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Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation.

We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Job Description

The Heat business within Business Area (BA) Customers & Solutions develops, operates, maintains and optimizes the full value chain of heating and cooling networks and efficient heat and power production to serve customers and society with reliable heat and electricity in the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

We aim to grow by delighting our customers and being a preferred partner to cities and other stakeholders. We strive to provide efficient, climate-friendly solutions to the energy transition. While doing this we will focus on healthy cash flows, an excellent safety record and high reliability of production and supply.

The BA Business Control department is, amongst others, responsible for supporting the Business Area with suitable steering models, business analyses and financial management information, in close cooperation with the management team of the BA and controlling departments of the business units.

In order to drive, coordinate and execute the financial processes, a strong cooperation with the operational departments and staff functions (like Group Finance, HR, Asset Management, Business Development and Procurement) is necessary.

This contributes to a dynamic and diversified working environment.

Your job as Business Controller

As Business Controller for Operational Unit (OU) Projects you will be responsible to develop and support Projects in relation to all Finance and Controlling related matters by acting as a financial business partner.

To drive business planning and coordinate and execute the investment planning process, a strong cooperation between both operational and staff functions is necessary. This contributes to a dynamic and diversified working environment.

Your main responsibilities

• Provide departments and project managers within the OU with relevant reliable financial information, business analysis and proactively support and challenge your colleagues to reach business objectives;
• Support the controlling team in analyzing business performance, identifying improvement opportunities and corrective actions and driving performance;
• Steer the business planning process including target setting, follow-up through reporting with a focus on the gaps between realization and targets, forecasting and corrective measures to meet plan;
• Support investment planning, portfolio value analysis, legal reporting requirements;
• Participate in the monthly management reporting process.

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar position;
• Strong financial and analytical skills;
• Experience in investment environments and project controlling;
• Knowledge and experience with consolidation software (Cognos, other) and SAP;
• Experience in driving and coordinating improvements of controlling processes;
• A strong command of English, both verbally and written.

Your personal skills

• Ability to work in large and complex organizations and to manage internal and external stakeholders effectively;
• Strong commitment on continuous personal and business improvement;
• Pro-active and transparent;
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work across international cultures;
• Strong team player.

Location

Amsterdam, London or Stockholm.

Additional Information

Our offer

Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.

You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information

We welcome your application in English, no later than 5th May . We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Alisa Roo - [email protected]

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity.

Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall.

The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

Trade union representatives in Sweden:

Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto (SEKO), Jens Morell (Unionen).

To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00.

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed.

If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!