Are you the first CFO of one of Sweden's most successful SaaS companies?

About the position

Ongoing is continuing its journey of profitable growth and is now searching for a Chief Financial Officer

About the company 

Ongoing is a successful and growing software group developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for logistics-intensive businesses. The service contributes to millions of consumers and businesses receiving what they need with a great customer experience. The software service has been developed and improved over many years with close collaboration with our customers and partners. Ongoing strives every day to simplify and connect a complex world of Logistics. The company is the market leader in its niche in the Nordic countries and has built the largest software ecosystem in the market. Join the company in its expansion throughout the world.

Ongoing is growing at an average rate of 20% a year. We are now 50 coworkers and sell for over 150 MSEK. The business is organized in two legal entities with one office in Johanneberg, Gothenburg. We are office-first.

About the position

One of the main success drivers for our operational performance is to hire talented people who want to take on a broad responsibility and be willing to take on a broad set of tasks. Almost all of our coworkers are engineers with a master's degree. We are now looking to broaden that competence.

Currently the responsibility of the financial function of the company is highly distributed across the company with the CEO being accountable for the overall financial performance but other's taking on responsibility for other tasks such as purchasing, invoicing, administration etcetera. Running tasks such as bookkeeping and payroll is outsourced. Many tasks are digitalized and automated.

In the role as the group's first Chief Financial Officer (CFO) you will take on the financial responsibility and tasks from your coworkers while being accountable and responsible for the performance of the outsourced relationship with the bookkeeping and payroll supplier. Additionally, you will be responsible for the relationship with authorities, the auditing firm and help to increase the transparency of the financial reporting to the CEO, the board and other interested parties by providing quarterly reports.

Other tasks and responsibilities include invoicing administration, customer claims, supplier relationships, purchasing, payroll management, legal, insurance and facility management. We expect you to centralize, document and take the processes to the next level to support further profitable growth.

About you

We think that you live or want to move to Gothenburg for work. You are willing to work in the office and take on a broad accountability and responsibility for the whole financial function. Being a small company, we think that you will need to being able to both have the strategic overview of a CFO and being able to run the financial operation with effective processes as a financial controller. You communicate effectively in both Swedish and English. In written as well as in spoken form.

Maybe you are currently working at one of the major auditing firms such as PwC, EY, Deloitte or KPMG. Or maybe you have had similar positions to CFO or Financial Controller in other companies.

Qualifications

You should be excited about working in an entrepreneurial-driven professional software company where curiosity, responsibility, and flexibility are important parts of future success. Master's Degree holders are eligible. Since this is a senior management position you are expected to have at least 5 to 10 years of relevant working experience. Full professional working proficiency in English and Swedish is required.

We expect you to be able to understand and being able to use and implement modern tools for a fully digitalized efficient processes. We use Fortnox, Microsoft 365, Vanta, Zendesk among others and combine it with tools we have built ourselves.

While running fast the company needs to step by step improve the structure. We step by step build and improve our processes to reduce risk and increasing efficiency while we scale. It is therefore meritorious if you have experience working in a regulated environment and have experience with for example consolidated financial statements, IFRS and ISO certifications. 

Terms

At Ongoing, you can expect the company to challenge as well as care about you. We pay competitive salaries for skilled coworkers which can help the company to further develop. We also offer a healthy working environment with many other perks. Learn more about how we work at Ongoing.

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