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 month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close for revenue and trading entities, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and IFRS compliance.
  • preparing and reviewing annual financial statements and reporting packages under IFRS and Danish GAAP, coordinating with external auditors.
  • owning IFRS 15 revenue recognition for trading and revenue‑related contracts, including policies, estimates, disclosures, and contract assets and liabilities.
  • ensuring data quality and integrity across large datasets, including reconciliations between trading systems and the general ledger, and master data governance.
  • driving continuous improvements in close, reporting, data governance, documentation, and process standardisation across Nordic entities.
  • supporting internal controls, governance, audits, statutory filings, management commentary, and ad‑hoc financial analysis and business partnering.

 

To succeed in the role, you:

  • have a master’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience, such as a Danish HD (Højere Diplomuddannelse) in finance or accounting with substantial practical experience; both paths are considered.
  • bring strong practical experience with financial controlling and reporting in a complex, data‑intensive environment, or equivalent experience.
  • have solid IFRS knowledge, including hands‑on experience with IFRS 15 revenue recognition, and knowledge of IFRS 9 and Danish GAAP.
  • are comfortable working with large datasets, data extraction, reconciliations, and data quality and governance controls.
  • communicate clearly in English and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across functions and seniority levels.
  • apply a structured, analytical, and detail‑oriented approach, even when working to tight deadlines.

 

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 accommodation@orsted.com.

 

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

5 June 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