Financial Controller

What we offer you

We are looking for a talented and highly motivated Financial Controller in our financial reporting team. You will join an international and dynamic organization on an ambitious journey to strengthen our competitive position as a supplier of low-carbon aluminium.

We offer excellent opportunities for professional development, and a high level of flexibility and responsibility. You will be exposed to senior management and connect with business partners across business units. You will work in a team with highly competent and engaged colleagues, located in Oslo and at our plants in Norway.

What you will be doing

As Financial Controller you are part of the financial reporting processes across AM and are responsible for steering and developing corresponding reports, processes, systems, controls, and policies in this area. You will report to the Head of Financial Reporting and Enterprise Risk Management in AM.

Your main tasks and deliveries will include:

• Act as a trusted business partner for AM business units, Group Accounting and external auditors.
• Take ownership for Accounting topics and projects.
• Coordinate the quarterly Accounting issue process and present Accounting issues to the Hydro CFO in Disclosure Committees.
• Act as process owner for the financial model in AM (account hierarchy, SAP cost/profit center).
• Maintain and improve financial reporting processes, systems, policies and ICFR controls.
• Support Hydro’s external quarterly and annual reporting and contribute to forecasting, performance, and deviation analysis.
• Contribute to standardization and automation of reports and processes.

To support your professional development, you can also expect some changes in your tasks over time.

What will make you successful?

We are looking for the following qualifications:

• Master’s degree in business administration, professional accounting or similar.
• Minimum five years experience with accounting and/or controlling, financial reporting and the use of financial systems from an international/industrial company.
• Sound accounting competence. IFRS competence and experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to sanity-check financials and explanations.
• Advanced Excel and Power Point skills. Experience with SAP, consolidation systems and analytical tools (SAP analytics cloud/SAC, PowerBI etc.) is a plus.
• Fluent English is required, fluent Norwegian is strongly preferred (or willingness to learn).

You can proactively identify and implement innovative ideas (including digitalization) to further improve our reporting function, processes, and systems. You easily build relationships and have excellent skills in messaging and communication across all organizational levels. You are motivated to work, learn and grow in a fast-paced and cross-cultural environment.