Senior Financial Controller

Shape Our Narrative. Advance Engagement. Drive Change. 

Stora Enso is a global organisation with operations, sales, and supply chains all over the world. Our purpose—"Do good for people and the planet. Replace non-renewable materials with renewable products"—drives everything we do. We believe that everything made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow, and we are committed to accelerating the transition to a circular bioeconomy. 

Contribute to a Nature Positive future 

We are looking for a Senior Financial Controller and Team Lead to join our team in Record to Report Tower to cover Sweden entities. In this role, you will take ownership of key financial processes and lead a team to ensure accuracy, compliance, and strategic insight. You will be responsible for performing general accounting activities, including the maintenance and reconciliation of all accounting records such as general, property and cost accounts.

The position involves designing and implementing budgetary and internal control systems, preparing financial reports for management and shareholders, and ensuring the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles. You will prepare, record, analyse and report accounting transactions, provide financial statistics and long-term earnings forecasts to support strategic planning, and direct the budgetary planning and reporting process.

Additionally, you will develop and maintain reporting, planning and budgeting systems, prepare financial and management reports, and present findings and recommendations to senior management

Key responsibilities include:

• Mentoring the Financial Controller Community, coordinating work from Shared Service Center in Tallinn and Ostrava and provide guidance to team members.
• Leading and actively participating in various accounting projects to drive process improvements
• Steering end-to-end accounting processes to ensure compliance with high-quality service standards and reporting requirements
• Ensuring fulfillment of local statutory and tax reporting requirements, including annual reports, tax declarations, statistics, and transfer pricing documentation
• Analyzing and auditing the correctness and completeness of financial figures
• Coordinating IAS 19 Pension reporting for Swedish entities
• Acting as the main point of contact on Company in scope for local auditors, tax authorities, and other authorities, as well as internal stakeholders such as Group Tax Services, Business Units, Group Accounting, and Reporting
• Supporting the setup of Sweden's legal structure and involvement in strategic decisions such as equity injections, dividends, and changes in legal structure, with the assistance of the tax team for specific tasks

You will report to the Accounting Director and collaborate with other Accounting teams to maintain consistency across all regions where we operate, ensuring a seamless experience for our clients and upholding our commitment to excellence.
 

Who are we looking for? 

We are looking for a highly skilled professional with strong expertise in accounting and leadership. The ideal candidate will have a solid academic background and extensive experience in financial processes, combined with excellent communication and analytical abilities.

To succeed in this role, you believe that you have:

• University degree in Accounting or other relevant field of expertise
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant working experience
• Extensive knowledge of local GAAP, IFRS, and end-to-end general accounting concepts and processes
• Advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems
• High skills in dealing with financial and numeric data
• Focus on value creation and process improvement
• Strong people management and leadership skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to build relationships between teams
• Fluency in Swedish and English
• Good knowledge of SAP and OneStream

What we offer  
By joining us, you will contribute towards a more sustainable world, as we play a leading role in accelerating the transition to a circular bioeconomy. Our values are to "Lead and Do what's right", we expect high performance, speed and agility in every part of our organisation. Safety and wellbeing are our top priorities, every day.​ We inspire you to lead your growth and to set the ambition high. 

How can you apply for this role?  
Submit your application through our recruitment tool. As we are assessing candidates on an ongoing basis, we hope to hear from you as soon as possible but at the latest by December 15 .  

For queries about the open position, contact Anders Andersson, Director Accounting, at Questions regarding the recruitment process can be directed to our People&Culture Partner at

We might also invite you to a video interview and/or aptitude tests. Our recruitment process could include pre-employment actions such as background, reference and health checks as well as a drug test.