Are you motivated by turning numbers into clear insights that help leaders make better decisions? As Project Controller in STARK Group IT, you will strengthen financial governance across our IT project and programme portfolio - ensuring robust reporting, reliable forecasts, and transparency versus approved investment cases.
You will work closely with Programme and Project Managers, the IT PMO, Group Finance, and local country finance teams to ensure high-quality portfolio oversight, proactive risk management, and string predictability in month-end and steering forums. The role includes approximately 15 travel days per year, primarily related to collaboration with stakeholders across locations.
In this role, you will strengthen the financial transparency, predictability, and governance of STARK Group IT’s project and programme portfolio. You operate at the intersection of finance and delivery, ensuring that financial data is not only accurate, but actively used to drive better decisions, prioritisation, and portfolio performance.
Your success is not defined by reporting itself, but by the impact your reporting creates. You bring clarity to complex project portfolios, challenge assumptions constructively, and ensure that stakeholders across IT and Finance share a common understanding of performance, risks, and trade-offs.
You will take ownership of the monthly financial cycle and act as a trusted finance partner to Programme and Project Managers, the IT PMO, and Finance. This means that you do not just report on performance - you actively shape it through insight, dialogue, and governance.
More specifically, you will be successful in this role when you:
Beyond delivering high-quality financial reporting and governance, you will play a key role in strengthening how we work with portfolio controlling across Group IT. You will have the opportunity to shape reporting standards, improve ways of working, and develop towards a broader finance business partnering role, working closely with stakeholders across IT and Finance in an international setup.
You bring a solid financial foundation combined with a strong ability to collaborate across stakeholders in a dynamic IT environment. You are comfortable working with both detail and complexity, and you naturally connect financial insight with business impact.
Alongside your technical foundation, your way of working and engaging with others is key to your success in this role. You bring structure and drive into your work, while also being able to challenge stakeholders in a constructive and collaborative way.
When joining Group IT, you will be joining a digital transformation journey as we replace our legacy monoliths and transition towards a modular and flexible integrated setup. Group IT, a dynamic and rapidly evolving part of STARK Group, is responsible for delivering groupwide business-critical IT solutions. We strive to modernise and reimagine the IT landscape to ensure both scalability and composability to meet existing and future business needs, and we would like your help to rethink the way things are done in our industry to offer our customers a superior experience.
At STARK Group IT, we believe in the richness diversity brings. We invite candidates of all backgrounds to join us in creating an inclusive and welcoming environment.
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the position. You are welcome to contact our Senior Finance Manager, Jens Heilmann, on jens.heilmann@stark.dk for any specific questions regarding the role.
STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a strong legacy. It was first established in Denmark in 1896 and has today evolved into a leading European retailer and distributor of heavy building materials with net sales of approx. EUR 9 billion.
With a dedicated team of more than 20,000 employees and +1,150 branches and distribution centres across the Nordics, Greenland, Germany, Austria and the UK, we live and breathe to serve professional craftsmen with heavy building materials across Europe.
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STARK Group is a leading business-to-business merchant and distributor of heavy building materials for the construction industry in Europe, with a strategic focus on serving professional builders from its more than 1,050 branches. STARK Group has net sales of EUR 7.76 billion, serves a portfolio of 450,000 customers and collaborates with approx. 15,000 suppliers. Headquartered in Denmark, STARK Group employs more than 18,500 employees in Germany, Austria, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. The Group holds leading national or regional position in all markets.
STARK Group holds SBTi-approved and validated net zero climate targets for 2050, aligned with the 1.5°C pathway of the Paris Agreement. The company is a proud signatory of the UN Global Compact and ranks among the top 1% of companies worldwide, earning EcoVadis’ Platinum rating for sustainability performance.
