Group Chief Accountant

Eficode Group; Göteborgs kommun; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Eficode is seeking an experienced Group Chief Accountant to own the Group balance sheet, cash flow and financial controls across our international footprint. You will lead the Finance team, drive consistency, and help shape a scalable, group-led finance function reporting to the Chief Finance Officer.

With strong technical accounting expertise and people leadership, you’ll partner with Finance leaders and stakeholders across our multi-country organisation, guiding tax, treasury and governance in

Qualifications

• Senior finance leader with international accounting experience.
• Proven ability to manage groups of professionals and budgets.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience driving finance transformation in multi-entity setups.

Responsibilities

• Own the Group balance sheet and cash flow with strong controls.
• Lead, coach and develop members of the Finance team.
• Drive standardisation across Group accounting processes.
• Lead areas of tax, treasury, liquidity and transfer pricing.
• Coordinate external audits and strengthen internal controls.
• Manage FX exposure and financial risk oversight.
• Support Finance transformation toward a scalable operating model.
• Partner with Finance leadership across the international organisation.

Skills

Financial leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

People management

International accounting

Communication

Education

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

ERP systems

Tax software

Job description

Welcome to Eficode!

We’re building the future of software development - driving innovation across Cloud, DevOps, Agile, Service Management, and AI-powered transformation. Our mission is to help organizations evolve into truly software-driven enterprises, empowering them to deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainably. We believe in changing the world by sharing our expertise and enabling teams to work better through modern technology and intelligent automation.

We’re building the future of software development - driving innovation across Cloud, DevOps, Agile, Service Management, and AI-powered transformation. Our mission is to help organizations evolve into truly software-driven enterprises, empowering them to deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainably. We believe in changing the world by sharing our expertise and enabling teams to work better through modern technology and intelligent automation.

As an Atlassian Platinum Partner, we have been recognized multiple times as Atlassian Partner of the Year, most recently for 2024–25. We are also proud to be a two-time GitHub Partner of the Year in EMEA and an Azure Managed Service Provider. With over 600 experts across 10 countries, we bring together leading talent from the Nordics, continental Europe, the UK, and the Americas.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Group Chief Accountant to play a key role in the next stage of our Finance journey.

You’ll take ownership of accounting integrity, financial control and compliance across our international Group, while helping us build a more consistent, scalable and group-led Finance function.

Combining strong technical accounting expertise with people leadership, you’ll have the opportunity to develop our Finance team, improve how we work and help shape the future of Finance at Eficode.

You will report directly to our Chief Finance Officer.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Own the Group balance sheet and cash flow, ensuring accuracy and strong financial control.
• Lead, coach and develop members of our Finance team.
• Drive consistency and standardisation across Group accounting processes, controls and ways of working.
• Lead key areas of tax, treasury, banking, liquidity, transfer pricing and financial compliance.
• Coordinate external audits and strengthen our internal control environment.
• Support the management of foreign exchange exposure and wider financial risks.
• Play a key role in Finance transformation as we move towards a more scalable, group-led operating model.
• Partner with Finance leadership and stakeholders across our international organisation.

Success Factors

• 10+ years’ experience in accounting, financial control or a similar senior Finance role.
• A professional accounting qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
• Strong technical accounting expertise across balance sheet management, cash flow, tax, audit and internal controls.
• Proven experience leading and developing Finance professionals.
• Experience working in a complex, multi-entity and/or international organisation.
• Experience supporting Finance transformation, process improvement or operating model change.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken.

Desired skills and qualifications

It would be an added bonus if you have:

• Experience within a group-led or centralised Finance function.
• Experience supporting post-acquisition integration.
• Knowledge of treasury, banking, liquidity, debt, foreign exchange and transfer pricing.
• Finnish or Swedish language skills would be beneficial.

About you

The type of person we’re looking for is:

• A confident Finance leader who can balance technical detail with the bigger picture.
• A supportive people manager who enjoys developing others and building effective teams.
• Proactive and improvement-focused, with the confidence to challenge existing ways of working.
• Collaborative and pragmatic, with the ability to build relationships across teams and countries.
• Comfortable working in an evolving environment and bringing greater structure, consistency and clarity.