Vacant job

Do you want to work in a stimulating academic environment where your financial expertise contributes to research and education?
A larger university is now seeking an experienced Financial Controller with a particular focus on EU-funded activities.

The university's finance function plays a central role in the organization and is responsible for professional financial management, monitoring, and administration. Here, you will have the opportunity to work closely with researchers, managers, and leadership in a knowledge-intensive and developing environment.

The assignment is located at the university's central finance department, within a function that works with operational controlling. The role is a fixed-term consultancy position full-time and is expected to last from 2026-02-01 to 2027-03-31.

As a Financial Controller, you will:

• Have overall coordination responsibility for financial matters related to EU-funded projects
• Act as an advisor to economists, managers, researchers, and support functions on issues related to EU finance and regulations
• Ensure accurate accounting according to internal guidelines and external requirements from the EU and other funders
• Interpret and analyze conditions in contracts and funding decisions
• Coordinate budget, forecast, and year-end work within the area
• Contribute to the development and streamlining of financial processes and routines

Approximately 30% of the assignment also includes other qualified financial work, such as ongoing monitoring, budgeting, and year-end closing within the unit.

We are looking for someone who has:

• A degree in finance, vocational training in finance, or equivalent
• At least 5 years of experience in qualified financial work, such as accounting, budgeting, and year-end closing
• Experience in project accounting for EU-funded activities
• Good knowledge of EU regulations and the ability to set requirements, inform, and coordinate around these
• Experience working in financial and administrative support systems
• Very good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish and English

It is meritorious if you also have:

• Experience in financial work within a university or college
• Experience with financial systems such as Raindance and/or Hypergene

To succeed in this assignment, we see that you are:

• Analytical, meticulous, and structured
• Independent with high integrity
• Collaborative and relationship-building
• Used to handling multiple parallel tasks and prioritizing effectively

The assignment is conducted in an academic environment characterized by openness, quality, and collaboration between finance, research, and management. The university actively works on issues related to equality, diversity, and sustainable development.

As a consultant, you will be offered a qualified assignment in a complex and socially important operation, with the opportunity to contribute to the long-term conditions of research.

• Consultancy assignment
• Full-time
• Fixed-term: 2026-02-01 – 2027-03-31

The application should include:

• CV in PDF format

In this process, we work with ongoing selection and recruitment, which means that the position may be filled before the application deadline. Once you have expressed interest in the position, we will match your application with the position and contact you via email or phone for feedback. If you are a suitable candidate, we will meet for an interview, and during the process, references will be checked and background checks conducted. An interview may include a work-related case.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that the application is complete. Applications should be submitted via the advertisement on OnePartnerGroup's website, as we do not handle applications via email due to GDPR.