Finance Manager Nordics

The Role

As Finance Manager Nordics, you’ll lead financial performance across Norway, Sweden, and Finland—shaping strategy, driving insight, and ensuring strong, compliant financial operations.

You’ll oversee planning, reporting, accounting, tax, and controlling across all three markets, delivering clear analysis that supports high-impact commercial decisions. Working closely with teams across Operations, Sales, Marketing, P&C, and Supply Chain, you’ll help ensure our market strategies are financially resilient and future-focused.

This role is ideal for a connected, forward-thinking leader who brings clarity through data, challenges constructively, and inspires high performance.

Ready to make a real impact across the Nordics? Apply now and help shape our next chapter.

Principle Accountabilities

• Drive Market Performance: Analyse financial results across the Nordics, highlight key variances, and pinpoint opportunities for improvement. Lead KPI tracking, performance reporting, and scenario modelling to support strategic decision-making.
• Lead Planning & Strategy: Own the budgeting and forecasting cycle, challenging assumptions and shaping strong financial plans. Partner with Market Managers to deliver aligned, long-term strategic direction across all three markets.
• Oversee Core Finance Operations: Ensure accurate accounting, statutory reporting, tax, and controlling activities. Lead all finance functions with a focus on compliance, quality, and supporting the BU’s strategic goals.
• Be a Trusted Business Partner: Build strong cross-functional relationships and work closely with Operations, Sales, Marketing, P&C, and Supply Chain to ensure market strategies are financially sound and commercially viable.
• Strengthen Risk & Governance: Identify key financial risks, implement effective controls, and champion a culture of accountability, transparency, and robust financial management.
• Develop Talent & Capability: Coach and elevate the finance team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture. Boost financial literacy across the business and champion ongoing data, technology, and operating model transformation.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong academic or professional background in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience within a large, global, highly matrixed organisation—ideally within FMCG or Tobacco.
• Skilled at turning complex data into clear, concise insights that drive action.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• High attention to detail, consistently delivering accurate, high-quality work.
• Proven ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders across the business.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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