Senior Financial Controller
Alight · Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Finance
- Experience
- 4+ years
Do you enjoy bringing structure, control and clarity to complex, multi-entity accounting, and want to use those skills to accelerate the transition to renewable energy?
Welcome to Alight! We're an entrepreneurial Solar and BESS IPP (Independent Power Producer) with a clear mission: to kick carbon off the grid by helping businesses switch to solar and batteries from day one.
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.
Play a key role on the AI transformation of the accounting team
Leading, as a key person toghether with Group Cheif 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.