Total 18 job vacancies by Ikano-Retail

Your assignment
• Make the IKEA range compliant and sellable in the Philippines
• Lead contact with Philippine authorities to make the IKEA range available in all sales channels
• Support Sales function and report new market regulations to IKEA of SWEDEN
• Ensure that PH standards and labelling requirements are fulfilled
• Secure the company’s License to Operate with the Food and Drug Administration & other
regulatory bodies like DENR, NPQS

About the job

Reporting to the Customer Care Centre Team Leader, this AGENT role is responsible to build and retain a long-lasting relationship with new and existing customers in a multi-channel retail environment by valuing and fulfilling customer needs and expectations, understanding customer motivation and expectations, and ensuring a positive shopping experience that creates trust in the IKEA Brand. Among other tasks, this involves experience in customer handling to ensure the satisfaction of the customers who contact us directly through the contact centre in all media platforms.

Your assignment

• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying the customers’ needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions.
• You take ownership for resolving your customer’s individual needs; communicating a realistic timeline for this resolution and keeping them informed as promised.
• You understand the impact of service time responses on the customers’ level of satisfaction and work both individually and with your colleagues to ensure that you match your agreed service levels.
• You have a good knowledge of store operations to offer appropriate solutions to the customers, giving advice on add-on sales, thereby encouraging them to buy more.
• You are listening to your customers and anticipating their needs, promoting IKEA products and services to improve their home-to-home shopping experience.
• You actively seek feedback and give feedback constructively to your colleagues in order to improve the shopping experience of all customers.
• You will be providing support and assistance to Singapore customers and ensuring best customer experience with IKEA tone of voice.
• You are available to help and support co-workers in your own department and other areas of the contact centre when your manager needs me to do so.
• You ensure our contact centre is always a safe and secure environment for visitors and co-workers.
• You take a keen interest in the performance of IKEA and keep yourself informed about results and look for more effective ways of working to reduce costs.
• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying their needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions. This allows your customers to make informed choices which leads to sales growth and profitability.
• You have ownership for resolving your customer’s individual concerns; communicating a realistic timeline for the resolution of such concerns and keeping them informed as promised.
• You are empathetic and understand when your customers are angry and upset by their shopping experience. You remain calm and helpful, offering solutions to ensure they are satisfied with the overall service level and be able to maintain our relationship with them.
• You encourage customers to give feedback which you use to improve your services to them and share with your manager to improve how the centre operates.

The purpose of the job is to ensure customer experience online, and in terms of content responsible for the ongoing management of the IKEA country websites and mobile applications, for maintaining their editorial style and tone, their quality and consistency and their navigation structure. All this to optimize the web as a vital and effective channel. This is done by ensuring a well-maintained website, with accurate and up to date content for our visitors.

Maintain the IKEA website and mobile applications by coordinating ongoing content changes, internal search optimization and translation work, securing information accuracy and consistency and ensuring that changes are made on time; all this to secure that it is inshape as new every day.

• Ensure that all ‘in life’ content is built to brand guidelines, reflects the IKEA brand values,copy and visual identity, tone of voice and quality standards and through this contribute toan optimal digital consumer decision journey.
• Plan the style and relevance of copy required and the frequency with which it will needupdating; create schedules, agree and follow-up on deadlines.
• Ensure the copy on the IKEA country website translated from global content is accurate andof high creative quality, creative guidelines and search keyword strategies by the SEOexternal agency is applied and the IKEA tone of voice is met.
• Ensure that all editorial areas of the IKEA website and mobile applications, e.g. PR, HR,Sustainability, Customer Relations, Sales and E-Commerce have vibrant and up to datecontent throughout the year.
• Partner with functions (e.g. PR, marketing team, customer relations) across the organizationto define and develop relevant local content in order to optimize web content and functionality.
• Support and take full ownership of planning and project management for web contentprojects and campaigns in the Commercial Calendar.
• Work in close relationship with the Web Merchandiser to secure commerciality online.
• Stay up to date with the latest tools, applications and way of working in the IKEA Retailpackage and ensure to stay up to date with latest information on KUNSKAP (or equivalentinformation portal).

