Senior Financial Controller

alight-energy.com; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 900,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alight Energy in Stockholm is seeking a Senior Financial Controller to own cross-group accounting and drive robust controls. You will work closely with the Group Chief Accountant and CFO, balancing strategic governance with hands-on consolidation across entities.

You bring 4–5+ years in qualified accounting, deep tax and consolidation knowledge, and a knack for improving processes with AI tools. Hybrid work from our Stockholm HQ is offered.

Qualifications

• At least 4–5 years of experience in qualified accounting.
• Experience in group or multi-entity controlling with internal control, reconciliations and local GAAP.
• Consolidation experience is a strong plus, with exposure to structural complexity (e.g., real estate).
• Strong accounting and tax competence, linking subsidiary accounting to group level.
• Proactive process improvement and familiarity with AI-assisted workflows.
• Fluent in Swedish and English.
• Based in or able to work mainly from Stockholm on a hybrid basis.

Responsibilities

• Own group-wide reconciliations, control checks and deviation follow-up.
• Strengthen accounting robustness, traceability and documentation including handbooks.
• Ensure consolidation and local GAAP compliance across countries.
• Contribute to the AI transformation of the accounting team.
• Lead implementation or migration of a consolidation system together with the Group Chief Accountant.
• Advise on complex accounting, tax and structural questions.
• Share ownership of entities with other senior accounting team members.
• Drive process improvements across AP/payments, salary and expense workflows.
• Assist with tax processes including VAT and transfer pricing.
• Mentor junior controllers and financial accountants.
• Support M&A transactions as they arise.

Skills

Multi-entity accounting

Internal controls

Consolidation

Tax competence

Process improvement

AI tools usage

Swedish-English bilingual

Education

Qualified accounting background

Tools

AI tools

Job description

As a Senior Financial Controller, you will take on a cross-group financial controlling role, ensuring robust, traceable and compliant accounting across all entities and countries in the group. Working closely with the Group Chief Accountant, you will act as a senior advisor and sounding board on complex accounting, tax and structural questions, while also taking ownership of certain entities as part of the wider controlling team.

This role is based at our HQ in central Stockholm, with the flexibility of a hybrid setup.

Your impact

You will play a key role in strengthening financial governance and control across the group by:

• Owning group-wide reconciliations, internal control checks and deviation follow-up.
• Strengthening accounting robustness, traceability and documentation, including handbooks.
• Ensuring consolidation and local GAAP compliance across countries.
• Playing a key role on the AI transformation of the accounting team.
• Leading, as a key person together with the Group Chief Accountant, the implementation or migration of a consolidation system.
• Acting as a senior advisor and sounding board to the Group Chief Accountant on complex accounting, tax and structural questions.
• Taking ownership of certain entities, sharing this responsibility with other senior members of the accounting team.
• Driving process improvement across AP/payments, salary and expense workflows.
• Contributing to tax processes, including VAT and transfer pricing.
• Mentoring junior controllers and financial accountants.
• Supporting M&A transactions as they arise.

We’re looking for you

You are experienced, structured and comfortable stepping into a senior role working close to the Group Chief Accountant and CFO. You combine a helicopter perspective with strong detail control, and you’re driven to build structure and improve processes and systems, not just maintain them. Your career likely started in audit, followed by several years of qualified in-house accounting, ideally including group or multi-entity controlling experience.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 4–5 years of experience in qualified accounting; more is welcome.
• Group or multi-entity controlling experience, with a strong grasp of internal control, reconciliations and local GAAP.
• Consolidation experience is a strong plus, though not a requirement; exposure to structural complexity, for example in real estate, is an advantage.
• Strong accounting and tax competence, with a good understanding of how subsidiary-level accounting connects to the group level.
• Process- and improvement-driven, comfortable using AI tools to enhance ways of working.
• Fluent in Swedish and English.
• Based in or able to work primarily from our Stockholm office, on a hybrid basis.