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Business & System Controller
Stena Line
Source: Arbetsformedlingen Platsbanken · original listing ↗
Source date: 11/9/2026
About this role
Are you motivated by combining finance, business understanding and systems to create clear insights and support better decision-making? We are looking for a Business & System Controller to join our Business Control team. In this role, you will support Group-wide financial reporting, planning and analysis while contributing to the development of tools and processes that enable better business decisions. Some of your key responsibilities: - Maintain and validate central planning assumptions and calculations, ensuring accurate and reliable planning across the Group. - Coordinate and quality-assure central postings, allocations and intercompany reconciliations, ensuring correct legal-entity treatment and complete inclusion of all Group companies’ revenues and costs in closing and planning. - Own the Group-wide capital cost calculation process, including planning and follow-up, ensuring consistent accounting treatment across closing, budgets, forecasts and long-term planning. - Support legal-entity and management planning for the Stena Line Group, including reporting to Stena AB, and coordinate budgets, forecasts and long-term planning together with Business Analysts and Group Accounting. - Administer the FP&A system, including planning versions, actuals transitions, reporting controls, user support and training, while managing system access according to the planning schedule and governance framework. - Perform financial analyses across business areas, assess Group performance, respond to ad hoc planning and reporting requests, and create presentation material at Group level. - Ensure plans are complete, consistent and realistic by following up on missing information, coordinating corrective actions and safeguarding timely delivery. - Participate in projects and contribute to improvements in planning models, reports and processes, while identifying and resolving data quality issues, deviations and process risks. What you will experience As a Stena Line employee in Sweden, we offer you an additional benefits package consisting of travel discounts, health allowance, well-being activities, access to a benefits portal, and much more. Based in our Gothenburg office, this role follows an office-first approach, allowing you to work closely with a collaborative team of 7. Who are you? At Stena Line, your personal qualities matter just as much as your skills and expertise. Regardless of the role, being welcoming, caring, and reliable guides you in your everyday work and the challenges you face. To thrive in this role, you enjoy connecting business needs, financial insights, and system capabilities to create solutions that support better decision-making. You are naturally curious and comfortable diving into operational details while maintaining a holistic view of how they impact the wider business. Complex challenges motivate you, and you have a talent for breaking them down into structured analyses and practical solutions. You are skilled at translating business and finance requirements into system designs, models, and reporting structures aligned with governance and data standards. With a pragmatic and hands-on approach, you confidently challenge incomplete information, ask the right questions, and drive clarity when needed. Collaboration comes naturally, and you build trustful relationships across functions, countries, and teams. You enjoy coordinating cross-functional processes, keeping stakeholders aligned, and ensuring deliveries are completed within agreed timelines. Finally, you are an effective communicator who can present clear, structured messages that make complex information easy to understand for a variety of stakeholders. Qualifications: - A university degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. - Several years of experience within Finance, Accounting, or Business Control, including hands-on involvement in period-end closing, central postings, intercompany reconciliations, and Group-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes. - A solid understanding of financial statements, including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow analysis. - Experience working with Anaplan as an FP&A platform, or similar planning and performance management systems, preferably in a Model Builder capacity. - Experience in capital cost calculations and related accounting and financial planning processes. - Proven experience in establishing and executing data validation, controls, and reconciliations to ensure high data quality and accuracy. - Practical experience applying AI tools to support analysis, reporting, or process improvement. - Expertise in Power BI or comparable business intelligence and data visualization platforms. - Advanced Excel skills and very good knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite. - Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken; fluency in Swedish is preferred. Interested? This is a full-time, permanent position based in Gothenburg within our Group Business Control department. To apply, please register your profile and send in your application in English as soon as possible but no later than November 23, 2026. We are having an ongoing selection, so do not wait with your application. To ensure the secure and structured processing of your personal data, we only accept applications submitted through our online recruitment system.