To ensure the creation of an unforgettable and rewarding experience (including services) across all channels and all customer journeys, so that customers will want to come again and again. To secure that the customer is at the centre of all key decision-making processes and that an excellent customer satisfaction is delivered and value for the customers is created.

Act as a member of the Country Management Team and proactively contribute to IKEA business plan, commercial plan and commercial calendar process. Lead the facilitation of a seamless shopping experience across channels to enable for extraordinary growth.

• Secure that the customer is at the centre of all strategies, decisions making, solutions, meeting the customer experience steps.
• Provide the front-line business operations with expertise, so that the customer is taken care of with quality and speed, across all journeys where needed.
• Responsible for country localisation in SOP which need to be aligned with IKEA Retail to secure consistency and compliance.
• Support the store audits (internal & external) Support and align any store / country operational issues including systems. Act as country super user to support store and end users.
• Follow up and identify continuous improvements to the customer experience journey, to deliver an excellent customer satisfaction, and maximize conversion in all touchpoints.
• Actively monitor customer satisfaction & sentiment in the country, markets, customer care center and CMPs; identify together with the respective leaders’ action plans to tackle root causes for dissatisfaction.
• Create collaboration across the country between customer care centers, stores and service partners on achieving operational excellence from a customer perspective (deliver IKEA's customer promises).
• Work across the organisation in customer journey improvement and development in close cooperation with IKEA Retail functions, leveraging on central solutions and initiatives.
• Pro-actively liaise with key stakeholders to secure the right prioritisation, localisation for IKEA Retail to support delivery of tools/systems. Work with IKEA retail stakeholders to align new process and system design before development takes place.
• Work closely with Expansion, cross functions for planning, IR2, work orders, operations flow and all that is needed for new stores and SISAN.

Accountable for Advertising (Offline and Display Banners):

• Ensure the development and successful implementation of advertising campaigns as per the commercial calendar and any other locally relevant opportunities in addition to the commercial calendar.
• Final approver for all country media plans and marketing communication work. • Work closely with other SO functions and Markets in the development of each launch/campaign.
• Secure that the overall advertising budget for the country is achieved and ensure appropriate evaluation to measure tangible metrics associated with budget and performance that delivers on marketing investments.
• Responsible for creative and media agencies country level briefing, relationship management, delivery and reporting. Understand the differences in channel mix to provide better brand engagement.

Accountable for (Commercial) Public Relations: 

• Lead the development of PR strategy that supports the overall communication strategy direction and oversee that all country PR actions (e.g. interviews, media launches, press conference, etc) are implemented successfully.
• Manage PR agency, their KPIs and deliverables. Secure brand leadership in media value and share of voice results in country PR.
• In situations where the IKEA brand is involved in negative media attention, assist the work done within IKEA in the country team to secure that all media coverage is managed to protect the IKEA brand and reputation.
• Support corporate communications in the execution of crisis plans in the country (including products that are of fault and might cause damage to customers, incidents where a product has caused damage to customers, etc.).

Accountable for a successful catalogue/brochure production & distribution:

• Oversee the development, execution and final completion of catalogue for the country, including surveys/research, mailing services, etc.
• Plan and ensure implementation of the country distribution strategy is completed successfully

Responsible for the development of Loyalty Communications and programme updates

• Manage the development of loyalty communications calendar/brief as a base, to develop communications materials for IKEA FAMILY and småles members.
• Ensure red thread with the communication platforms (e.g. Ads, Digital, etc.) in line with launch and campaign themes.
• Manage and ensure that IKEA FAMILY and Smales strategy are supported with communications that helps strengthen members’ affinity to the IKEA brand and drive further member engagement.
• Monitor the Loyalty programme is running smoothly for the country, e.g. systems fixes up to date, CRM system supports running business, merchandise and comms for Smales are attractive, etc.

