Head of Financial Controlling

Företag Lantmännen Cerealia
Första ansökningsdag 2025-09-26
Sista ansökningsdag 2025-10-30
Plats Stockholm County

Our mission is to become the Nordic region’s leading food company, and we want you to be a part of our journey! Are you an experienced professional within finance and group accounting who thrives in building strong processes and ensuring financial excellence across reporting, consolidation, treasury and internal control? Do you have the ability to operate in a multinational environment and be the natural go-to expert when complex financial questions arise? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Lantmännen Cerealia for a Head of Financial Controlling to join us at our office in Stockholm. This is a permanent position, reporting to the CFO of Lantmännen Cerealia.

As a business, Lantmännen Cerealia is on an exciting transformation journey with a clear direction. We have a revenue of approximately 5.5 billion SEK across five countries, 30+ export markets, and 12 production sites. Our values – Drive, Holistic View, and Openness – are our guiding stars, as we combine strong business focus with people at heart.

Working in Cerealia as Head of Financial Controlling provides great opportunities to influence the future development of the business through financial excellence, compliance, and process leadership. You will also be part of the Cerealia Finance Leadership Team, where you will work alongside highly engaged colleagues and be part of the Lantmännen Group Finance community. You will also have personal responsibility for one Financial Controller.

This is what you will do

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated professional to take responsibility for Cerealia’s financial controlling agenda. In this role, you will ensure high-quality financial reporting, consolidation, treasury, tax, and internal control processes across the division. You will also be the trusted advisor and key contact for all finance-related matters in your scope.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Secure accurate and timely group accounting and consolidation, ensuring full compliance with IFRS and group policies.
  • Drive the monthly and annual reporting processes, delivering high-quality reports and analyses.
  • Lead treasury operations, including hedging, liquidity management, and capital structure optimization.
  • Oversee tax compliance and internal control frameworks, ensuring robust governance.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for countries, group functions, and external stakeholders in financial reporting, treasury, and hedging matters.
  • Contribute to M&A activities, supporting due diligence, integration, and reporting processes.
  • Continue developing financial processes and guidelines, building on the foundations already established and driving continuous improvement.

You have:

  • An academic degree within business administration or accounting.
  • Extensive experience in group accounting, consolidation, treasury, tax, and internal control.
  • Solid expertise in IFRS and external reporting requirements.
  • Proven experience in building and developing financial processes, ideally in a multinational group setting.
  • Strong professional skills from industries such as FMCG or production in an international environment.
  • Experience from and ability to navigate and influence in a multicountry organization with a group company
  • Excellent communication skills in English and preferably Swedish, both written and spoken.

You are:

  • Structured, detail-oriented, and analytical, with the ability to ensure both accuracy and high quality in financial reporting.
  • A confident leader who can provide clear direction while adapting leadership style to different individuals and situations.
  • You empower, involve and influence others to create strong business results
  • Communicative and approachable – the natural point of contact for colleagues and stakeholders on complex financial matters.
  • Committed to agreed goals and take ownership for decisions and results.
  • Driven, persistent, and solution-oriented, with the ability to both resolve backlogs and develop long-term structures.
  • Make sense of complex and high quantity information to understand business impact and effectively solve problems.
  • Collaborative and relationship-oriented, with the ability to build strong networks across a large and complex organization.

What we offer you
Lantmännen is a large international group and has a unique breadth in our operations. This means that we can offer development opportunities with various focuses for both specialists and generalists within different companies and industries in more than 20 countries. We actively work with internal mobility and want to contribute to employees' development and engagement every day. Together we reimagine the world of grain!

Sounds interesting?

We hope so! You apply for the position online, preferably as soon as possible but no later than 30/9. In your application, you have the opportunity to add your CV or LinkedIn profile.

For a more objective and inclusive recruitment process, we do not accept personal letters but instead ask you to answer selection questions relevant to the position. The recruitment process includes both psychometric tests and competency-based interviews, with the aim of promoting a fair evaluation for all candidates. At Lantmännen, it is important that everyone has equal opportunities for employment and development within the group.

As a final candidate, a background check will be conducted through our supplier ToFindOut. If you have any questions about the position or the recruitment process, you are warmly welcome to contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Johanna Lindfors at johanna.lindfors@lantmannen.com We look forward to receiving your application!

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Johanna Lindfors
johanna.lindfors@lantmannen.com