Finance and controlling

Associate Lead Controller

Imagine a future where you use your deep knowledge and expertise to ensure excellent financial reporting by leveraging business knowledge and process optimisation

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for the financial controlling of highly complex legal entities in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, incl. controlling the monthly figures based on IFRS, annual reports based on local GAAP, and ensuring that processes and internal control descriptions are in place and well executed. In this role, you’ll work with a lot of complex accounting issues. You’ll play a significant role in process optimisation, aided by your significant experience in the field. In this role you’ll use your experience to make sure that our finances are handled in a professional and effective way.

Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling
You’ll be part of Financial Controlling Nordics where you, together with your colleagues, will ensure compliance and deliver high-quality and timely financial reporting to our internal and external stakeholders. You’ll also work closely with our auditors to ensure that documentation is delivered according to an agreed quality and in a timely manner.

As a team, we support each other solving complex accounting tasks. We make use of the individual skillsets in the team and ensure that all team members have challenging tasks.

You’ll play an important role in:

  • ensuring efficient and compliant processes by driving continuous improvement, in close collaboration with colleagues and management
  • ensuring timely deliverables within high quality to internal and external stakeholders
  • driving and ensuring the implementation of our standard processes
  • planning audits and maintaining a close dialogue with external auditors
  • technical accounting controlling, incl. implementing and monitoring compliance, primarily with IFRS but also local GAAP accounting
  • being a trusted collaborator for internal and external stakeholders and striving to leave the stakeholder with a good experience.

To succeed in the role, you:

  • have a master’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, combined with CPA, ACCA, or similar
  • have solid experience as an auditor, combined with some background in working in controlling department in a large international company, and thrive in a changing environment, take responsibility
  • have an analytical and logical approach to issues, as well as the ability to respond positively to feedback
  • have excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, are results-oriented, set visible and relevant goals for your tasks, and are a problem-solver with a positive can-do attitude
  • have solid knowledge of financial and accounting (IFRS) controls
  • take an analytical and logical approach to issues, as well as have the ability to handle the information you receive with a critical eye.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

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Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accomodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.