Responsible for External Partner Collaborations and Loyalty Programme Partnerships:

• Lead, review and approve collaboration initiatives to include sponsorship and promotions (except those that overlaps into Sustainability department’s jurisdiction, such as donations and charities).
• Negotiate with partners for win-win collaboration for both commercial goals and for the purpose of enhancing the IKEA brand.
• Lead and liaise with relevant interval stakeholders such as the marketing team, Sales, Com-in, stores or sustainability if the collaboration involves them.

Responsible for other tasks including Market Intelligence coordination, Budgets, etc.

• Main co-ordinator of Market Intelligence research initiated by Systems on country level. Thereafter, to work closely with Local Marketing and Communications Manager to maximise opportunities at the PMA level as needed to externally communicate commercial offers and activities in the market.
• Responsible for accurate budgeting and monthly/annual tracking of expenditure, marketing theme booklet development and updates, post mortem reports, and priorities to the various commercial goals against visitor and sales targets and objectives.
• Working through SO functions, responsible for strategizing, coordination, creation, management and execution of the country commercial calendar.
• Secure consolidated post mortem documents from various agencies for campaigns and update on country marketing post mortem reports to commercial activities team.
• Work on other tasks and projects as assigned that will contribute to the development of IKEA retail operations (i.e. global, regional, country or local initiatives).

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Record import related transactions/invoices in accounting system and reconcile with payments and bank statements.
• Liaise with banks and vendors on payment related enquires
• Reconciliation of GL accounts, vendor balances and archive Accounting documents
• Assist in recording of journal entries in the accounting system and support in general accounting functions and tax reporting requirements
• Other ad hoc task as assigned

About the job

Reporting to the Customer Care Centre Team Leader, this AGENT role is responsible to build and retain a long-lasting relationship with new and existing customers in a multi-channel retail environment by valuing and fulfilling customer needs and expectations, understanding customer motivation and expectations, and ensuring a positive shopping experience that creates trust in the IKEA Brand. Among other tasks, this involves experience in customer handling to ensure the satisfaction of the customers who contact us directly through the contact centre in all media platforms.

Your assignment

• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying the customers’ needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions.
• You take ownership for resolving your customer’s individual needs; communicating a realistic timeline for this resolution and keeping them informed as promised.
• You understand the impact of service time responses on the customers’ level of satisfaction and work both individually and with your colleagues to ensure that you match your agreed service levels.
• You have a good knowledge of store operations to offer appropriate solutions to the customers, giving advice on add-on sales, thereby encouraging them to buy more.
• You are listening to your customers and anticipating their needs, promoting IKEA products and services to improve their home-to-home shopping experience.
• You actively seek feedback and give feedback constructively to your colleagues in order to improve the shopping experience of all customers.
• You will be providing support and assistance to Singapore customers and ensuring best customer experience with IKEA tone of voice.
• You are available to help and support co-workers in your own department and other areas of the contact centre when your manager needs me to do so.
• You ensure our contact centre is always a safe and secure environment for visitors and co-workers.
• You take a keen interest in the performance of IKEA and keep yourself informed about results and look for more effective ways of working to reduce costs.
• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying their needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions. This allows your customers to make informed choices which leads to sales growth and profitability.
• You have ownership for resolving your customer’s individual concerns; communicating a realistic timeline for the resolution of such concerns and keeping them informed as promised.
• You are empathetic and understand when your customers are angry and upset by their shopping experience. You remain calm and helpful, offering solutions to ensure they are satisfied with the overall service level and be able to maintain our relationship with them.
• You encourage customers to give feedback which you use to improve your services to them and share with your manager to improve how the centre operates.

