The Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto ARTS) is a Nordic leader in higher education for design, fashion, game design, media, architecture, film, art education and fine art. We are a diverse community of professionals, with great appreciation for creativity and responsibility. We produce world-class research and educate front-line professionals and visionaries for established, changing and emerging fields. We are tackling societal grand challenges head-on and striving towards a sustainable, just society and environment.
Are you interested in working towards enabling top quality research, pioneering education, trend-setting art and society-renewing collaboration?
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture is seeking an ASSISTANT CONTROLLER for a fixed term position to work in a vibrant and inspiring community of students, researchers and experts. The work begins at Spring 2025 as soon as possible and ends 30th June, 2026.
Your role and goals
Your main responsibility is supporting and coaching the academic departments in financial administration – ensuring a solid base for education portfolio management from financial point of view with close cooperation with HR and Learning services. You report to the department controller and work closely with the whole finance team.
Your daily tasks include financial management, reporting and planning of the educational budgets. You work closely with department’s controller to ensure the quality of department’s financial management. You also participate to development of financial processes and reporting. You use your problem-solving skills to support academic faculty with financial matters and you have a genuine desire to understand the operations behind the numbers. Your tasks include specific responsibilities such as financial administration of the study programs (monitoring, reporting and participation in budgeting) and collaboration projects with companies, communities, universities and public sector.

Your experience and ambitions

• You have good knowledge in accounting, financial administration and understanding of the financial processes and tools.
• You have already gained 2-5 years of broader experience within financial administration/controlling/financial management and have a Bachelor´s or Master´s degree from relevant field.
• You communicate fluently in Finnish and English.
• You have a customer service-oriented mindset and you can work independently and hands-on.
• You are eager to learn new systems.
• You have strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills and you can see the big picture. Your approach to work is independent, precise and responsible.
• You have the ability to handle challenging situations in a constructive and positive manner and you are used to deadlines.
• We hope you will challenge our thinking with your forward-looking approach and open new perspectives.

Join us!
We are committed in ambitiously building a better world and we offer you a chance to participate and contribute to realizing our vision as a member of our team. Join us in an inspiring community of students, researchers and experts, where we promote socially significant goals in the fields of science and education. We offer you the opportunity to participate in developing financial management services within a professional community. You will receive thorough orientation for the role and the support of the team.
We offer flexible working hours and possibility to work partly remote. We offer comprehensive health care and opportunities for personal development both through work and personnel training. Salary is based on University salary system level 8. Depending on the selected candidate’s experience, monthly salary ranges between 3200 and 3500€ per month.
If you want to join our community and make a difference, send your motivation letter and CV no later than Sunday 30th of March through our recruitment system (below “Apply now!”). The Interviews will take place on April 7th and 8th. If you are already an employee at Aalto, please apply through your Workday employee profile (internal jobs). If you are a student or visitor at Aalto, please apply using your personal email address (not aalto.fi) through the external open positions page.
For more information regarding the position, please contact Controller Minna Latva-Salo either by email
minna.latva-salo@aalto.fi
or by phone (+358 46 923 6505) on Tuesday 25th of March between 13:00 – 16:00. For questions related to applying, please contact
hr-arts@aalto.fi
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