Financial Controller at Chalmers

Do you want to work in a stimulating academic environment where your financial expertise makes a difference?

The Finance function at Chalmers is a central part of our operations and contributes to ensuring a professional management of financial control and administration. Here you will have the opportunity to work closely with both researchers and management in a dynamic and developing environment. We are looking for an engaged Financial Controller who wants to be part of our team at Chalmers – a workplace where development, quality, and diversity are at the core.

About us

The Finance function at Chalmers is characterized by a professional management of our financial control and financial administration. The function is represented both in the operational work at our 13 departments and in the university-wide management with its support organizations.

This position is located at our central operational support, in the Planning, Analysis, and Finance department within the Operational Controlling unit.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has an academic degree in finance or IT, vocational training in finance or equivalent
• At least 5 years of experience in qualified financial work including accounting, budgeting, and closing work
• Has experience in project management and project accounting.
• Is familiar with IT-related cost models and understands complex project environments.
• Has good analytical skills and is confident in communicating financial insights to various stakeholders.
• Has experience working with financial and administrative support systems
• Is proactive, structured, and enjoys working in a dynamic organization.
• Has a good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish and English

It is an advantage if you also have:

• Experience in operational project accounting, financial control, and financial administration within IT
• Experience in implementing new working methods regarding processes and routines

To thrive and succeed in the role, we believe you are:

• A person with high integrity.
• Analytical and meticulous.
• Collaborative and good at building strong relationships with colleagues.
• Structured with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize effectively.

What the role entails

We are looking for a structured, driven, and analytical Financial Controller who wants to take a comprehensive approach to the finances within our development projects, IT management, and our IT department. The role is central to ensuring financial governance and transparency in an organization that is in constant change. The position is partially new and is a fixed-term employment with the possibility of extension.

Your responsibilities

• Responsible for project and portfolio finance in development projects.
• Ensure budgeting, forecasting, and follow-up for the IT management's finances.
• Support and analyze the finances for the IT department.
• Develop and improve financial processes and reporting structures.
• Be a strategic support to project managers, IT managers, and management in financial matters.

Main tasks:

• Advisor in financial matters to managers, project leaders
• Ensure good accounting in accordance with internal and external regulations
• Responsible for budget, follow-up, forecasting, and analysis of projects and operations
• Contribute to the development of Chalmers' financial processes within the IT field.

We offer

• A key role in an organization that focuses on development and digitalization.
• The opportunity to influence and improve financial processes.
• An engaged team and a work environment where collaboration and innovation are at the center.

Chalmers as a workplace

At Chalmers, we value openness, respect, participation, diversity, and quality – something that permeates our work environment and our approach to employees. We offer a stimulating workplace in an academic environment, where both students and employees are driven to create value for a sustainable future.

We work broadly with gender equality projects, such as the GENIE initiative for gender equality for excellence. Gender equality and diversity are important foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Benefits for our employees:

• Flexibility to work remotely based on the needs of the organization.
• Up to seven weeks of vacation per year.
• Collective agreements that include parental pay, sick pay supplements, medication costs, salary exchange, pension, earned days, and flexible working hours.
• Health and wellness benefits as well as a wellness hour per week during paid working hours.

Here you can read more about our benefits (#) and what it is like to work at Chalmers (#).

Employment form

Fixed-term employment full-time for one year

Application

• Answer our selection questions when you click on "Apply" instead of attaching a personal letter – we do not consider attached personal letters.
• Attach your CV in PDF format.
• Label the application documents with your first and last name.

In a possible interview, you may also be asked to complete a "case".

Please note: The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete. Incomplete applications and applications sent via email will not be considered.

Application deadline: 2026-01-31

If you have questions, please contact
Maria Hallin
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Welcome with your application!

Chalmers declines all offers of additional job advertising or recruitment support in connection with this recruitment.

Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg conducts research and education in engineering and natural sciences at a high international level. The university has 3,100 employees, 10,000 students, and educates engineers, architects, and maritime officers. With scientific excellence as a foundation, Chalmers develops competence and technical solutions for a sustainable world. Through global engagement and entrepreneurial spirit, we create innovation power, in close collaboration with the rest of society. Chalmers was founded in 1829 and still has the same motto: Avancez – forward.