Business Controller til Flying Tiger Copenhagen, Nordics

Do you know how to oversee the business and financial operations across Nordics countries

Flying Tiger Copenhagen is currently looking for a Business Controller for our Nordic cluster – maybe it’s you!

The Nordic cluster includes Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland; the team consists of highly qualified professionals from various backgrounds in an informal environment. The position will be based in the Copenhagen office, on Strandgade in Christianshavn where we support around 150 stores. You will be referring directly to the Finance Manager, Nordics.

This is the job

As Business Controller Nordics, you will work in close collaboration with Nordic Business Controlling team and Country managers. You will perform financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting and help implementing the overall business plans across the area of responsibility. You will act as a key business partner and you will be accountable for the Nordics’ cluster economic and financial performance. You will maintain open dialogue and communication with the global business in order to create alignment and sharing best practices.

More specifically your responsibilities are:

• Month-end closing tasks and financial reporting
• Support stakeholders with preparation of monthly business reviews (results are shared to our group Chief Retail Officer)
• Preparation of reporting and analysis
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Critical eye for our processes to help push them to the next level
• Support ad-hoc analysis, business cases and strategic decision making

You can expect up to 5 travel days per year to meet your stakeholders across our various markets.

This is you

The preferred candidate has +2 years finance or accounting experience from an international retail business; however, this is not a must.

Our expectations:

• You have a M.Sc. in Finance / Economics or similar
• You are an experienced user in Excel and have strong skills in Microsoft Office package. You will work with data in various forms and formats so you know how to organize and analyze information efficiently
• You are an effective communicator with strong critical thinking skills
• You hold a business level proficiency in spoken and written English and in Swedish or Danish 

As a person, you are positive, dynamic and easy to work with. You have a service minded approach, and at the same time you know how to challenge your stakeholders.

This is us

Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a company with strong values founded in Scandinavian culture. We want to be fun and relevant, and we put our heart into everything we do. If this resonates with you, hurry up and apply – we can’t wait to hear from you!

Flying Tiger Copenhagen offers:

•                    Probably the best location - in the heart of Copenhagen

•                    Attractive pension

•                    Private health insurance - also including children

•                    Flexibility with the possibility of working from home

•                    Fun and dynamic culture

•                    Social workplace with parties, Friday bars, staff club etc.

•                    International work environment founded in Scandinavian culture

•                    Canteen with both breakfast and lunch - and a lot of cake

•                    And much more…

If this resonates with you, hurry up and apply through the link in the job ad. We will be talking to candidates on an ongoing basis, so hurry up and show us what you’ve got – we can’t wait to meet you! Please refrain from writing a cover letter but input a few lines in your resume about your motivation.

Did you know

We take climate change very seriously and work very hard to minimize our carbon footprint. We do this by buying less plastic and more renewable materials (everything which grows) – and we also want to make sure that all stores are run on renewable energy. We walk the talk – and make sure that what we do is validated by external experts, in the Science Based Targets initiative. You can read more about our work with climate action here https://flyingtiger.com/pages/sustainability-eco-friendly