Interim Head of Finance and IT
Location: Visby, Gotland, SwedenStart Date: 16th November 2026
End Date: 31st March 2027
Work Style: Hybrid - Minimum 2 Days Weekly On Site - 40 Hours Weekly
Role Objective / Success Criteria
- Lead the Finance and IT department, managing a team of 10 employees supporting three group companies.
- Ensure effective delivery across controlling, accounting, invoicing, and IT while developing team practices and service quality.
- Act as a key member of the management team and play a central role in the organisation's transformation programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, support, and develop a multidisciplinary team across Finance and IT.
- Maintain effective financial and IT support for three group companies, ensuring clear priorities and reliable delivery.
- Oversee responsibilities across controlling, accounting, invoicing, and IT services.
- Contribute to group-level direction and decision-making as a member of the management team, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer.
- Drive change and process development across the function, supporting wider transformation objectives.
- Build effective relationships across the business and ensure the Finance and IT function remains responsive to operational needs.
Tasks
- Set departmental priorities, allocate responsibilities, and create clear direction for the team.
- Oversee controlling, accounting, and financial reporting activities, ensuring accurate and timely support.
- Ensure invoicing activities and administrative processes are managed effectively and consistently.
- Provide management-level oversight of IT systems, digitalisation initiatives, and information security matters.
- Review and develop working processes to improve efficiency, control, collaboration, and service delivery.
- Lead and support change initiatives affecting the department and its stakeholders.
- Provide financial, operational, and IT insight to support management decisions and organisational priorities.
- Coordinate with leaders and stakeholders across the group to resolve dependencies and maintain progress.
- Monitor departmental performance, risks, and resource requirements, communicating these to the Chief Executive Officer and management team.
- Maintain continuity and stability across Finance and IT throughout the interim assignment and transformation period.
Decision Authority / Responsibility
- Lead, prioritise, and manage the day-to-day performance of the Finance and IT department within agreed governance.
- Represent Finance and IT within the management team and provide recommendations on functional priorities and change activities.
- Make operational decisions within the remit of the role while maintaining appropriate financial, information-security, and organisational controls.
- Escalate material financial, IT, information-security, resource, or delivery risks to the Chief Executive Officer and relevant stakeholders.
Requirements
- University or college education in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrable leadership experience, ideally within Finance, IT, or another corporate support function.
- Proven responsibility for personnel leadership, team development, and process improvement.
- Experience leading change, preferably within an organisation comprising several companies or business areas.
- Strong understanding of finance operations, including controlling, accounting, and invoicing.
- Good understanding of IT as a business enabler, including systems support, digitalisation, and information security.
- Experience operating with senior stakeholders and contributing to management-level priorities and decisions.
- Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to create alignment across Finance, IT, and wider business stakeholders.
- Structured, collaborative, and delivery-focused leadership style, with the ability to maintain momentum during organisational change.
- Sound judgement and the ability to balance operational delivery, people leadership, and longer-term process improvement.
- Able to work on site in Visby at least two days per week, with additional on-site presence preferred where practical.