Finance Business Partner - Data & Analytics

Centra; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 940,000; Full time

Job summary

Centra is seeking a lead finance-and-data hire to partner with teams across the company. You’ll own SaaS metrics, pricing analytics, and gross margin improvements, while ensuring accurate reporting and robust data quality.

You’ll automate recurring tasks and apply AI to forecasting and variance analysis, shaping financial strategy across multiple markets. The role combines close collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Finance to deliver self-serve insights and a reliable monthly

Qualifications

• 4-6 years as a Business Controller, Financial Controller, or data-focused finance role.
• SaaS fluency. Subscription models, recurring revenue, and what drives gross margin.
• Solid accounting foundations. Ability to own a close and defend revenue recognition.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics and reporting layer across the company, making dashboards self-serve.
• Manage data quality and systems integration between Plock, banking, and accounting systems; explore AI forecasting and automation.
• Own monthly close, consolidation, and audit processes, coordinating with finance partners and external auditors.

Skills

Analytics mindset

Multi-currency reporting

Cross-functional partnering

Tools

SQL

Excel

BI tooling

Bright Analytics

Job description

We're not just building an ecommerce platform. We’re reshaping how fashion & lifestyle brands scale globally.

Our API-first, headless SaaS platform supports over 300 brands in delivering localized, high-performance shopping experiences across 120+ countries. Backed by a 50 million SEK investment from the H&M Group, we power leading names like COS, ARKET, & Other Stories, Weekday, Nudie Jeans, and Paul Smith. Brands trust Centra to run operations in 20+ markets - a reflection of the platform’s flexibility and efficiency.

Why Join Centra?

Our finance team has one goal: to proactively give the business the data it needs to decide. Not reports on request - analysis that arrives before the decision does. The stack is in place. Bright Analytics consolidates our accounting systems in Sweden and the UK, with Poland next, and lands fresh data daily. Plock runs billing straight into those systems, with HubSpot connecting soon. Now we're adding the analytical layer on top and that's this role. You'd be our lead finance-and-data hire, with a real mandate over tools and standards.

What You’ll Do.

• Business analysis & partnering (60%): The analytical partner across the company. Pricing tiers and SaaS KPIs with Sales and Marketing - ARR, churn, LTV, CAC. Cloud and API costs and gross margin with Engineering. You own the reporting and dashboard layer, and you make it self-serve.
• Data quality & systems (25%): Own the flow between Plock, our banking, and our accounting systems - and make the HubSpot connection earn its keep. Apply AI to real finance workflows: forecasting, variance analysis, modelling. If a recurring task can be automated, we want it automated.
• Close, consolidation & audit (15-20%): Own the monthly close - accruals, cut-off, reconciliation review, the reporting pack. Day-to-day bookkeeping is outsourced; the judgement and the numbers are yours. Own consolidation in Bright Analytics, bring Poland onto it, and lead our side of the annual audit.

What We’re Looking For.

• 4-6 years as a Business Controller, Financial Controller, or in a data-focused finance role.
• SaaS fluency. Subscription models, recurring revenue, and what actually drives gross margin.
• Solid accounting foundations. You can own a close and defend your revenue recognition to an auditor. Deferred revenue and contract liabilities are familiar territory.
• A technical controller's instincts. You query large datasets yourself - SQL, spreadsheets, BI tooling - and find the trend without waiting on a data team.
• International scope. Multi-currency, multi-entity reporting.
• Hands-on AI experimentation in finance processes. Tell us about a workflow you automated

You don't need to check every box. Strong on analysis and lighter on consolidation, or the reverse - still worth a conversation

We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and to building a team with diverse perspectives. If you need adjustments during the process, please let us know.