Nordic Sports Brands is an e Commerce-oriented, fast-growing omnichannel specialist sporting and outdoor goods retail and wholesale group with its strong brands. The Group has companies in the Nordic countries of Finland, Sweden, and Norway: Nordic Sports Finland (wholesale, 1994), Green Trail (Finland, retail, 1993), Kuntokauppa (Finland, retail, 2007), Scushi (Norway, retail, 2012) and Sportproffsen (Sweden, retail, 2020). The entrepreneur-owned business offers great customer experience by high-quality price ratio, and a specialty store level of service. The Group employs over 100 e Commerce and retail professionals. NS Brands’ headquarters is located in Tampere, Finland.

The vision is to grow into the best company in the Nordic countries in terms of customer experience, employee experience, and profitable growth. The business is aimed to run by a "Winning" culture that encourages efficient accomplishment and continuous development with the mission of “Wellbeing for people.” Currently, the company is going through a business restructuring process focusing on turning the business back to profitable growth, thus writing the next chapters in the success story.
Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Tampere or Vantaa, Finland.
Reporting to: Chief Operating Officer
Job Description:
The Finance Manager manages accurate financial reporting, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and implementing internal controls to safeguard financial integrity. The Finance Manager is pivotal in managing cash flow, overseeing tax compliance, and coordinating audit activities. As a senior advisor, the Finance Manager provides essential financial insights to assist in strategic business decisions.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and refine financial reporting processes.

• Oversee cash flow management, ensuring robust financial health.

• Implement and enhance procedures for internal accounting and cost monitoring.

• Strengthen internal control frameworks to mitigate risks.

• Provide insightful financial analysis to support strategic business decisions.

• Collaborate closely with external auditors to ensure compliance.

• Lead high-performing finance professionals and work closely with external accounting partners.

Requirements:

• Accounting and financial expertise: Profound knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting standards (like FAS), and financial management is essential. This includes understanding complex financial instruments, consolidation processes, and intercompany transactions.

• Budgeting and forecasting skills: person needs to be adept at preparing and managing budgets, forecasting financial trends, and analyzing variances.

• Regulatory compliance and taxation: Understanding of local and international financial regulations, tax laws, and compliance requirements is crucial, especially given the diverse geographical spread of a group's operations.

• Strategic planning and analysis: Ability to analyze financial data to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities is key. This includes providing strategic recommendations to top management based on financial analysis.

• Risk management: Knowledge of risk assessment and the ability to develop strategies to manage financial risks, including currency, interest rate, and credit risks.

• Leadership and team management: Strong leadership skills to manage and mentor a team of finance professionals and external accountants.

• Communication and interpersonal skills: Excellent communication skills are necessary for explaining complex financial information in an understandable way to stakeholders, including non-finance professionals.

• Business acumen: Understanding the broader business environment, industry-specific challenges, and how financial decisions impact the overall business strategy.

• Technology proficiency: Familiarity with financial software, ERP systems, BI platforms, and advanced Excel skills. An understanding of emerging technologies like AI can be an advantage.

• Problem-solving and critical thinking: Ability to tackle complex financial issues, provide innovative solutions, and make sound decisions under pressure.

• Project management: Skills in managing multiple projects, often with tight deadlines and across various business units.

• Ethical judgement and professionalism: Upholding high ethical standards and maintaining confidentiality, particularly in handling sensitive financial information.

Language Skills

• English and,
• Finnish

Nordic Sports Brands offers you challenging and interesting tasks, a corporate culture aiming for excellence, and a positive and encouraging learning-hungry work community consisting of top experts who believe in dynamic and courageous data-driven work. You have the opportunity to develop the business, develop yourself, and be involved in writing an exceptional growth story. In addition, you will receive good and developing employee benefits.


We will require a negative drug test as part of Nordic Sports Brands' anti-drug policy. This small gesture aims to promote staff commitment to work in line with our mission and industry for the well-being and health of people.

Interested! If you have any further questions, contact the HR team at HR@nsbrands.com. The application deadline is 20.09.2024. Don't hesitate to send your application with your salary request before that, as we will be reviewing the application on a continuous basis.

We are looking forward to your application!