About the job

Reporting to the Customer Care Centre Team Leader, this AGENT role is responsible to build and retain a long-lasting relationship with new and existing customers in a multi-channel retail environment by valuing and fulfilling customer needs and expectations, understanding customer motivation and expectations, and ensuring a positive shopping experience that creates trust in the IKEA Brand. Among other tasks, this involves experience in customer handling to ensure the satisfaction of the customers who contact us directly through the contact centre in all media platforms.

Your assignment

• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying the customers’ needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions;
• You take ownership for resolving your customer’s individual needs; communicating a realistic timeline for this resolution and keeping them informed as promised;
• You understand the impact of service time responses on the customers’ level of satisfaction and work both individually and with your colleagues to ensure that you match your agreed service levels;
• You have a good knowledge of store operations in order to offer appropriate solutions to the customers, giving advice on add-on sales, thereby encouraging them to buy more;
• You are listening to your customers and anticipating their needs, promoting IKEA products and services in order to improve their home-to-home shopping experience;
• You actively seek feedback and give feedback constructively to your colleagues in order to improve the shopping experience of all customers;
• You will be providing support and assistance to IKEA Philippines customers and ensuring best customer experience with IKEA tone of voice.
• You are available to help and support co-workers in your own department and other areas of the contact centre when your manager needs me to do so;
• You ensure our contact centre is always a safe and secure environment for visitors and co-workers.
• You take a keen interest in the performance of IKEA and keep yourself informed about results and look for more effective ways of working to reduce costs.

About the job

• Provide subject expertise and industry insight to strengthen Payment and Consumer Financing offers in different markets, driving customer satisfaction (e.g. convenient checkout), commercial growth (e.g. affordability through competitive financing options) and effectiveness (e.g. lower payment cost% by mix steering and negotiations).
• Collaborating with all parties involved, lead development initiatives and projects to support the implementation of the agreed payment & financing roadmaps, secure post go-live adoption and monitor business benefit realisation.
• Foster partnership with Payment Service Providers and financial institutions for competitive rate.

Your assignment

• Identify Payment and Checkout development opportunities, based on local market relevance and customer needs, with the aim for faster conversion and customer satisfaction in payment, contributing to Checkout performance in store and online.
• Together with Country CX and Selling to build Payment & Financing strategies that meet the customer expectation and business needs, reflecting a compliant, efficient and seamless payment experience across all channels.
• Develop business cases for new payment and financing solutions with the markets and monitor delivery on business benefits.
• Act as Project Manager to deliver Payment & Financing roadmap to secure high standard payment solutions meeting the customer expectation, reflecting a compliant, efficient and seamless payment experience across all channels to reach optimal conversion and operational excellence for customers and co-workers.
• Lead vendor selection and contract negotiations on behalf of Ikano Retail and its markets with Payment Services Providers (PSPs) and financial institutions (e.g. banks), secure handover process to Country CX after onboarding process.

About the job

• Turn the end-to-end shopping journey at IKEA frictionless, easy, seamless, and convenient.
• Advocate a culture of continuous improvement based on customer feedback in the area of convenience & support.
• Provide an accessible and convenient customer support (by CCC or coworkers in any IKEA Customer Meeting Point and/or self-support for the customer) by maximizing and/or developing new capabilities and system functionality.
• Expand and adopt new market relevant ways to communicate with customers for support purposes (e.g. Line chat, Social media).

Your assignment

• Co-create and agree with the markets, Functional Network Leaders, Retail Solutions Team and Digital Services the development roadmap required to create that frictionless, seamless experience.
• Be the contact point with Inter IKEA’s Development Team on the continuous enhancement and rolling out of new/enhanced initiatives such as PulseCX, Smaland 2.0, unassisted Play solutions, etc.
• Digitalization coworker processes and tools for time gain and higher efficiency (e.g. checkout process in-store, service order booking, food orders, customer refunds, etc.
• Enable customer self-support, chatbots for support in all CMPs to complement coworker service. This is the new “you do your part, we do ours, together we save money”. What can the customer do themselves to release dependency on coworker and increase efficiency.
• Reduce time at checkout both in-store as online/app for quicker conversion and decrease cart abandonment (loose hands in-store). Included here to assess which payment methods to offer at which checkout points to increase productivity and reduce waiting lines (e.g. Bistro vs Sales Desk at HFB4).
• Establish with Functional Network Leaders and Data team a reviewed set of KPIs that lead to more omnichannel behaviour/mindset by store coworkers. Ensure development and rollout of an automated dashboard across the different units and secure adoption through change management process.

