Senior Financial Controller
Do you enjoy bringing structure, control and clarity to complex, multi-entity accounting, and want to use those skills to accelerate the transition to renewable energy?
Welcome to Alight! We're an entrepreneurial Solar and BESS IPP (Independent Power Producer) with a clear mission: to kick carbon off the grid by helping businesses switch to solar and batteries from day one.
As a Senior Financial Controller, you will take on a cross-group financial controlling role, ensuring robust, traceable and compliant accounting across all entities and countries in the group. Working closely with the Group Chief Accountant, you will act as a senior advisor and sounding board on complex accounting, tax and structural questions, while also taking ownership of certain entities as part of the wider controlling team.
This role is based at our HQ in central Stockholm, with the flexibility of a hybrid setup.
Your impact
You will play a key role in strengthening financial governance and control across the group by:
Owning group-wide reconciliations, internal control checks and deviation follow-up.
Strengthening accounting robustness, traceability and documentation, including handbooks.
Ensuring consolidation and local GAAP compliance across countries.
Play a key role on the AI transformation of the accounting team
Leading, as a key person toghether with Group Cheif Accountant, the implementation or migration of a consolidation system.
Acting as a senior advisor and sounding board to the Group Chief Accountant on complex accounting, tax and structural questions.
Taking ownership of certain entities, sharing this responsibility with other senior members of the accounting team.
Driving process improvement across AP/payments, salary and expense workflows.
Contributing to tax processes, including VAT and transfer pricing.
Mentoring junior controllers and financial accountants.
Supporting M&A transactions as they arise.
We’re looking for you
You are experienced, structured and comfortable stepping into a senior role working close to the Group Chief Accountant and CFO. You combine a helicopter perspective with strong detail control, and you're driven to build structure and improve processes and systems, not just maintain them. Your career likely started in audit, followed by several years of qualified in-house accounting, ideally including group or multi-entity controlling experience.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
At least 4–5 years of experience in qualified accounting; more is welcome.
Group or multi-entity controlling experience, with a strong grasp of internal control, reconciliations and local GAAP.
Consolidation experience is a strong plus, though not a requirement; exposure to structural complexity, for example in real estate, is an advantage.
Strong accounting and tax competence, with a good understanding of how subsidiary-level accounting connects to the group level.
Process- and improvement-driven, comfortable using AI tools to enhance ways of working.
Fluent in Swedish and English.
Based in or able to work primarily from our Stockholm office, on a hybrid basis.
Sounds like a fit? Apply today
Please note that, due to the summer vacation, we expect to begin interviewing candidates in late July or early August.
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Remote status
- Hybrid
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!