FP&A - Business Controller

About AcastSince 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.

About The Role

As our FP&A - Business Controller, you will serve as a lead strategic architect within our finance function. In this role, you aren’t just observing the business; you are a key partner to senior management, translating complex data into the actionable insights that drive our growth as a listed company.

Operating within a public environment, you will balance the rigor of high-level compliance with the agility of strategic business support. You will be responsible for overseeing financial management reporting and providing the "why" behind the figures to facilitate expert decision-making across the organization.

What You´ll DoBusiness Partnering:

Act as a trusted financial partner to senior stakeholders and managers, proactively providing insights, challenging assumptions, and influencing strategic and operational decision-making.

Financial Analysis:

Lead in-depth financial analysis, translating complex data into clear, actionable insights to drive business performance, investment decisions, and long-term planning.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

Own and drive the budgeting and forecasting processes within your scope, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and alignment with overall financial and strategic objectives.

Budget Performance:

Partner closely with business leaders to monitor financial performance, identify variances, and guide corrective actions to deliver against budget and profitability targets.

Financial Closing:

Play a key role in the monthly closing process, ensuring integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of financial data, while continuously improving closing routines.

Performance Analysis:

Deliver comprehensive analysis of P&L statements and key performance indicators, highlighting risks, opportunities, and key drivers to support proactive decision-making.

Financial Reporting:

Produce high-quality financial reporting with clear, insightful commentary, presenting findings to stakeholders in a concise and impactful manner.

Sales Commissions:

Oversee and enhance the sales commission process, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and continuous improvement of related methodologies.

Financial Projects:

Lead or play a central role in finance-related projects and transformation initiatives, driving process improvements, automation, and efficiency across the function.

Who You Are

• Experience:
• Several years of experience in an international environment as a Business Controller, Senior Financial Analyst, or similar role, with a track record of influencing business decisions.
• Working in a listed environment is meriting.
• Education:A degree in Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field.

Skills

• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to work with large datasets and translate financial concepts into business insights.
• Communication:
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly and confidently to senior and non-finance audiences.
• Mindset:A proactive and commercially minded professional who takes ownership, challenges the status quo, and demonstrates curiosity to deeply understand business drivers and identify improvement opportunities.
• Tools & Systems:
• Strong experience with Excel and solid understanding of Business Intelligence tools; familiarity with financial systems and data visualization tools is an advantage.
• Industry Knowledge:
• Experience or strong interest in media, advertising, or technology is considered a plus.
• Experience from a sales-driven organization or working closely with commercial teams is also meritorious.
• Location
• While we operate with a high degree of trust and flexibility, we expect this role to be based out of our Stockholm office with a weekly presence.

Culture Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome.

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!