About the job

Reporting to the Goods Flow Team Manager, this ASSOCIATE role is responsible for providing assistance in the completion of the Logistics process in the easiest and safest way possible. He/She develops and uses his/her knowledge and experience of IKEA operations, including IKEA machinery and equipment, as well as the expertise of his/her co-workers within the team to achieve the highest level of availability of products in the store.

Your assignment

• You perform effectively the Goods Flow operation tasks in your assigned area, using the available IKEA systems and equipment to achieve an efficient goods flow process and data integrity, in order to maximize stock accuracy and ensure the highest product availability for customers;
• You contribute to an optimized daily goods flow operation within the assigned goods flow processes by working in a lean, simple, and cost-conscious way;
• You contribute to the agreed goals of the Goods Flow Team, as well as being involved in the goal-setting process of your team;
• You comply with IKEA health, safety, and security guidelines, rules and regulations, and support colleagues in preventing untoward health, safety, and/or security-related incidents in the store.

About the job

We want to fill this position with a strong contributor to the Human Resource function, securing HR subject matter expertise in Payroll, HR & Office Admin; someone who shares our vision of "creating a better everyday life for the many people.

Your assignment

• You will be reporting to the Payroll & HR Admin Manager, Philippines

• You are responsible for the centralised payroll and salary administration of co-workers; manage the year-end income tax activity and 13th month reporting with DOLE.

• You ensure payroll & HR practices are in compliance to the national legislation and timely submission of statutory related documents.

• You will participate on payroll audit and support the rewards team in external compensation and benefits-related surveys for market benchmarking.

• You will be involved in both HR Admin activities, from data management, recruitment, on boarding, benefits administration to off boarding and work-pass related matter which includes mobility support for our co-workers in Service Office.

• You will participate in continuous improvement projects related to payroll and HR Admin matter.

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Prepare and maintain prepayment amortization and accruals schedules and reconciliation schedules
• Reconcile monthly GL accounts and subledger balances (like inventory/prepayment/other assets/accruals)
• Assist in the review and submission of tax returns and supporting alphalist or reports
• Ensure timely, accurate and consistent compliance with the accounting standards and tax regulations of the recorded financial transaction
• Supporting the Finance Manager with the statutory audit process and preparation of the audited financial statements
• Support and provide training to Store/Service Office Finance relating to General Accounting or Tax reporting
• Archiving of Accounting documents

Other ad hoc task as assigned and support general accounting functions

About the job

The Loyalty Communications Specialist is responsible to use the IKEA business priorities, knowledge of range and markets to optimise loyalty development and performance across all functions in the Philippines. The Loyalty Communications Specialist is responsible to support the development of the loyalty program now & in the future thereby securing a high level of performance in the Philippines. By using data and insights from competence tools, the Loyalty Communications Specialist participates in developing a strategic approach to initiatives, tools and reporting methods used to unleash potential across the country.  Loyalty Communications Specialist will deliver trainings and knowledge transfer relating to IKEA Family Club in Ikano Retail.

