.
Job Requirements - Bachelor’s degree or above; Majors in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related fields are preferred. - Strong data analysis skills; ability to generate valuable business analysis reports through data mining to support decision optimization. - Familiarity with internal controls, compliance management, and risk prevention mechanisms; Experience in process optimization or establishing internal control systems is an advantage. - Knowledge of marketing expense management, agency commission settlement, and tendering/bidding processes is preferred. - Fluent in English and Norwegian, capable of using both as working languages for written and verbal communication. - Cross-departmental collaboration: Ability to effectively coordinate information alignment between regional front-line teams and headquarters, and drive problem resolution. - Detail-oriented and compliance-conscious: Attentive to process details with strong capabilities in risk identification and compliance management. - Self-driven and capable of multitasking: Able to maintain high productivity in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment; proactive in identifying business pain points and driving improvements. - Communication and influence: Strong cross-cultural communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively with team members from diverse backgrounds.
