POSITION: Project Controller

WHERE: Reach for Change, based in Stockholm, Sweden

COMMITMENT: Full time, permanent

STARTING DATE: June 2025 or upon agreement

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 14th of May 2025

INTERVIEWS: Expected to be taking place from 19th May

Professional proficiency in Swedish and English is a requirement.

Do you have experience in project coordination, financial controlling or EU reporting in a non-profit or project-based environment? Are you looking to join a mission-driven, collaborative team where your work contributes to social impact? If so, keep reading below.

About the role

We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented Project Controller to strengthen our team. In this key role, you will be responsible for the financial coordination of projects both in Sweden and across our international subsidiaries.

Your main focus will be to ensure that projects run smoothly from a financial perspective - from planning and budgeting, through implementation, to final reporting. This includes providing accurate and timely financial reporting, ensuring compliance with organizational and statutory requirements, and providing hands-on support to both local and global colleagues. This role suits someone who is financially savvy, structured and able to manage multiple priorities, but also comfortable navigating complexity and change. You will be a critical part of ensuring that our team can deliver high-impact projects in a sustainable and well-governed way.

Who we are

Reach for Change is a global non-profit empowering social entrepreneurs with skills, network, and funding to scale their impact. We believe that one person can change the world. One person with true passion, an entrepreneurial spirit and an innovative idea. But we also know that this person needs support - someone who believes in the idea and enables the first steps into building a social business. This is where we at Reach for Change come into the picture. We enroll exceptional local and early stage social entrepreneurs into our support programs, people who truly have a passion and an innovative idea for creating a better world. We help them to go from an idea to a sustainable social business. We have done this for 14 years, and during this time supported over 1600 social entrepreneurs, in 18 countries across Europe and Africa, who in turn have reached 4.7 million children and youth.

Main responsibilities:

1) Managing of the day-to-day financial aspects of projects run by the Swedish and Latvia legal entities

• Oversee the financial management and quality control of project-related financial transactions and reporting.

• Provide financial support to Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external financial regulations.

• Develop and maintain efficient financial processes and routines to streamline operations.

• Support the Finance team with project-specific financial tasks, including budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.

• Lead project audits and assist with the annual auditing process by providing financial data and insights.

2) Managing the financial analysis, follow-up and reporting for projects

• Plan, prepare and present monthly financial reports, including any interim reports, tailored to the needs of project managers, management, donors and partners.

• Lead the development and refinement of internal reporting and controlling processes.

• Conduct thorough budget vs. actual (BvA) analysis, identify deviations and propose solutions.

• Manage relationships with project managers, donors and partners to ensure alignment and compliance with and that donor-specific financial requirements.

Core Competencies & Skills we are looking for:

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to produce accurate, high-quality financial reports.

• Capable of managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment, whilst adapting to changing circumstances and priorities.

• Proactive and positive “can-do” attitude, with a desire to learn and grow within the role.

• Works effectively both independently and as part of a team, fostering a positive and collaborative environment.

• Fast learner with strong problem-solving skills and a natural instinct for structure and clarity.

• Takes initiative and proactively leads tasks to completion.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interact with and convey information clearly across stakeholder groups.

Qualifications & Experience:

We do not expect candidates to meet every requirement, but we are looking for candidates who possess most of the following:

• 1-5 years of relevant experience in finance and accounting - ideally in a nonprofit or project-based environment.

• Experience with donor or grant reporting (e.g. EU or similar) is an advantage.

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.

• Experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting, as well as project control processes such as tracking budgets, timelines and cost control.

• Familiarity with financial audits and basic compliance procedures.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel, along with strong IT skills and familiarity with Google Suite.

• Professional fluency in both spoken and written English and Swedish.

Reach for Change recognizes that creating the change we want to see around us starts with ourselves, in our own organization. That is why it is important for us to strive to represent the change we want to see in the world.As a team, we strive to be diverse along many dimensions such as ethnicity, gender, language, age, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, beliefs, socio-economic status, physical and mental ability, thinking styles, experience, and education. We believe that the wide array of perspectives results from such diversity and promotes innovation and success. We therefore invite every candidate to bring their unique individual strengths.