Your assignment

• Responsible for the conceptualization of communications / content for IKEA FAMILY and småles members (to ensure they visit IKEA stores more frequently and buy more) and delivery of these communications to members.
• Secure that all loyalty communications content created by IKEA is compelling, meaningful, relevant, and creative executions are integrated, consistent and of high quality, delivering on set campaign objectives that secure alliance with IKEA brand values within visual and copy identity guidelines.
• Working closely with the Loyalty Manager, Commercial Activities, IKEA Food, Local Marketing Managers, and country marketing team to plan a loyalty communications calendar/brief as a base to develop communications materials for IKEA FAMILY and småles members.
• Responsible for conceptualizing aligned loyalty communications content that supports external comms campaign or collection launches, Loyalty campaigns for points/voucher redemptions, IKEA food and product offers for members for the country.
• Conceptualization of quarterly content and development of creatives for two editions of the småles newsletter (i.e., Bug News and Bug News Lite) for the country.
• Responsible for conceptualizing Club exp communication, community management and members acquisition and engagement.
• Contribute to the development of Loyalty Programme and other admin tasks:
• Provide support to the Local Marketing Managers with ad-hoc ideation of the småles initiatives to recruit more loyalty members, increase visits, and improve member engagement.
• Feedback on effectiveness of the country’s current CRM programme and share ideas with the Loyalty team and Local Marketing Managers to support future developments.
• Contribute to the accuracy of the loyalty budget, expense admin and monthly reconciliation with finance, etc.
• Responsible for securing partnerships with other brands for the IKEA FAMILY loyalty programme that benefits our members.
• Database preparation: For CRM365 -prepare ad hoc marketing lists in Click Dimensions or extract out for DM and SMS. For Legacy CRM -Extract leads from CRM, clean up the list before upload into Cheetah, send to vendors for DM and SMS blast.
• Work with Regional Loyalty Specialist and IT Operations for local bug fixing deployment and onsite testing (ad hoc).
• Work with Sales to secure smales merchandise from Children's range (4 times/year).
• Answering queries from CCC and CR in case of escalation. For Legacy CRM: support in crediting points in CRM system (ad hoc).
• Other administrative tasks: submit monthly liability report, send IKEA FAMILY batch card (2x /month), manage IKEA FAMILY voucher stock (only in Legacy CRM).
• Work on other tasks and projects as assigned that will contribute to the development of IKEA retail operations (i.e., global, regional, country, or local initiatives).
• Support building the sustainability perception via IKEA Family members.
• Support the Regional Loyalty Roadmap

About the job

Reporting to the Customer Care Centre Team Leader, this AGENT role is responsible to build and retain a long-lasting relationship with new and existing customers in a multi-channel retail environment by valuing and fulfilling customer needs and expectations, understanding customer motivation and expectations, and ensuring a positive shopping experience that creates trust in the IKEA Brand. Among other tasks, this involves experience in customer handling to ensure the satisfaction of the customers who contact us directly through the contact centre in all media platforms.

Your assignment

• You are passionate about getting a good solution for your customers by identifying the customers’ needs and using your knowledge of the IKEA systems and processes to offer solutions;
• You take ownership for resolving your customer’s individual needs; communicating a realistic timeline for this resolution and keeping them informed as promised;
• You understand the impact of service time responses on the customers’ level of satisfaction and work both individually and with your colleagues to ensure that you match your agreed service levels;
• You have a good knowledge of store operations in order to offer appropriate solutions to the customers, giving advice on add-on sales, thereby encouraging them to buy more;
• You are listening to your customers and anticipating their needs, promoting IKEA products and services in order to improve their home-to-home shopping experience;
• You actively seek feedback and give feedback constructively to your colleagues in order to improve the shopping experience of all customers;
• You will be providing support and assistance to IKEA Philippines customers and ensuring best customer experience with IKEA tone of voice.
• You are available to help and support co-workers in your own department and other areas of the contact centre when your manager needs me to do so;
• You ensure our contact centre is a safe and secure environment at all times for visitors and co-workers;
• You take a keen interest in the performance of IKEA and keep yourself informed about results and look for more effective ways of working to reduce costs.

