Associate, Finance and Strategy, Partner Retail

Are you passionate about supporting business management through sharp financial analysis? Do you have solid experience crunching data and would like to work in one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe? If so, then please read on!

Role background:

Wolt is a Finnish technology company and we’re best known for our food delivery platform. While we are a tech company at heart, our success relies heavily on the performance of our 30 country teams. Our industry is both hyper-local and operational by nature. Therefore, our ability to create and deliver unmatched user experience is contested every day across all our cities.

Your team:

The Finance & Strategy team ensures that our top management, both central and in the countries that we operate in, have timely, correct and insightful information at hand for decision making. We strive to help and challenge our stakeholders to make sure we’re optimizing all aspects of the business.

We’re responsible for Wolt’s management reporting, P&L analysis, forecasting & budgeting processes and planning systems. Our stakeholders vary from our investors and top executives to country and functional leadership, as well as the wider finance team that we’re an integral part of. 

We at Wolt make decisions based on analysis and data, and thus the ability to work with numbers is part of our DNA. Most people at Wolt crunch data on a daily basis, including our CEO. In this company figures really matter, which makes your role all the more important.

What you’ll be doing:

As Associate in the Finance & Strategy team, you will ensure that the senior management both in the central functions and country operations receives timely and accurate analysis of our business. You will be a key contributor in supporting our growth story reaching new heights by providing business insights to our management, as well as developing our management reporting and forecasting processes. In this role you will have the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on how business control processes are built in a global, fast-growing technology company. As you gain more experience and show stellar performance in the role, you will get the chance to take on even more challenging duties as a finance business partner depending on your own aspirations. The preferred location for this role is Helsinki.

You will:

• Run and develop Wolt's management reporting, forecasting and budgeting processes. You will focus on Partner Retail, our exciting third party collaborations in verticals ranging from Grocery to Pet Supplies and many others.
• Work closely with country and business line management, support their work with reports, analyses and insights.
• Develop forecasting methods and logic used for business planning at Wolt.
• Continuously support the development of tools, processes and systems for financial follow-ups.

Our humble expectations:

• 2+ years background in business control, finance business partnership, management consulting or similar.
• Skilled in data analysis and handling large amounts of data. Good attention to detail and excellent skills in Excel are a must.
• Solid financial acumen: you understand the role and interrelationships of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements.
• Prior experience in FMCG is a plus. Ability to cope with a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, both in terms of understanding user needs and communicating effectively with senior management in an international context.
• Degree in Business/Economics, Industrial Management or other financial degree.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
• Eligible to work in E.U. 

What we offer:

• Opportunity to be part of building something exceptional, in an international environment
• Lots of learning and growth in a globally scaling tech company

Next steps:

The process will begin with a conversation with a Talent Acquisition Partner, followed by a chat with the Manager of Finance & Strategy, Partner Retail. After that, there will be a practical assignment, and once completed, we’ll be ready to make a decision.