Business Controller

Business Controller at Ardoq

Keep the numbers honest and help one of Europe’s most ambitious scale-ups understand what they mean.

Ardoq is one of Norway’s most exciting scale-ups — a truly global company built out of Oslo. We are a SaaS platform that helps organizations understand, manage, and evolve their complex digital landscape. By providing a dynamic, collaborative “digital twin” of their business, we connect systems, people, and processes to drive better decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.

Today, we help some of the world’s most complex organizations (like ExxonMobil and British Telecom) gain clarity in a changing world. We are backed by leading global tech investors, including EQT and One Peak, giving us the stability of a mature company with the speed and soul of a startup.

Ardoq is growing fast — and with that growth comes real financial complexity. Our SaaS revenue model, multi-region operations, and increasingly ambitious planning cycles require someone who can hold the numbers to a high standard while helping the business understand what they mean. That’s where you come in.

As Business Controller, you will sit at the intersection of financial discipline and business insight. You’ll own the close process, ensure our P&L reflects reality, and build the financial models and management reports that our leaders rely on to make good decisions. At the same time, you’ll be a genuine partner to the business — translating operational context into financial clarity and helping us plan for what comes next.

This role matters because our ability to grow confidently depends on having clean books, sharp forecasts, and financial reporting that stakeholders can trust. You will directly enable that.

• Own the monthly and quarterly close: Prepare accruals, deferrals, and reclassifications so our financials are accurate, well-documented, and reconciled to the underlying data.

• Drive management reporting: Deliver monthly and quarterly reports that give functional leaders a clear, reliable view of revenue, cost, KPIs, and variances, with explanations they can act on.

• Build and maintain financial models: Develop scenario analyses and budgeting models that support operational and strategic decisions across the business.

• Own cost structure and P&L integrity: Maintain the definitions and data structures that underpin how we report costs, ensuring consistency as the business scales.

• Surface insights proactively: Spot trends, risks, and efficiency opportunities and bring them forward, with evidence and a recommended course of action.

• Improve financial systems and workflows: Contribute to the ongoing development of our ERP, CRM, and FP&A tooling to raise data quality and reporting capability.

• Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Accounting, and with functional leaders across the business, to ensure financial information is accurate, understood, and acted upon.

Reconcile last month’s close entries and investigate a variance flag from the revenue team. Prepare a variance commentary for the CFO pack that actually explains what happened, not just what the numbers say. Update a scenario model to reflect a change in headcount assumptions. Sit down with a functional leader to walk through their cost centre performance and help them understand the levers they have. Identify a reporting inconsistency between two dashboards and fix it at the source.

We are looking for someone who combines financial rigour with commercial curiosity - someone who is as comfortable in a close process as they are in a business conversation.

• You have a strong grounding in financial controlling, you understand how a P&L works, what good accruals documentation looks like, and why data integrity matters.

• You have an analytical mind. You learn new tools and systems quickly, you see patterns in data, and you ask “why” before you accept a number at face value.

• You take pride in getting the details right. You're as comfortable reconciling accounts as you are building a forecast or presenting to leadership. You see close work as the foundation everything else depends on.

• Experience in a SaaS or subscription business is a strong plus. If you haven't worked in SaaS before, you should be excited to learn how ARR reporting, recurring revenue models, and subscription billing work.

• You can communicate financial findings clearly to non-finance stakeholders. You help people understand what the numbers mean for their decisions.

• You are comfortable in a scaling environment where processes are still maturing. You improve things rather than waiting for them to be perfect.
  

The "Ardoq Way"

We live by three values — Bold, Caring, and Driven — that define how we work, how we treat each other, and how we win.

• BOLD: We continuously raise the bar for ourselves and each other, starting from a place of "what if I could?" We act decisively, even when the information isn't complete, and choose forward motion and learning over waiting for the perfect answer.

• CARING: We care enough to be candid. That means delivering direct, kind, and timely feedback that helps our teammates grow. We operate as one team, sharing knowledge openly, celebrating each other's wins, and putting collective success ahead of individual ones.

• DRIVEN: At Ardoq, everyone has a stake in the outcome - including stock options. We act like owners: measuring success by impact rather than effort, saying "no" to distractions, and staying focused on the highest-value work at pace.

We believe that high performance is powered by wellbeing. You’ll have access to a competitive package that supports performance, wellbeing, and long-term success.

• Employee Stock Options — share in Ardoq’s success as we grow together

• 25 days annual leave offered globally

• Enhanced parental leave available globally to support you and your family

• Retirement and insurance benefits, including travel, health, disability and life insurance

• Annual learning budget to support your growth and development

• A hybrid working policy: 2–3 days per week from one of our centrally located offices (Oslo, Copenhagen, NYC, London)

Send us your CV — we’d love to hear from you.

Our hiring process typically includes 3–4 interview stages:

Talent screen → Hiring manager interview → Case study → Values interview.

At Ardoq, every teammate has a voice. Whether you love getting the numbers exactly right or finding the insight that changes a strategic decision, you’ll not only belong — you’ll impact, grow, and make work meaningful.

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