Financial Controller – Process Expert

Sandvik; Sandvikens kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandvik is seeking a finance professional to develop and standardize accounting processes across our Rock Tools division, balancing operational duties with continuous improvement and compliance with policies.

Based in Sandviken, the role offers a hybrid office/remote model and requires English and Swedish fluency. You will drive automation, enhance financial systems, and coach colleagues in accounting standards across functions.

Qualifications

• Strong background in accounting, financial controlling, and reporting.
• Experience driving process improvements, automation, and organizational change.
• Experience with financial systems and SAP S/4HANA.
• Fluency in English and Swedish.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve finance processes, controls, and standard ways of working.
• Drive continuous improvement across the finance organization.
• Perform advanced accounting activities, including financial reporting, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Participate in financial system testing, including designing and executing test cases for process development.
• Analyze improvement opportunities, follow up on outcomes, and identify corrective and preventive actions.
• Coach and train finance colleagues and stakeholders in accounting standards, best practices, and finance processes.

Skills

Accounting

Financial controlling

Financial reporting

Process improvement

Automation

English Swedish

Stakeholder management

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

This is a unique opportunity to shape and improve how finance processes are performed across our Rock Tools division. Working at the intersection of operational finance, continuous improvement, and business performance, you play a key role in shaping how finance processes evolve across the organization.

About the job

You develop and standardize ways of working within the general accounting area while ensuring compliance with accounting principles, policies, and service level agreements. You balance operational responsibilities with continuous improvement initiatives and play a key role in enhancing finance processes, systems, and collaboration across the organization.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and improve finance processes, ways of working, and controls to support harmonization, automation, and compliance.
• Drive and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the finance organization.
• Perform advanced accounting activities, including financial reporting, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Participate in financial system testing, including designing and executing test cases that support process development.
• Analyze improvement opportunities, follow up on outcomes, and identify corrective and preventive actions.
• Coach and train finance colleagues and stakeholders in accounting standards, best practices, and finance processes.

Location and flexibility

The position is based in Sandviken and follows a hybrid working model with flexibility to combine office and remote work.

Your profile

• You bring a strong background in accounting, financial controlling, and financial reporting combined with an interest in process development and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable working across functions, you enjoy creating structure, improving ways of working, and collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Your background includes Experience driving process improvements, automation initiatives, and organizational change.
• Experience working with financial systems, testing activities, and process development.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Fluency in English and Swedish.
• Success in this position comes from taking initiative, identifying opportunities, and driving activities forward independently.
• You maintain a broad perspective, understand how processes connect across the business, and combine analytical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset.

Our culture

Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering.

We believe in an inclusive, equal and open-minded culture, and we nurture our diversities to form a solid foundation for achieving great results.

• Add fair and rewarding benefits, as well as many different career options.

Business area Mining

Business area Mining is a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Applications include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2025, sales were approximately SEK 63 billion with about 18,400 employees. When you join our global team you will find yourself inspired by the spirit of Sandvik and contribute to our purpose to advance the world through engineering. Sandvik is a global, high-tech engineering group providing solutions that enhance productivity, profitability and sustainability for the manufacturing, mining and infrastructure industries. Our offerings cover the entire customer value chain and are based on extensive investments in research and development, customer insights and deep knowledge of industrial processes and digital solutions. In 2024 the Group had approximately 41,000 employees and revenues of about 123 billion SEK in about 150 countries within continuing operations. Sandvik at a glance

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Emma Cavanagh Bergman, hiring manager, [e-mail]

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Union contacts – Sweden

• Cecilia Mickelsson, Unionen, [phone]
• Erik Kjerf, Akademikerföreningen, [phone]
• Olle Hansson, Ledarna, [phone]

Recruitment Specialist: Lisbeth Häggström