About the position
As CFO / Controller, you will collaborate with highly skilled senior leaders and stakeholders across the organization. This is your opportunity to leverage your expertise in finance and leadership while developing your skills in a dynamic, innovative, international and fast-paced environment. Join us in setting the standard in the security industry and make a significant impact on the future of Securitas IT and Securitas Digital.
Key responsibilities
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Financial Strategy: Drive the budgeting and forecasting processes to ensure financial stability and strategic growth for Securitas Digital and the IT organization.
- Performance Monitoring: Oversee IT financial performance, identify variances, and recommend corrective actions to maintain financial health.
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of finance professionals, including controllers and accountants, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment.
- Compliance and Reporting: Ensure compliance with financial regulations and internal policies, and prepare insightful financial reports for stakeholders.
- Financial Data Management: Own the financial reporting, data, and analytics setup to support informed decision-making.
- Cost Allocation: Develop and implement transparent chargeback models to allocate IT costs, promoting accountability and efficient resource utilization.
- Collaboration and Alignment: Work closely with IT and business leaders to align financial plans with organizational goals.
- Innovation and Efficiency: Lead development projects focused on becoming more data-driven and modernizing workflows to enhance efficiency and innovation.
- Best Practices Sharing: Support the development and sharing of best practices across Securitas IT, Digital, and group-wide
Qualifications
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in finance, business control, and leadership.
- Proven experience managing teams, driving strategic initiatives, and fostering high-performing work environments.
- You are likely currently working as a Business Controller or Group Business Controller in a large international corporation or have experience as a Management Consultant or in Transaction Services at a Big 4 firm.
Profile
Personality:
- High integrity and professionalism.
- Solution-oriented with an optimistic outlook.
- Adaptable and able to thrive in a changing environment.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a drive for innovation and improvements.
- Strong leadership qualities, with the ability to inspire and guide teams effectively.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling productive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Analytical and business-oriented, with a passion for data-driven decision-making.
Technical Skills:
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Language: Fluency in English is required; additional languages are a plus.
What the position offers
- A strategic role in a global environment with opportunities to influence and grow.
- Close collaboration with experienced leaders and a strong CFO community across the group.
- Challenging and meaningful projects that shape the future of the organization.
This position is based in Stockholm.
About the company
Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.
With around 358 000 employees in 45 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world’s best-known companies. Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.
Contact information and application
Securitas is collaborating with Wes in this recruitment process. Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.
For more information about the role please contact Marcela Mieres Eneroth, Senior Consultant at Wes by e-mailing marcela@wesgroup.se.