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 drive real impact in the renewable energy transition?
Welcome to Alight — we're accelerating the shift to clean energy by building and operating solar and battery storage (BESS) assets for businesses across Europe. Our approach is financially sound, smart, and scalable — and we're just getting started.
As we grow, we're looking for a Project Financial Controller to help steer the financial success of our renewable energy portfolio. You’ll join a tight-knit financial asset management function (currently a one-person powerhouse) and collaborate closely with our Technical Asset Management, Procurement & Construction, and Investment & Finance teams.
In this role, you’ll be hands-on across the full lifecycle of our solar PV and BESS assets — from financial close and construction to long-term operations. It’s a chance to shape how we manage our assets as we scale, with real ownership, autonomy, and influence.
Your impact
As a Project Financial Controller, you’ll be the financial cornerstone of your assigned portfolio — ensuring each solar and battery storage (BESS) asset performs optimally while staying aligned with investor commitments and regulatory frameworks.
KEY OBJECTIVES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Control the financial performance of assigned renewable energy assets, including financial reporting, contractual obligations, and claims.
- Support in contact with customers, ensuring financial clarity and responsiveness.
- Ensure compliance with conditions necessary to maintain the revenue structures of assigned renewable assets.
- Oversee monthly financial closures, including invoicing and payment processes.
- Support the preparation of annual accounts and facilitate audit processes.
- Support investor distributions with a focus on maximizing returns within the scope of financing agreements and compliance frameworks.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly performance reports, including variance analysis against budgets and profit & loss, and deep dives into production, liquidated damages, insurance claims, and operational expenditure.
- Contribute to the onboarding of new assets, ensuring service provisions are well-defined, appropriately priced, and supported by robust financial models.
- Maintain oversight of all onboarded assets to ensure financial and operational integrity.
- Provide internal reporting on asset performance for senior management, investors, and the Board through structured updates and ad hoc briefings.
We’re looking for you
To be a good fit for this role, we think you thrive in a dynamic, fast-moving environment where financial and operational challenges come together. You bring a structured, analytical mindset and a proactive approach — always looking for smarter ways to drive performance and value.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- ~5 years of experience in finance, with solid experience in project accounting and controlling
- Proven ability to manage transactions from origination through to execution
- Exposure working with financial models and strong analytical capabilities
- Understanding of project finance documentation and structuring
- Experience in management accounting
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel skills
- Knowledge of PowerBI or other data visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker
- Fluency in English and Swedish (written and spoken)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Sounds like a fit? Apply today!
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Colleagues
What's in it for you?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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