Project Financial Controller
Be the financial force behind our solar and battery assets—powering performance, driving returns, and shaping a cleaner energy future!
Are you a finance professional eager to make a real impact on the energy transition?
At Alight, you’ll help drive the financial performance of solar and battery energy storage (BESS) assets while contributing to a cleaner energy system.
Founded in 2013, Alight has been at the forefront of the Nordic solar industry, delivering some of the region’s largest solar installations, pioneering hybrid solar and battery storage projects, and bringing innovative financing solutions to market. Today, we’re a leading independent power producer (IPP) of solar and BESS in the Nordics, with ambitious plans to grow our portfolio and accelerate the transition to a fossil-free energy system.
We’re looking for a Project Financial Controller to join our Financial Asset Management team and help ensure our growing portfolio delivers strong financial performance throughout the asset lifecycle.
You’ll collaborate closely with colleagues across Technical Asset Management, Procurement & Construction, and Investment & Finance. From financial close and construction to long-term operations, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership, improve processes, and influence how we manage our assets as the business grows.
Your impact
As Project Financial Controller, you’ll take financial ownership of your assigned portfolio of solar PV and BESS assets. You’ll ensure sound financial control, reliable reporting, and compliance with contractual obligations and financing agreements, helping each asset perform at its best.
This is a hands-on role combining financial management, analytical problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration. Your responsibilities will include:
Drive financial performance: Monitor asset performance against budgets and forecasts, analysing profit and loss, operating expenditure, contractual obligations, and claims.
Support financial reporting and control: Oversee monthly financial closings, invoicing, and payment processes, and prepare monthly and quarterly reports with clear variance analysis and actionable insights.
Manage risks and revenue requirements: Ensure compliance with the contractual and regulatory conditions underpinning each asset’s revenue streams and financing arrangements.
Support investor returns: Coordinate investor distributions and help optimize returns within the framework of financing agreements and compliance requirements.
Analyse operational performance: Investigate production performance, liquidated damages, insurance claims, and operating expenditure to identify financial risks and opportunities for improvement.
Manage customer and stakeholder relationships: Ensure clear, timely financial communication with customers and internal stakeholders.
Support annual reporting and audits: Contribute to the preparation of annual accounts and coordinate information required for audit processes.
Support portfolio growth: Help onboard new assets by defining service provisions, establishing appropriate pricing, and ensuring robust financial models and controls are in place.
Keep stakeholders informed: Communicate asset performance to senior management, investors, and the Board through structured reports and ad hoc analyses.
Improve how we work: Identify opportunities to strengthen financial processes, reporting, and automation as Alight’s portfolio expands.
We’re looking for you
You’re an analytical and commercially minded finance professional who enjoys taking ownership and turning financial data into meaningful insights. You thrive in a dynamic environment where financial, contractual, and operational considerations intersect, and you enjoy the variety that comes with managing a growing portfolio. You’re comfortable balancing planned activities with ad hoc requests, adapting to changing priorities, and responding flexibly when new needs arise.
You’re proactive, structured, and curious. You challenge existing ways of working, look for smarter ways to solve problems, and enjoy collaborating across teams to drive performance and create value. You combine a structured approach with the flexibility to think on your feet, navigate unexpected challenges, and deliver valuable insights even when priorities shift.
What you bring
Around 3–5 years of experience in project controlling, investment finance, structured finance, corporate finance, or a related field.
Experience in management accounting, financial performance analysis, and project or asset financial reporting.
An understanding of project finance structures and financing documentation.
Experience managing financial processes or transactions from analysis through execution.
Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial models.
The ability to interpret, present, and visualize financial data clearly and effectively.
Curiosity about AI and automation, and an interest in exploring how tools such as Claude can improve financial processes.
Fluency in written and spoken English. Swedish language skills are a plus, but not a requirement.
Experience in the renewable energy sector is a plus.
Sounds like a fit? Apply today!
- Department
- Finance
- Location
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Colleagues
What's in it for you?
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Find your passion and purpose
At Alight, you’ll make a real, tangible impact on a global scale by accelerating the transition to a fossil fuel-free world. Your work will be more than a job; it will be a meaningful contribution to ensuring the sustainability of our planet.
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Work from anywhere in Europe
We’re proud to have a flat and autonomous organizational culture where everyone takes accountability for their own work. You'll have the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in Europe, or you can decide to work hybrid/fully onsite at one of our offices in Stockholm, Madrid, Gothenburg, Paris or Malmö. We’ll support your home office setup, including subsidies for equipment like adjustable desks and office chairs.
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Collaborate with a talented, diverse team
To ensure we attract the best talent out there, we don't limit ourselves to a specific location. Alighters are based across Europe and our diverse backgrounds and skills complement each other well.
We know that having a diverse team drives better collective decisions and superior business performance. Today our gender split is 44/56, with 15 nationalities and employees in 6 countries.
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Be part of Alight's success
At Alight, you’ll be a part of an entrepreneurial culture in which you’re encouraged to “think like an owner,” which means that we trust you to call the shots and excel in your role. Many Alighters are also shareholders, and we believe in giving our employees incentives to create the best possible impact.
Historically we’ve regularly had warrant/option programs that give our employees the option to own a part of Alight. We also give our employees the option to buy shares when the opportunity arises (e.g. when any of our owners sells shares, we're not a listed company).
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Recharge when you need it
As an Alighter, you’ll have 30 days of paid vacation and the option to exchange public holiday days for other days off. We also offer market-leading insurance programs for all our employees, together with an annual wellness allowance of €500 (5000 SEK).
At our HQ in Stockholm, we also have weekly activities like lunch runs and Thursday yoga sessions.
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Have fun together with a fantastic team
While we take our role in driving the green transition seriously, we know how to have fun. We believe that a positive team spirit enhances our collective impact. Some examples of planned activities are Friday breakfast every second week, Guest lecturers with dinner, team dinners, and sports activities. But there are also a lot of spontaneous activities driven by our employees!
Each quarter we also have "Alight Next," our company-wide meetup, a two-day strategy day with workshops, lectures, and team building in which we focus on the next quarter. We also always have some fun activities planned during those meetup days, examples being ski trips, sailing, dinners, and parties
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Grow professionally and personally
We’re committed to helping you grow and embrace new areas of responsibility, whether vertically or horizontally.
It’s common for our team members to be promoted to leadership roles or transition into entirely new domains. We have structured career coaching, internal training programs, performance reviews, and goal-setting frameworks to help you develop your career.
About Alight
At Alight, we’re on a mission to kick carbon off the grid by helping energy-intensive businesses switch to solar.
We develop, own, and operate onsite and offsite solar projects across Europe and sell clean energy to businesses at a low, fixed cost backed by a power purchase agreement (PPA), always independent of government funding or subsidies. By 2030, we aim to have an installed capacity of at least 5 GW, paving the way for a more sustainable future.
Join us fully remote or from our offices!