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Your New Role

We are currently seeking a driven and business-oriented Controller for an exciting assignment within the grocery retail industry. Here, you will have the opportunity to work broadly with financial follow-up, analysis, and decision support in a high-tempo organization with a strong focus on development.

In this role, you will work closely with the business operations, contributing qualified financial analysis and monitoring. You will become a key part of creating insights, driving improvements, and supporting management and executives in their decision-making processes.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Ongoing analysis of revenues, personnel costs, and other expenses

• Identification of trends, risks, and deviations

• Responsibility for monthly closing, including accruals and quality assurance

• Ensuring traceability, transparency, and quality in closing documentation

• Providing clear and pedagogical explanations for financial results

• Conducting variance analysis against budget and forecast

• Identifying structural changes and one-off effects

• Actively contributing to budgeting and forecasting processes

• Preparing decision-making materials and acting as an advisor to the business

This is an opportunity for those who wish to work in a business-critical role with significant responsibility and the ability to make an impact. You will become an important part of a developing organization where your competence contributes to better decisions and increased profitability.

Company Presentation

Our client is one of the largest players in the Nordic grocery retail sector, offering a broad range of activities including stores, pharmacies, banking, and real estate. Regardless of which part of the business you work in, you contribute to simplifying people's daily lives and making a difference in society.

Key Information

Assignment Scope: Full-time, 100%
Employment Type: Fixed-term contract as a consultant via JobBusters.
Start Date: Immediate.
End Date: 2026-10-31, with possibility of extension.
In Your Application: Ensure it is clearly stated that you are qualified according to the client's desired qualifications.

To be successful in this role, you need

• Experience from market-, service-, or project-intensive operations

• Very good knowledge of monthly closing

• Experience with budgeting and forecasting work

• Strong competence in variance and result analysis

• Ability to quickly get up to speed with new operations and systems

• Experience working closely with business and management

• Good system skills, including financial systems, BI tools, and Excel

• Meritorious: Experience from retail or food-related operations

We Offer

• Secure employment with collective agreements, insurance, and occupational pension

• Wellness allowance and employee discounts/offers via Benifex (e.g., health, leisure, transport, and healthcare)

• Flexible pension and access to Lifeplan pension services

• Extra compensation during parental leave

• Occupational health services

• Long-term assignments and personal contact with your consultant manager

• Opportunity to build valuable experience, networks, and future development

Welcome to Apply

We review applications on an ongoing basis. As processes in the consulting world often move quickly, the position may be filled before the final application date – so do not wait to submit your application!

You do not need to write a cover letter; instead, we ask you to answer the selection questions when applying.