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Head of Business Controlling

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Keystone Education Group
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Keystone Education Group |
Head of Business Controlling

Headquartered at Fornebu outside Oslo, Norway, Keystone is backed by Viking Venture and Verdane Capital Advisors, two leading Nordic venture firms. With offices across the Nordics, Germany, and the UK, Keystone has an truly international staff of about 500 employees. We are a vibrant and talented group of global citizens with a true passion for education and technology, and our vision is to help everyone in the world find the right educational path.

Keystone is trusted by more than 110 million unique prospective students every year to help both students and learners make one of the most important decisions of their lifetime, namely choosing the best higher education institution for them to attend.

In turn, Keystone helps over 5 500 education institutions reach, recruit, and enroll students in more than 190 countries, across 460 student websites, including Masterstudies.com, Bachelorstudies.com, Educations.com, Studentum.se, and FindAMasters. Keystone also operates a range of other global student recruitment services, including Blueberry.nu, Keystone Sports and Keystone Recruit.

On behalf of Keystone Education Group, we are looking for a business-oriented Head of Business Controlling in the internationally leading online educational resource company, Keystone Education Group. The role is essential in supporting and managing the company’s strong growth, and in using business analysis, KPI’s and financial & operational forecasting to help the business unit leaders reach their goals, as well as report concisely to management and board of directors. The role will have leadership responsibility of a team of Business Controllers, and be a strategic partner to the CFO, to whom the role reports.

Scope of work

  • Responsible for insights and periodic reporting to management and board of directors in cooperation with the accounting team
  • Establish and maintain rolling financial forecasts, based on financial and operational drivers of success
  • Analyse the core business and establish insights and action items for management and the wider organization
  • Together with CFO and SVP Finance, ensure sound financial management, profitability management and cost & capex control
  • Responsibility for financial and operational internal reporting
  • Prepare documentation for board meetings, management, and the like
  • Develop financial models and analyses, utilizing IT-applications and data warehouse, to support growth initiatives, including M&A
  • Manage the company’s treasury responsibilities, including cash management, working capital and liquidity forecasting for the Group
  • Initiate and execute initiatives to ensure an efficient and future-oriented finance function
  • Personnel responsibility for the business controller team

Desired experience and qualifications

  • Master’s degree in finance or business
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably a combination of “Big5” experience with operational exposure
  • Sound understanding of accounting, reporting and financial modelling
  • Advanced user of Excel, Power-BI and/or similar IT-system competence
  • Analytical and commercial
  • Enjoy standardization and continuous improvement 
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Fluent in English, both verbal and written

Desired personal skills

  • Distinct analytical skills
  • Strong business understanding and commercial flair
  • Results-oriented with strong execution skills
  • Ability to identify potential for improvement and ensure the effects of change
  • Self-driven and proactive
  • Thriving in an international environment

What we offer

  • Great influence over the company’s continued growth and success
  • Large degree of work-related flexibility – we are focused on deliverables and outcomes
  • A distinct international corporate culture
  • Competitive compensation

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Firma

Keystone is trusted by more than 110 million unique prospective students every year to help both students and learners make one of the most important decisions of their lifetime, namely choosing the best higher education institution for them to attend.

In turn, Keystone helps over 5 500 education institutions reach, recruit, and enroll students in more than 190 countries, across 460 student websites, including Masterstudies.com, Bachelorstudies.com, Educations.com, Studentum.se, and FindAMasters. Keystone also operates a range of other global student recruitment services, including Blueberry.nu, Keystone Sports and Keystone Recruit.

Headquartered at Fornebu outside Oslo, Norway, Keystone is backed by Viking Venture and Verdane Capital Advisors, two leading Nordic venture firms. With offices across the Nordics, Germany, and the UK, Keystone has an truly international staff of about 500 employees. We are a vibrant and talented group of global citizens with a true passion for education and technology, and our vision is to help everyone in the world find the right educational path.

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