Financial Controller – Build a Scalable Finance Engine for a 10M+ Global SaaS Company

Location: Hybrid / remote in Helsinki, Finland

In this role, you won’t be stepping into a classic controller role, but you’ll be building the finance backbone of a profitable, scaling global SaaS company.

Key points about the role at a glance:

✅ Your mission: Turn finance into a scalable operating system that supports growth in a profitable, global SaaS company. Actively redesign how finance works by leveraging automation, AI, and smarter financial models.
✅ Work model: Finland-based, remote-friendly (Helsinki preferred but not mandatory). English is our working language.
✅ Growth opportunity: Real ownership from day one, with the potential to grow into a broader finance leadership role as we scale.
✅ Your manager: You report to our CFO, Vesa Rikkinen, who’s direct, analytical, allergic to bureaucracy, and looking for someone who genuinely challenges and improves the current system.
✅ Salary: Approx. 4500–5500 € / month (flexible for the right profile).

Why you shouldn’t join: This is not a traditional controller role. You won’t inherit a ready-made structure or a predefined checklist – this role comes with real ownership. If you prefer stable routines, narrow scope, or responsibility defined by someone else, this won’t be your place.

Why BrandBastion Is Your Next Career Move

You might currently be a Financial Controller, Finance Specialist, Analyst, or working at the intersection of finance and operations.

Maybe you’re:

• Tired of doing one small piece of a huge corporate puzzle

• Frustrated that your insights don’t actually influence decisions

• Curious about automation, AI, and smarter ways of building finance

• Ready to take more ownership but not necessarily jump into a pure leadership role just yet

At BrandBastion, finance is a strategic enabler of growth. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped SaaS company at approximately €10M in ARR, scaling globally with steady momentum targeting +40% upcoming years. We operate with discipline, ownership, and low bureaucracy. Decisions matter, resources matter, and finance plays a central role in enabling smart, sustainable growth.

But here’s the catch: Our CFO Vesa is currently the only internal finance person. Everything is operational, but there’s a lot of opportunities for improving and scaling. Month-end close takes too long, solid data exists but doesn’t always translate into decisions fast enough to match our ambitions.

We’re hiring you because the next growth phase requires a finance function that:

• Closes faster

• Automates smarter

• Supports decision-making across the organization with real-time insights

• Makes it easier to test pricing, forecast revenue, and scale internationally

Role Details

This is a hands-on, build-and-improve role. Expect both operational ownership and structural development. Your responsibilities include:

• Owning and improving the monthly close process (target: repeatable and faster than today)

• Working closely with external accounting partners (Finland & US)

• Supporting annual audit processes

• Taking over operational finance tasks from the CFO

• Improving usage-based and enterprise billing processes

• Increasing automation (billing, reporting, expenses, data flows)

• Improving structure and visibility to revenue, costs, and profitability

• Supporting sales with pricing logic and customized offers

• Rather than just reporting, telling the story behind the numbers to our organization

A typical tasks might include:

• Reviewing billing data and spotting anomalies before they become problems

• Debugging a data flow between systems (e.g., CRM → billing → accounting)

• Preparing materials for auditors

• Improving our reporting model into a more comprehensive format

• Discussing pricing logic with Sales

• Reviewing expense data and predictive renewal analysis

• Identifying inefficiencies and redesigning a process

Who you’ll work with

Finance at BrandBastion touches everything. Your key stakeholders include:

• CFO Vesa (your manager)

• CEO/Founder Jenny and the leadership team

• Sales, Customer Success and Product & Development teams

• External accountants and auditors

What success looks like

Within the first 3–6 months:

• Month-end close is significantly faster and more structured

• Billing, core finance operations and key data flows improved

• Core finance workflows are increasingly automated and run predictably

Within 12 months:

• Processes are better documented, automated, and more scalable

• Reporting supports faster, forward-looking business decisions

• The story behind the numbers is clearly articulated and visible across the organization, improving shared understanding and decision-making

About BrandBastion

BrandBastion is a global, AI-native SaaS company helping brands manage and moderate social media conversations at scale, without losing authenticity.

The vision was born from a simple but difficult reality: major brands struggle to handle massive volumes of social media interactions while maintaining brand integrity, safety, and genuine engagement. We built technology to solve that at enterprise scale.

Today, we:

• Partner with iconic global brands ranging from entertainment and technology to beauty and fashion and many others

• Have processed over 1 billion social media interactions and been building AI driven systems for a decade already

• Operate with a remote-first global team across ~22 countries and ~27+ nationalities. English is our working language.

We are:

• Profitable

• Growing steadily

• Scaling enterprise-level clients

• Operating across multiple currencies, markets, and entities

We believe in:

• Smart people solving real problems

• Taking action when something doesn’t work

• Continuous improvement over perfection

• Learning something new every day

Benefits & practical information

The basics

• Salary: 4500–5500 € /month. We are flexible depending on your experience and impact level.

• Location: Finland-based role. Preferably hybrid in Helsinki, but fully remote in Finland is possible. 

• Language: English fluency is required. Finnish is a plus

What you get

• Real ownership and concrete impact

• Direct exposure  to leadership

• Born global SaaS experience

• A highly intelligent, action-driven, international team

• Freedom to improve systems instead of just maintaining and operate them

• Tools include: country specific accounting systems and global CRM.

How to apply

Before you apply, let’s make sure you have what it takes to succeed in this role. We’re looking for someone who:

1. Is fluent in English

2. Has ~3–5 years of experience in finance, analytics, or related operational roles

3. Understands accounting and reporting fundamentals (e.g., FAS/US GAAP basics, multi-currency setups)

4. Has strong analytical thinking and can spot anomalies in data

5. Is comfortable working in a growing, evolving environment

6. Speaks both data and AI fluently

Bonus if you:

• Enjoy automation and process improvement

• Have SaaS or tech company experience

• Have worked with usage-based billing

Application process

1. Submit your CV and a short motivation explaining why this role makes sense for you. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply early, by 15 March, 2026.

2. Initial discussion with our recruiter Linda from TalentBee. For questions, contact Linda at linda@talentbee.io

3. Interview with CFO Vesa Rikkinen

4. Case task

5. Interview with CEO and Founder Jenny Wolfram

6. Final decision

BrandBastion is a profitable, fast-growing born global SaaS company approaching €10M in revenue, operating across 27 countries with a team of around 100 professionals. We’re not slowing down! Now we’re building the finance foundation for our next growth phase. If you want to build something that scales and not just maintain what exists, this might be your role. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!