Are you looking to join a dynamic, innovation-driven, international company, building a better future for us all? UPM leads the forest based bioindustry into a sustainable, innovation-driven, and exciting future. The competence, integrity and drive of our people make us unique. We live by our values – trust and be trusted, achieve together, renew with courage.

We are now looking for a Financial Controller, Biomoleculars to join our Financial Control team for a temporary position until 31 October 2022. The position is located in Tampere, Finland.

What you’ll do

• Ensure the financial operations are compliant and on-time in your responsibility area. Coordinate and monitor the tasks performed by service providers and business process streams

• Support and perform complex accounting, business and tax reporting and compliance related responsibilities, including financial closing, various analysis, internal controls and asset accounting

• Ownership of data correctness, high quality and timeliness of all reporting and analysis in your responsibility area

• Work closely with our internal stakeholders and external service providers. Ensure a well-functioning partnership with key stakeholders

• Supporting the Biomolecular businesses and related projects in financial matters.

• Implementation of process development initiatives, reporting changes and rule & regulation changes in your responsibility area

• Take the initiative to continuously improve processes, systems and ways of working in own expertise area

Who you are

You are a self-directed finance professional with a solution-oriented mindset. Your analytical skills, record to report process understanding and prioritizing capabilities contribute to the success of the whole team.

• You have at least a bachelor’s degree in finance, preferably in accounting, taxation or business administration

• You have at least 3 years of work experience in accounting, taxation and reporting processes, including both management and financial accounting. Experience of Finnish statutory and corporate income tax reporting is considered as an asset

• You have very good IT skills. In addition to normal MS Office tools, experience of SAP S/4, ETL tools, analytics and visualization tools such as PowerBI are considered as an asset

• You have at least one year of experience in producing various financial analysis. You have the ability to understand and conceptualize complex processes and data flows

• You have strong collaboration, influencing and team working skills with flexible, positive and proactive attitude towards changing and global work environment

• You are fluent in English and Finnish

This is what we offer for you

• Meaningful job: We are proud of what we do. Our work highlights the expertise of our personnel, the high quality of our products and the company's values.

• Inspired and motivated teams: We have highly skilled workforce. We are a multifaceted, international organization that works as a team to achieve our shared objectives.

• Development opportunities: With us you can build up your expertise. We provide opportunities to support your development throughout every stage of your career.

• Responsibility for people and environment: Our ethical principles embrace people as well as the environment. We are always striving to build a more sustainable future.

Additional information

For further information please contact Reija Levonius, Senior Manager, Biomoleculars and Technology at reija.levonius@upm.com or tel. +358204146230.

Please apply via the link and attach your CV and cover letter by 24 October 2021.

For support with submitting your application, please contact the HR Service Center at careers@upm.com or tel. +358204146600.

A security background check may be performed for those selected to UPM positions, in accordance with the company recruitment guidelines and the Security Clearance Act 726/2014.

UPM is a non-smoking workplace in Finland.

UPM Financial Operations is a customer service oriented global function providing financial expertise for all UPM businesses and functions. We as a team drive to be operationally efficient, performing on a high level to give our very best to our both internal and external customers and stakeholders. In order to support our future growth we are now looking for new talents to make our organization even more professional, versatile, collaborative and vibrant - ready to take in new challenges! 

We deliver renewable and responsible solutions and innovate for a future beyond fossils across six business areas: UPM Biorefining, UPM Energy, UPM Raflatac, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Communication Papers and UPM Plywood. As the industry leader in responsibility we are committed to the UN Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the science-based targets to mitigate climate change. We employ 18,000 people worldwide and our annual sales are approximately EUR 8.6 billion. Our shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. UPM Biofore – Beyond fossils. www.upm.com 

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