Business Controller, Sales, Consumer Packaging

Metsä Board Sverige Ab; Espoo; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive occupational health care

Extensive training and development

Culture and sports benefits

Job summary

Metsä Board is seeking a motivated Business Controller to strengthen the Consumer Packaging unit. Based at our Espoo head office, you will partner with SVP Finance and SVP Commercial Operations to ensure transparent financial performance and robust planning.

The role emphasizes pricing, margins, volumes, and profitability analysis in a sales-driven environment. You will drive planning processes, KPI reporting, and data-driven decision support, leveraging Power BI, SAP tools, and advanced Excel.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in accounting or finance or industrial economics or a similar field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in business controlling or financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Business controlling support for the Consumer packaging business.
• Ensuring high level data consistency and reliability in financial and profitability reporting.
• Analysis of sales, pricing, volumes, margins, and profitability drivers.
• Support of business planning processes including annual planning, rolling forecasts, and long-term planning.
• Scenario analyses supporting commercial and business decision-making.
• Monthly KPI and performance reporting with clear business-oriented insights.
• Ad hoc analyses and financial support to business management.
• Support of internal controls related to business processes.
• Development of reporting, tools, and processes supporting business steering.
• Participation in finance, data, and system development initiatives where relevant.

Skills

Analytical skills

AI in work

Power BI reports

Excel skills

SAP

SAP BW

SAP Analytics Cloud

Finnish/English bilingual

Education

Master's degree in accounting/finance/industrial economics or similar

Tools

Power BI

Excel

SAP

SAP BW

SAP Analytics Cloud

Job description

Metsä Board

Metsä Group is a successful forest industry group with roots in the Finnish forest - Our parent company is a cooperative of over 90,000 forest owners. Metsä Group's paperboard business Metsä Board produces lightweight high-quality folding boxboard and food service paperboards, as well as white kraftliners. The pure fresh fibre used in our products is a renewable, safe and recyclable raw material from northern forests. Metsä Board's shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.

We welcome people from diverse backgrounds and different stages of life. Metsä has space and opportunities for many kinds of talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, disability or other characteristics - Metsä is for all. Read more: metsagroup.com/metsaforall .

This recruitment is carried out anonymously.

BUSINESS CONTROLLER

to support and steer Metsä Board's Consumer Packaging business.

Your primary responsibility is to ensure high-quality financial transparency and performance management for the Consumer Packaging business. You work as a close finance partner to SVP, Sales and SVP, Commercial Operations. The role is largely sales analysis driven, with a strong focus on pricing, margins, volumes, and profitability. At the same time, there is a strong development focus to support Metsä Board's strategic targets. You report to the CFO of Metsä Board and are located at Metsä Board's head office in Espoo.

Key responsibilities

• Business controlling support for the Consumer packaging business
• Ensuring high level data consistency and reliability in financial and profitability reporting
• Analysis of sales, pricing, volumes, margins, and profitability drivers
• Support of business planning processes including annual planning, rolling forecasts, and long-term planning
• Scenario analyses supporting commercial and business decision-making
• Monthly KPI and performance reporting with clear business-oriented insights
• Ad hoc analyses and financial support to business management
• Support of internal controls related to business processes
• Development of reporting, tools, and processes supporting business steering
• Participation in finance, data, and system development initiatives where relevant

What are we expecting of you?

You have a Master's degree in accounting, finance, industrial economics or a similar field, and at least 5 years of relevant work experience in business controlling or financial analysis. Experience from a sales-driven, commercial, or P&L-responsible business environment is considered as an advantage.

Technical skills

• Strong analytical skills and experience in management reporting
• Ability to take full advantage of AI in your work
• Experience in building Power BI reports; knowledge of other BI tools is considered an advantage
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience with SAP, SAP BW and/or SAP Analytics Cloud
• Fluent Finnish and English communication skills

To succeed in the role, you work in a systematic and accurate manner, have strong attention to detail, are development-oriented and comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with business stakeholders.

Career in the new era at Metsä Group

An international growth business - build a successful career At Metsä Group. The forest industry is a prime example of the bioeconomy and circular economy, and shows the way to the future. Megatrends such as urbanisation and rising living standards are driving Metsä Group's business and the shift to renewable fossil free raw materials. With us, you'll get to develop future skills, business and products with a long-term perspective, together with our top professionals. Our big company offers a wide range of career opportunities and many interesting challenges.

Metsä Group has a responsible corporate culture that creates a safe working environment for all of us.

We value good leadership and support for personal career development. We encourage you to display your competence and will provide you with opportunities to use it.

Fringe benefits

• comprehensive occupational health care
• extensive training and development opportunities
• culture and sports benefits

To support wellbeing at work, we encourage our employees to take advantage of culture and sports benefits.

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