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LocationEdmonton
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Employment typeFull Time Permanent
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DepartmentFinance, Accounting & Tax
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Deadline2026-07-17
Sales & Finance Business Performance Specialist
"You care about making a positive impact in the world. You understand greatness requires thinking differently. An inclusive and accepting work environment is important to you.
A job at IKEA is so much more than home furnishings. Together, we work to make a better everyday life for the many. It's the perfect fit if you want to contribute, grow, and share. Join the team and start a better life for yourself."
Candidate profile (title)
What you'll need to have
Candidate profile (text) - Default language
• You are energized by increasing customer value, driving business growth and contributing to overall success and results through people.
• You have minimum of 5 years’ business navigation experience working with both commercial and financial processes, particularly retail pricing.
• You are a strategic, tactical and operational business partner who is highly capable to translate external trends into business opportunities and completely
understands the importance to build a strong connection with the everyday lives of the many people.
• You are motivated to share and live the IKEA culture and values and can effectively manage an ever-changing environment with many different stakeholders and
competing demands.
• You have a good understanding of data science, new technologies, analytics and their wide-ranging application in business context.
• You are an approachable, trustworthy and a strong communicator leader who develops and promote lean, simple and effective ways of working.
• You are assertive and self-reliant with a proven aptitude to structure, prioritize and delegate work to make things happen through fostering togetherness and
leading by example.
• You have minimum of 5 years’ business navigation experience working with both commercial and financial processes, particularly retail pricing.
• You are a strategic, tactical and operational business partner who is highly capable to translate external trends into business opportunities and completely
understands the importance to build a strong connection with the everyday lives of the many people.
• You are motivated to share and live the IKEA culture and values and can effectively manage an ever-changing environment with many different stakeholders and
competing demands.
• You have a good understanding of data science, new technologies, analytics and their wide-ranging application in business context.
• You are an approachable, trustworthy and a strong communicator leader who develops and promote lean, simple and effective ways of working.
• You are assertive and self-reliant with a proven aptitude to structure, prioritize and delegate work to make things happen through fostering togetherness and
leading by example.
Key responsibilities (title)
A day in your life with us
Key responsibilities (text)
• Provide the unit management with information, analysis and expert insight to support challenges and steer the business towards growth, optimal performance
and sustained long-term profitability.
• Support and encourage fellow coworkers to use business cases when identifying, evaluating and acting on business opportunities as they arise to secure a strong
retail foundation and expand our existing base.
• Work closely with stakeholders to analyse and evaluate benefits, costs and investments ensuring a good return on investment and qualitative business cases.
• Navigate towards more effective and cost-conscious ways of working, identifying growth and cost potentials through benchmarking, striving for constant
improvements and closing the performance gap.
• Support the unit and specifically staff planning and operations with business navigation competence enabling them to make optimised decisions in their
everyday work.
• Contribute to the financial business planning process by ensuring that the financial plan is aligned with the BPL priorities and make sure the rules, IKEA group
risk manual guidelines and country legislation are implemented and monitored.
• Lead and co-ordinate the financial follow-up and forecasting process in the unit, in line with the global business navigation year cycle.
• Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promoting standardised reporting and ensure succession planning for all key roles.
• Use a multidimensional approach, all the information and tools available to maximize productivity and efficiency and enable a better life at home.
and sustained long-term profitability.
• Support and encourage fellow coworkers to use business cases when identifying, evaluating and acting on business opportunities as they arise to secure a strong
retail foundation and expand our existing base.
• Work closely with stakeholders to analyse and evaluate benefits, costs and investments ensuring a good return on investment and qualitative business cases.
• Navigate towards more effective and cost-conscious ways of working, identifying growth and cost potentials through benchmarking, striving for constant
improvements and closing the performance gap.
• Support the unit and specifically staff planning and operations with business navigation competence enabling them to make optimised decisions in their
everyday work.
• Contribute to the financial business planning process by ensuring that the financial plan is aligned with the BPL priorities and make sure the rules, IKEA group
risk manual guidelines and country legislation are implemented and monitored.
• Lead and co-ordinate the financial follow-up and forecasting process in the unit, in line with the global business navigation year cycle.
• Provide relevant, user-friendly business information, promoting standardised reporting and ensure succession planning for all key roles.
• Use a multidimensional approach, all the information and tools available to maximize productivity and efficiency and enable a better life at home.
Team vision ( title)
About this work area
Team vision (text)
We see ourselves as influencers – we steer the IKEA business by finding the truth behind the figures. Together we secure compliance with local and international laws and reporting standards; we assure that accounting processes are efficient and that tax compliance meets business needs. We’re a diverse group of people driven by providing reliable financial data to a wide variety of stakeholders. At the end of the day, that’s one of the foundations to make IKEA even better!
Local section (title)
Why you will love us
Local section (text)
Here at IKEA, we want to ensure that we are creating a better everyday life for the many people, including our co-workers. We also believe that a job should be so much more than a job. That’s why we focus on having an inclusive work environment where we celebrate your uniqueness, live our values, and ensure that we walk the talk when it comes to co-worker development. In addition, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to all co-workers including:
• Wellness days (in addition to your vacation days!)
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
• RRSP with IKEA contribution matching options
• Eligibility for our annual IKEA bonus incentive plan
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Merchandise and restaurant discounts (plus free drinks and different healthy meal options in the co-worker restaurant, where available)
• Parental leave
• Bereavement leave
• Employee assistance program (that helps you support your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing)
P.S. In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as: Business Navigator
Please note: This position requires the submission of a satisfactory criminal record check. A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position.
• Wellness days (in addition to your vacation days!)
• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage (for you and your family)
• RRSP with IKEA contribution matching options
• Eligibility for our annual IKEA bonus incentive plan
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Merchandise and restaurant discounts (plus free drinks and different healthy meal options in the co-worker restaurant, where available)
• Parental leave
• Bereavement leave
• Employee assistance program (that helps you support your mental, physical, and financial wellbeing)
P.S. In the IKEA world, this position is officially referred to as: Business Navigator
Please note: This position requires the submission of a satisfactory criminal record check. A record under the Criminal Code and/or other federal offence record(s) does not automatically mean you will be ineligible for the position.
Why you will love us
From the deep forests in Sweden, we have spread our culture and values around the world. At the heart of our offer are our beautiful home-furnishing products and solutions, made with care for our planet, reaching millions of customers.
At the heart of our business, are our wonderful co-workers representing diversity in all dimensions and passionate for life at home. We all contribute with our uniqueness and we want to grow and develop together.
Our vision, “to create a better everyday life for the many people” inspires and guides us in everything we do. This is IKEA.
What we all have in common
- Living our values
- Being your unique self, while respecting and including others
- A passion for home furnishing
- Performing & delivering while learning & developing
- Having fun!
Your uniqueness makes Ikea better
We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and be given equal opportunities, regardless of their age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion or any other dimension of their identity.
We are committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide appropriate accommodation which considers the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. If you require accommodation, please contact HR.Canada@ingka.ikea.com
Note: A qualified job applicant with a disability is one who possesses the required skills, education, experience and training and who can, with reasonable accommodation, perform the essential functions of the position applied for.