Finance Director, Burson
On-siteStockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Job Summary
Lead finance across Sweden and Norway, ensuring strong financial management, governance, and commercial discipline. Own budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes while providing accurate reporting on revenue, profitability, margins, cash flow, and working capital. Partner with client and business leads on pricing, profitability, and resourcing decisions to support sustainable growth. Oversee month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, manage audit, tax, and statutory reporting, and drive improvements in finance systems and ways of working. Ensure compliance with local and group policies while translating financial data into actionable insights for leadership. This senior market finance leadership role reports to the Norway and Sweden Market Leader & EMEA CFO. The position requires significant experience in financial planning, controls, and commercial finance within a professional services or agency environment, with fluency in English and highly desirable Swedish language skills.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience in senior finance, financial control, Financial Planning & Analysis or commercial finance roles
- Ideally within a professional services, communications, consulting, agency or matrixed international environment
- Strong understanding of financial management within a smaller or mid-sized market
- Ability to balance strategic input with hands-on delivery
- Proven experience partnering with senior leaders to improve financial performance, commercial discipline and operational decision-making
- Strong budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance analysis and performance management experience
- Good understanding of accounting, controls, audit, tax and compliance requirements across Sweden
- Experience working with regional or group finance teams, ideally in an international network or multinational organisation
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial information and turn it into clear, actionable insight
- High level of integrity, sound judgement and confidence in providing constructive challenge
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain finance matters clearly to non-finance colleagues
- Fluent English
- Swedish language skills
- Norwegian language skills or experience working with Norway
Desired Qualifications
- Experience within a professional services, communications, consulting, agency or matrixed international environment
- Exposure to Norway or wider Nordic markets
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