Financial Controller for a Sustainability SaaS
Are you a driven finance professional eager to build and improve things? Do you want to be part of a global, fast-growing SaaS tech company on a mission to help reduce global carbon emissions? We'd love to hear from you!
We are looking for a Financial Controller to help further develop and enhance our accounting and reporting structure and processes to support our continued growth at One Click LCA group. You'll be joining a supportive, effective, and mission-oriented team in a flexible, friendly and international work environment.
This is a full-time, permanent position is available on a hybrid basis for candidates based in Helsinki.
What you will do:
- Financial Reporting:
- Oversee the preparation and presentation of financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for management and stakeholders.
- Ensure that all financial statements and reports are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Internal Controls and Compliance:
- Establish and enforce financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal financial regulations.
- Manage internal and external audits, ensuring prompt and accurate completion.
- Team Leadership:
- Lead and mentor the accounting team, including hiring, training, and performance management.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment within the finance department.
- Cash Flow Management:
- Monitor and manage the company’s cash flow to ensure sufficient liquidity.
- Oversee accounts receivable and payable functions to maintain healthy cash flow.
- Tax Management:
- Ensure timely and accurate filing of all tax returns.
- Coordinate with external tax advisors to optimize tax planning and compliance.
- Strategic Influence:
- Assist the CFO in developing long-term financial strategies aligned with company goals.
- Participate in mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and integration processes.
- Risk Management:
- Identify and manage financial risks, including foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and credit risk.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven experience in preparing consolidated financial statements for group companies and managing audit processes for these entities. You will be responsible for preparing the financial statements for One Click LCA Group and handeling the audit process.
- Several years of solid experience in accounting and month-end closing processes.
- Fluency in English, both spoken and written, as it will be the primary language of communication.
- Background in Big 4 audit firms (preferred).
- Experience in team leadership, or, if no formal leadership role, experience in leading projects or initiatives and getting others on board.
- Experience with system implementations, ideally for a multi-entity group; experience with Netsuite is a plus.
- A hands-on, proactive approach, with a strong desire to collaborate closely with the team - not just as a leader, but also as an active contributor.
- A strong sense of ownership and responsibility, with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.
- The ability to communicate effectively with senior management.
What we offer:
- Work in a growing business that helps bring about a zero-carbon future.
- Challenges, substantial responsibility and the chance to own things, and see the results of your work directly.
- A dynamic, friendly, motivated and diverse team of top-notch professionals.
- Great colleagues and fun social events.
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working supported
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for professional development.
- Commuting, lunch, sports-culture and bicycle benefits.
Interested?
We are waiting for your application until 9 February 2025. Applications are reviewed continuously so please apply swiftly. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Helsinki HQ
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
How do we do this
We train, equip and support the makers of a zero-carbon future to tackle low-carbon design, planning, manufacturing, and procurement using life-cycle assessment to achieve zero.
This is how we do it:
- We train everyone in the world to life-cycle assessment via One Click LCA Academy for free.
- We provide software tools to decarbonize any project or product anywhere in the world.
- We create free resources and policy tools to power all the makers of zero-carbon future.
- We aim to power one million users by 2035.
How we live our purpose in our work
Maximizing our decarbonization impacts
- We’re training tens of thousands of people for free annually via One Click LCA Academy.
- We provide One Click LCA Planetary, a free embodied carbon software for everyone.
- We author free policy papers and best practice guidelines for governments and businesses.
- Supporting decarbonization outside our direct business
- We invested over 150 000 EUR in the creation of a surplus construction materials marketplace business to reduce site wastage and advanced regulations supporting this activity.
- We have invested 150 000 EUR in the construction of new primary wind power in Finland.
- We donate annually to a number of sustainability NGOs in line with our mission.
Minimizing our internal carbon impacts
- We’re a proud signatory of the World Green Building Council Net Zero commitment and shall achieve zero carbon facilities by 2030.
- We’ve invested in primary wind power generation capacity to power our entire operations.
- We minimize travel emissions by supporting remote work and encouraging public transport.
- We do not serve meat in any company events or dinners and use plant-based milk.
- We operate a paperless business.
Company culture
- We have a very supportive, highly expert, and friendly team of colleagues.
- We leave staff a great deal of autonomy & freedom; you can get done what needs to get done.
- We have a low hierarchy and support an open flow of information.
- Our team is highly international and represents well over 20 nationalities.
- We work on the same mission together with our customers to create a zero-carbon future.
Helsinki HQ
Join a supportive, effective and mission-oriented team
Work with cutting edge tools and a team of world-class professionals and leading organisations to solve one of the world`s biggest challenges - decarbonizing buildings and construction, responsible for 40 % of global carbon emissions.
About One Click LCA
One Click LCA is a Helsinki-based tech company decarbonizing construction and manufacturing with world-leading, easy-to-use, and automated life-cycle assessment (LCA) to calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of building, infrastructure, and renovation projects — as well as construction and other manufactured products. It also enables manufacturers to generate and publish third-party verified EPDs and allows assessment of circularity, life-cycle cost, and soon also biodiversity.
One Click LCA is used in +170 countries. Its decarbonization platform includes a unique global database with +250,000 LCA datasets, and it supports +80 standards and certifications, including LEED, BREEAM, GRESB and other national regulations.
One Click LCA was founded in Finland in 2001 and has a team of +230 people on all continents.
Learn more at: www.oneclicklca.com
Financial Controller for a Sustainability SaaS
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