Financial Controller - Finland

Neoen; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Neoen in Finland is seeking a Financial Controller to drive financial procedures, budgeting, reporting, and tax compliance within a young, international team. You will coordinate with local business teams and external accounting partners to ensure accurate financial data and robust internal controls.

Responsibilities include monthly reporting, cash flow forecasting, and participation in audits, while maintaining Finnish GAAP alignment and supporting construction budgeting and financial analyses.

Qualifications

• Degree in finance with 3–5 years in audit or financial roles in a multinational environment.
• Strong analytical, proactive and autonomous working style.
• Fluent in Finnish, Swedish and English (spoken and written).
• Good understanding of Finnish GAAP and tax reporting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate financial information between local business team and external accounting team.
• Ensure proper controls of accounting operations and invoicing processes.
• Improve accuracy of annual financial statements and GAAP compliance.
• Participate in external audits and prepare monthly reporting and cash flow forecasts.
• Support budgeting, variances analysis and semi-annual consolidation packages.

Skills

Finnish

Swedish

English

Auditing experience

Multinational experience

Analytical

Proactive

Autonomous

Rigorous

Education

Finance degree

Tools

Finnish GAAP knowledge

Finnish tax knowledge

Job description

Our European Finance team is looking for a Financial Controller in Finland.

As Financial Controller, you will conduct various tasks. Among other things, your missions will be:

1/ FINANCIAL PROCEDURES AND STATUTORY COMPLIANCE

• Coordinating financial information between local business team, external accounting team and supervise the work of the latter.
• Ensuring proper controls of accounting operations (Invoicing of Electricity generated, monitoring of receivables, payments, etc.)
• Enhancing the accuracy of the annual financial statements and ensure that reported results comply with local GAAPs.
• Participating at the external audits for statutory or group purposes.
• Processing invoices and payments.
• Giving inputs and assisting in implementing internal control.

2/ BUDGET AND REPORTING

• Assisting in the budgets and forecasts preparation, including the monthly follow-up and update of the construction budget and cash position.
• Analyzing variances of actuals versus forecast and budgets.
• Preparation of the monthly reporting and cash flow forecast, and semi-annual consolidation packages of the country (including P&L, CAPEX, cash flow and forecasts) and ensure that reported results comply with Group procedures.

3/ TAXES

• Ensuring proper control of local tax returns prepared by local external accountants.
• Assisting in the review of tax aspects in financial models.

Be part of a young, dynamic and international team at one of the world's leading and fastest growing independent producers of renewable energy.

You will need the following skills or experience to succeed in this role:

• You hold a degree in finance and have from 3 to 5 years of experience in audit and/or financial roles, ideally in a multinational environment. Experience in audit or in the energy industry is a plus.
• You are reliable, autonomous, rigorous and analytical, with a good business sense and proven communication skills.
• You fluently speak Finnish, Swedish and English (written and spoken).
• You know the Finnish Gaap standards, have a good knowledge of Finnish taxes and reporting/budget.
• Beyond competences we are looking for someone who is proactive, reliable, autonomous, rigorous and analytical, with a good business sense and proven communication skills and solution-oriented, and eager to learn with an appetite to work in a multicultural environment.