Senior Lead Business Controller

Join us in this role where you’ll lead the operation and development of cost allocation model, ensuring robust, compliant, and insightful financial allocations. You’ll be responsible for the allocation model that distributes costs based on advanced logic in line with tax and accounting requirements. Your leadership will enable optimized cost management, compliance, and strategic decision-making across the business. You’ll also support capital planning, joint ventures, and business case analysis with OAM insights. 

 

Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling 
You’ll be part of Cost Reporting, Controlling & Allocation team where you, together with your colleagues, will be part of a global team responsible for responsible for the end-to-end design, operation, and continuous improvement of cost allocation models - that underpin financial transparency, compliance, and strategic decision-making across the company. We work closely with colleagues in Accounting, Controlling, Billing, Finance Business Partnering, and Transfer Pricing, as well as with IT and business units, to ensure our models and insights support both operational excellence and long-term growth.   

As a team, we work with team members based in Warsaw, Gentofte, and other key locations, we foster a collaborative, innovative, and high-performance culture, where knowledge sharing and professional development are central to our success. 

 

You’ll play an important role in:  

  • serving as the process owner for allocation model, ensuring accurate, compliant, and transparent allocation of costs across legal entities 

  • leading the continuous improvement of allocation models, including stakeholder engagement, change management, and process optimization 

  • ensuring allocation models are compliant with tax and accounting requirements, and supporting audits and regulatory reviews 

  • providing financial insights and forecasts based on OAM outputs to support strategic planning and business cases 

  • driving innovation in allocation methodologies, leveraging data analytics and stakeholder feedback. 

 

To succeed in the role, you:  

  • have a master’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or similar, with significant experience in controlling, financial modeling, and allocation processes 

  • possess advanced skills in Excel, SAP, SAP BPC, VBA, and Power BI, and are comfortable working with complex financial systems 

  • demonstrate strong leadership, project management, and change management skills, especially in process transformation 

  • communicate fluently in English, both written and spoken, and can explain complex financial concepts to diverse audiences 

  • are proactive, self-driven, and challenge the status quo to deliver improvements 

  • excel at stakeholder management, data presentation, and building cross-functional relationships. 

About the job

Application deadline:  07 January 2026
Location: 

Gentofte, DK Warsaw, PL

Field of work:  Finance and controlling
Employment type:  Permanent
Work hours: 
Workplace:  Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted

- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America. 

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years. 

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing. 

 

An inclusive team

Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.