Finance Director, Burson

The role

Lead finance across the Swedish market, with oversight of Norway, for a business of about $10m revenue. The role covers planning, reporting, forecasting, controls, compliance and commercial finance support, and reports to the Norway and Sweden Market Leader and the EMEA CFO.

What you will do

• Lead finance across Sweden and Norway, with strong governance and commercial discipline
• Act as a trusted finance partner to market leadership
• Own budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
• Provide accurate financial reporting including revenue, profitability, margin, cash flow and working capital
• Translate financial data into commercial insight for leaders
• Partner with client and business leads on pricing, profitability and resourcing
• Oversee month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes
• Ensure integrity of financial records, reporting and controls
• Lead audit, tax, statutory reporting and external advisor relationships
• Lead, support and develop the local finance function

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in senior finance, financial control, FP&A or commercial finance roles
• Strong understanding of financial management in a smaller or mid-sized market
• Proven experience partnering with senior leaders to improve financial performance
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis and performance management experience
• Good understanding of accounting, controls, audit, tax and compliance requirements across Sweden
• Experience working with regional or group finance teams
• Strong analytical skills
• High level of integrity, sound judgement and confidence in constructive challenge
• Strong communication skills to influence senior stakeholders
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Exposure to Norway or wider Nordic markets
• Swedish language skills
• Norwegian language skills or experience working with Norway

Before you apply

• Fluent English is essential

About the company

Burson is the global communications leader that helps brands and businesses build reputation as a competitive advantage. It is part of WPP, the creative transformation company.