Do you want to become our new Finance Manager?

Schibsteds digital marketplaces have unique and strong positions as market leaders, with FINN in Norway, Blocket in Sweden, DBA and Bilbasen in Denmark, and Tori and Oikotie in Finland. Together we make up Nordic Marketplaces in Schibsted, collectively connecting millions of buyers and sellers every month. Whether you want to buy a car, a new home, find a job or want a pair of new shoes, you can turn to us.

The Nordic Accelerator is a new unit established to find, nail and scale tomorrow's winning marketplace models, to create a more sustainable future. In Schibsted we have more than two decades of experience within both marketplaces and venture building, and now we are taking the step to combine our world-class marketplace assets and people with the right venture mindset, funding and mandates. While the core businesses work on sustaining innovation, the Nordic Accelerator works across verticals and with new business areas, driven by disruptive innovation.

We aim to deliver more than NOK 1Bn topline by the end of 2025 within areas of strategic importance to the verticals and not the least large sustainability impact. Our starting point is a small portfolio of proven businesses including Qasa and Nettbil, emerging businesses as Honk and Gen-Z fashion marketplace Plick, and we have funding and a team to explore and build new businesses from ideation to “exit”.

We are >200 people across the portfolio of companies, but like other accelerators and venture building teams, we have a small “NMP core” of >25 people steering execution and scaling, and working closely with the verticals to bring in domain expertise and synergies from our brands and customers.

The goal is to be the preferred partner to accelerate growth of marketplaces in the Nordics.

In this job, you will have responsibility for Finance in the Accelerator. You will work closely with the different companies, but also collaborate across Schibsted. You will be a strong contributor to the Accelerator delivering profitable growth and ensuring quality and that we are compliant with regulations. You will identify opportunities for improvement, and be a sparring partner for the management.

Responsibilities:

• Handles all tasks related to finance and compliance in the Nordic Accelerator

• Provides finance advisory services to businesses during the scaling phase and produces analysis and forecasts to assist in managing financial performance

• Acts as a business partner for the businesses

• Helps the businesses assess their business models and develop new, that are a success in the market

• Proactively finds insightful data on the performance of the businesses

• Creates business cases with the businesses and other teams in the Nordic Accelerator which can be used to guide decision making.

• Provides guidance on regulatory issues, assists in identifying the key issues and acts as the interface with Schibsted to secure the expertise needed to manage them

• Ensures that the correct tax is paid in each country

• Act as a first point of contact for data protection and ensures that all businesses and candidate businesses in the Nordic Accelerator are in compliant to requirements

• Acts as a trusted subject matter expert on financial topics

Profile:

• Business partner approach to finance

• Minimum 7 years experience from Finance

• Proven experience in finance

• Analytical

• Excellent communication skills

Behavioral:

• Is flexible and can quickly adapt to new challenges

• Innovative and ambitious

• People driven and easy to collaborate with

• Problem solver