Business Controller, Vianor

Nokian Tyres plc; Nokia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokian Tyres plc in Finland seeks a Business Controller, Vianor to join the team. The role acts as a senior finance business partner to Vianor leadership, providing financial insight, analysis and challenge to support performance management and strategic decisions.

The successful candidate combines strong financial expertise with commercial curiosity, drives profitability, and collaborates across functions and countries. Fluency in Finnish and English is required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or economics.
• Solid experience in business controlling, planning and analysis in an international environment.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and profitability drivers.
• Fluent Finnish and English; strong communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive financial support and insights to Vianor leadership and country organizations.
• Lead analysis of sales, margin, cost, operating profit, working capital and cash flow.
• Own budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning in collaboration with leaders.
• Ensure timely, accurate reporting and continuously improve insights and visualization.
• Support investment decisions, business cases and M&A-related activities.
• Drive continuous improvement of processes, tools and data analytics.

Skills

Financial planning

Business partnering

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Finnish

Education

Master's degree in Finance

Tools

ERP systems

BI tools

Job description

Nokian Tyres is a Finnish company that as the first in the world invented the winter tire in 1934. We continue to drive innovation and develop our premium technology from Nokia, where we are rooted. Today, operating in over 60 countries across the world, we are looking for experienced professionals and future talents to join us.

We are looking for a Business Controller, Vianor to join our team.

The Business Controller, Vianor acts as a senior finance business partner to the Vianor business leadership, providing financial insight, analysis and challenge to support performance management, profitability improvement and strategic decision-making. The role combines strong business understanding, disciplined financial planning and reporting, and the ability to translate complex financial information into clear business actions.

Key responsibilities:

• Financial leadership and business partnering: Provide proactive financial support, challenge and insights to Vianor business leadership and country organizations. Act as a trusted sparring partner in identifying performance drivers, risks, opportunities and concrete improvement actions.
• Performance management and profitability analysis: Lead analysis of business performance across sales, margin, cost, operating profit, working capital and cash flow. Support the business in understanding key profitability drivers, including customer, product, country and price-volume-mix dynamics.
• Planning, forecasting and budgeting: Own and coordinate key financial planning processes for Vianor, including monthly estimates, annual budgeting and long-range planning, in close cooperation with business leadership and country finance teams.
• Reporting and financial transparency: Ensure timely, accurate and meaningful financial reporting for Vianor and support country companies in monthly reporting. Continuously improve reporting quality, management insight and visualization of key financial information.
• Investment, business case and strategic support: Support business development, investment decisions, expansion initiatives and M&A-related activities by providing robust financial analysis, business case modelling and standardized evaluation methods.
• Process, tools and ways-of-working development: Drive continuous improvement of financial processes, planning practices, reporting tools and analytical methods. Promote efficient use of systems, data and digital tools, including business intelligence and AI-supported analysis.
• Governance, controls and audit support: Support sound financial governance, internal cost allocation, inventory-related follow-up and audit processes for Vianor and relevant country companies.

What we expect from you:

• A master’s degree, preferably in finance, accounting or economics.
• Solid experience in business controlling, financial planning and analysis, reporting or a comparable senior finance role, preferably in an international, multi-entity environment.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, profitability drivers and financial performance management.
• Proven ability to act as a business partner to senior stakeholders, challenge constructively and convert financial analysis into practical business recommendations.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, investment analysis and business case modelling.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial topics for business audiences.
• High level of integrity, ownership and attention to detail, combined with the ability to operate independently and drive improvement across processes, tools and ways of working.
• Good command of modern finance systems, reporting tools and data analytics solutions; experience with business intelligence tools is an advantage.
• Fluent written and spoken Finnish and English. Other relevant languages are considered an advantage.

The successful candidate combines strong financial expertise with commercial curiosity and a hands‑on understanding of business operations. They are expected to be proactive, structured and collaborative, with the confidence to challenge the business constructively while building trust‑based relationships across functions and countries.

Our way of working

Our talented people, energizing collaboration, and agile way of working ensure that we achieve great results together. We believe in involvement and active ownership. Nokian Tyres wants everyone to have both the power and the opportunity to influence matters, and we support your professional growth. We value different experiences and competencies. They play a key role in the development of the company as well as our new, innovative solutions.

Are you interested in joining our inspiring team?

Please send the application, including your CV and salary request by 11th October 2026.

For further information, please contact: Timo Koponen, e-mail [e-mail].