Finance & Business Control Manager - Renewables Operations

UPM; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful work

Global team

Development opportunities

Sustainability focus

Job summary

UPM in Finland (Tampere or Helsinki) or Leuna, Germany, seeks a Manager, Business Control to steer profitability for Next Generation Renewables operations. You will drive cost visibility, budgeting, and investment decisions in a fast-growing biorefinery portfolio, partnering with refinery management to translate operations into financial targets.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in business controlling, strong ERP (S/4HANA), and data tools experience; fluent English; Finnish or German a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in business controlling, preferably in industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Proactive and highly motivated with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ownership in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Experience in supporting operational decision-making.
• Strong experience in product costing, fixed-cost management and financial modelling.
• Hands-on experience with ERP (S/4HANA) and performance tools (PowerPoint, Excel, data processing and visualization tools).
• Fluent in written and spoken English; Finnish and German are considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational profitability by building best-in-class cost visibility and performance analytics, with a strong focus on fixed-cost planning, monitoring, optimization and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Lead and actively contribute to the development of business control processes, reporting solutions and digital tools to improve data quality, efficiency and decision-making speed.
• Act as a key partner to refinery management in investment and development decisions.
• Forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning for refinery operations, translating operational assumptions into actionable financial targets and insights.
• Strengthen internal controls in a complex industrial environment.

Skills

Business controlling

Industrial/manufacturing experience

Problem solving

Process development

ERP S/4HANA

PowerPoint

Excel

Data visualization

Financial modelling

Communication skills

Tools

S/4HANA

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

UPM in Finland (Tampere or Helsinki) or Leuna, Germany, seeks a Manager, Business Control to steer profitability for Next Generation Renewables operations. You will drive cost visibility, budgeting, and investment decisions in a fast-growing biorefinery portfolio, partnering with refinery management to translate operations into financial targets.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in business controlling, strong ERP (S/4HANA), and data tools experience; fluent English; Finnish or German a plus.