About the job

Service Operations Specialist is responsible for supporting the market Service Fulfilment team by working with IT solutions on the market, developing tools, invoicing and creating various analyses to secure a high-performing organisation in the market service fulfilment network including:

• Daily operations for services connected to internal and external service partners
• Operational excellence
• Efficiency and continuous improvement
• Short and mid-term capacities
• Cost development and contribution to the cost goal
• Lead-time development
• Sustainability

Contribute to the operations and development of the Service Fulfilment organisation with a customer-centric and collaborative approach in focus. Focus on delivering results with the sense of urgency, achieving and exceeding operational goals and higher efficiency on daily tasks. Provide a subject matter expertise and advice to business leaders within Service Fulfilment processes that will contribute to the development of business and people. Implement, assess standards, guidelines and policies within the own area of expertise and contribute to their development and update.

Your assignment

• Responsible for creating performance reports from IT solutions to enable a high performing daily operation and an efficient distribution network connected to service fulfilment including capacity utilization, delivery performance and shipment life cycle with a focus on quality and a customer-centric collaborative mind-set to enable competitiveness of IKEA in a multichannel environment and support long-term growth and profitability.
• Responsible to secure excellence in operations and quality under the scope of Service Fulfilment on the market through securing proper system setup for services, monitoring and reporting and clear connected communication with service partners to exceed customer expectations, provide seamless shopping experience and a great quality in meeting with the customer.
• Contribute to short-, and mid-term development of existing service partners through trainings in relevant IT solutions and for providing first line IT support towards service partners in daily business to secure that the service partners have the knowledge to perform their tasks to represent IKEA well and provide and excellent quality in the meeting with the customer.
• Responsible to define and maintain short and mid-term service and capacity parameters based on available forecasts.
• Responsible for securing accurate reporting of service costs through efficient and accurate reconciliation of invoicing of contract costs and connected analysis.
• Contribute to securing efficiency and implementing improvements on the market by supporting the development of operational processes and developing tools and ways of working in line with daily operational requirements in cooperation with relevant stakeholders to reach excellence in execution and exceed customer expectations.
• Identify, assess and in cooperation with the Ikea for Business Country Manager, select potential partners as needed for expansion of IB’s service offer.
• Throughout the process of fulfilment, always keep the customers updated on the position of delivery and ensure the quality of all information being passed on.
• Oversee the interface between IB and SSS, to ensure clarity and alignment of all parts of the supply chain.
• In coordination and cooperation with sales management, ensure that after-sales services related to fulfilment are done with precision and to the highest possible standard.
• Support Service Fulfilment developers in tender activities.

About the job

To be part of the finance organisation in IKEA Philippines supporting Service Office by that support the growth of IKEA businesses by ensuring accurate and timely work practices on:

• Processing and payment of invoices from local and foreign vendors and reimbursements to co-workers.
• Tax recording and remittances on local and foreign payments.

Your assignment

• Verify invoices and billings to ensure correctness and completeness of supporting documents (e.g. billing/sales invoice, receipt, purchase order) prior to payment processing.
• Prepare and ensure timely payments to local and foreign vendors including co-worker's claims.
• Liaise with vendors on payment related enquires.
• Liaise with banks for any issues related to payment.
• Prepare and ensure accurate and timely preparation and payment of monthly/quarterly tax returns and reconcile with the book.
• Reconcile payments and perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Generate vendor aging report and follow up long outstanding invoices.
• Reconciliation of monthly GL accounts and vendor balances.
• Assist Assistant Finance Manager/Finance Manager in the preparation of monthly reports and audit schedules.
• Support and provide training to Store Accounting Assistant in handling Store payables functions.
• Other ad hoc task as assigned and support general accounting/accounts payable functions.

About the job

We want to fill this position with a hands-on and detailed individual who can support the needs of the business as we grow as an organization with various revenue channels and payment methods.

Your assignment

• Record import related transactions/invoices in accounting system and reconcile with payments and bank statements.
• Liaise with banks and vendors on payment related enquires
• Reconciliation of GL accounts, vendor balances and archive accounting documents
• Assist in recording of journal entries in the accounting system and support in general accounting functions and tax reporting requirements
• Other ad hoc task as assigned