Financial Controller – Process Expert

About the job

This is a unique opportunity to shape and improve how finance processes are performed across our Rock Tools division. Working at the intersection of operational finance, continuous improvement, and business performance, you play a key role in shaping how finance processes evolve across the organization.

You develop and standardize ways of working within the general accounting area while ensuring compliance with accounting principles, policies, and service level agreements. You balance operational responsibilities with continuous improvement initiatives and play a key role in enhancing finance processes, systems, and collaboration across the organization.

Job responsibilities

• Develop and improve finance processes, ways of working, and controls to support harmonization, automation, and compliance.
• Drive and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the finance organization.
• Perform advanced accounting activities, including financial reporting, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Participate in financial system testing, including designing and executing test cases that support process development.
• Analyze improvement opportunities, follow up on outcomes, and identify corrective and preventive actions.
• Coach and train finance colleagues and stakeholders in accounting standards, best practices, and finance processes.

Location and flexibility

The position is based in Sandviken and follows a hybrid working model with flexibility to combine office and remote work.

Your profile

You bring a strong background in accounting, financial controlling, and financial reporting combined with an interest in process development and continuous improvement. Comfortable working across functions, you enjoy creating structure, improving ways of working, and collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders.

Your background includes

• Experience driving process improvements, automation initiatives, and organizational change.
• Experience working with financial systems, testing activities, and process development.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Fluency in English and Swedish.

Success in this position comes from taking initiative, identifying opportunities, and driving activities forward independently. You maintain a broad perspective, understand how processes connect across the business, and combine analytical thinking with a solution-oriented mindset.

Our culture

Our role is clear – through every action, every day, we make the shift and advance the world through engineering. We believe in an inclusive, equal and open-minded culture, and we nurture our diversities to form a solid foundation for achieving great results.

Add fair and rewarding benefits, as well as many different career options.

Are you intrigued? Visit our website , LinkedIn or Facebook page to get to know us further.

Contact information

For further information about this position, please contact Emma Cavanagh Bergman, hiring manager, emma.cavanagh_bergman@sandvik.com

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Union contacts – Sweden

• Cecilia Mickelsson, Unionen, +46 (0)70-616 90 89
• Erik Kjerf, Akademikerföreningen, +46 (0)70-616 36 72
• Olle Hansson, Ledarna, +46 (0)70-650 57 43

Recruitment Specialist: Lisbeth Häggström

How to apply

We have an ongoing selection process in this recruitment, please send your application as soon as possible, and no later than September 22, 2026. Click apply and include your resume and cover letter in English. Please note that we don’t accept applications by e-mail.

Job ID: R0096500. We aim for an open and fair recruitment process and use different tools to ensure an objective assessment. Later in the process, you may be invited to complete a personality and logic test. To learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our career site or contact HR Services at hrservices.sweden@sandvik.com.

Business area

Mining is a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, parts, service, digital solutions and sustainability-driving technologies for the mining and construction industries. Applications include rock drilling, rock cutting, loading and hauling, tunneling and quarrying. In 2025, sales were approximately SEK 63 billion with about 18,400 employees.