Lead Financial Controller

Imagine a future where you ensure trusted financial reporting in a complex, data-driven trading environment that supports the green energy transition.
Join us in this role where you’ll lead financial controlling for revenue and trading entities, owning close, reporting, and governance activities while ensuring accuracy, transparency, and compliance with IFRS. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Trading & Revenue, Tax, and Legal, translating complex data into reliable insights that support sound decision-making.

Welcome to Financial Controlling
You’ll be part of Financial Controlling where you, together with your colleagues, will ensure high-quality financial reporting, robust governance, and continuous improvement across our Nordic revenue and trading entities. You’ll work in a highly collaborative, data-intensive environment with exposure to complex contracts, systems, and regulatory requirements.

As a team, we collaborate closely, support each other, and take pride in delivering accurate results through strong ownership, openness, and shared responsibility.

You’ll play an important role in:

• leading financial controlling and statutory reporting for a portfolio of complex legal entities, ensuring high quality, compliance, and timely delivery.
• acting as a recognised subject matter expert within Danish GAAP and IFRS, providing guidance on complex accounting matters and driving robust accounting conclusions.
• owning the planning and execution of statutory audits, building strong relationships with external auditors and resolving complex audit matters independently.
• leading cross-functional projects and driving continuous improvements to financial processes, controls, governance, and documentation.
• partnering with senior stakeholders across Finance and the business, translating complex financial matters into clear recommendations and supporting decision-making.
• identifying risks, challenging existing practices constructively, and driving initiatives that strengthen financial control and reporting quality.
• mentoring and developing colleagues by sharing knowledge, coaching team members, and contributing to capability building across the Financial Controlling team.

To succeed in the role, you:

• hold a Master's degree in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, or a related field, and/or are a State Authorised Public Accountant.
• have deep expertise in Danish GAAP and IFRS, with the ability to interpret complex requirements and apply them in practice within a large and complex organisation.
• bring significant experience from financial controlling and audit, with responsibility for complex legal entities and stakeholder environments.
• have a strong understanding of financial reporting, internal controls, risk management, and statutory compliance.
• are comfortable leading discussions with auditors, senior management, and business stakeholders, influencing outcomes through clear and credible communication.
• demonstrate strong business acumen and can translate financial information into actionable insights and recommendations.
• thrive in complex environments, take ownership of challenging topics, and proactively drive solutions and improvements.
• enjoy leading initiatives and supporting others through coaching, sparring, and knowledge sharing.
• bring the professional credibility and technical expertise needed to act as a trusted advisor on complex accounting and reporting matters.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Please note that you’re expected to do some travelling in relation to your work, as you’ll visit other Ørsted locations and collaborate with stakeholders across Nordic entities.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate. As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via Se e-mailadresse på jobbank.dk .

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

Pre-employment background checks:

For certain positions, a background check may be required as part of the hiring process. Because we recruit across multiple countries, the specific checks performed will depend on the role and the legal requirements in the location where the position is filled. If a background check is relevant for the role you are being considered for, you will be informed during the recruitment process. All background checks are carried out by an external provider and always in accordance with applicable local laws and regulations.

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Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a global leader in offshore wind and is one of the largest renewable energy companies in the world. With us, you’ll play your part in creating a world that runs entirely on green energy. As a leading green energy company, we leverage the curiosity and passion of our people to innovate and develop new technologies or bring existing technologies to scale, collaborating with governments, suppliers, and our industry partners to make renewable energy solutions a reality. At Ørsted, we work together with openness and respect and seek fresh perspectives to solve any task at hand: big or small.

About Ørsted

• We provide countries, companies, and communities with sustainable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy solutions, including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and energy storage.
• Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.
• We built the world’s first offshore wind farm, Vindeby in Denmark, in 1991, and completed the world’s largest, Hornsea 2 in the UK, in 2022.
• We were founded in Denmark in 2006 and now have approximately 8,000 employees, working in 15 countries and counting.

An inclusive team
At Ørsted, we strive to be an inclusive workplace where you’re respected for who you are, valued for the unique perspectives you bring, and rewarded fairly for what you achieve. We want all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, no matter their age, race, ethnicity, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Application deadline

31 August 2026

Location

Gentofte, DK Warsaw, PL Skærbæk, DK

Area of work

Finance and controlling

Employment type

Permanent

Work hours

Full-time

Workplace

Hybrid (office and home-working)

Some of our benefits include