Business Controller at Ardoq Keep the numbers honest and help one of Europe’s most ambitious scale-ups understand what they mean.<h2>The Ardoq Story</h2>Ardoq is one of Norway’s most exciting scale-ups — a truly global company built out of Oslo. We are a SaaS platform that helps organizations understand, manage, and evolve their complex digital landscape. By providing a dynamic, collaborative “digital twin” of their business, we connect systems, people, and processes to drive better decision-making and accelerate digital transformation.Today, we help some of the world’s most complex organizations (like ExxonMobil and British Telecom) gain clarity in a changing world. We are backed by leading global tech investors, including EQT and One Peak, giving us the stability of a mature company with the speed and soul of a startup.<h2>About the Role</h2>Ardoq is growing fast — and with that growth comes real financial complexity. Our SaaS revenue model, multi-region operations, and increasingly ambitious planning cycles require someone who can hold the numbers to a high standard while helping the business understand what they mean. That’s where you come in.As Business Controller, you will sit at the intersection of financial discipline and business insight. You’ll own the close process, ensure our P&L reflects reality, and build the financial models and management reports that our leaders rely on to make good decisions. At the same time, you’ll be a genuine partner to the business — translating operational context into financial clarity and helping us plan for what comes next.This role matters because our ability to grow confidently depends on having clean books, sharp forecasts, and financial reporting that stakeholders can trust. You will directly enable that.<h2>What you’ll do</h2><ul><li>Own the monthly and quarterly close: Prepare accruals, deferrals, and reclassifications so our financials are accurate, well-documented, and reconciled to the underlying data.</li><li>Drive management reporting: Deliver monthly and quarterly reports that give functional leaders a clear, reliable view of revenue, cost, KPIs, and variances, with explanations they can act on.</li><li>Build and maintain financial models: Develop scenario analyses and budgeting models that support operational and strategic decisions across the business.</li><li>Own cost structure and P&L integrity: Maintain the definitions and data structures that underpin how we report costs, ensuring consistency as the business scales.</li><li>Surface insights proactively: Spot trends, risks, and efficiency opportunities and bring them forward, with evidence and a recommended course of action.</li><li>Improve financial systems and workflows: Contribute to the ongoing development of our ERP, CRM, and FP&A tooling to raise data quality and reporting capability.</li><li>Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with Accounting, and with functional leaders across the business, to ensure financial information is accurate, understood, and acted upon.</li></ul><h2>On a typical day, you will</h2>Reconcile last month’s close entries and investigate a variance flag from the revenue team. Prepare a variance commentary for the CFO pack that actually explains what happened, not just what the numbers say. Update a scenario model to reflect a change in headcount assumptions. Sit down with a functional leader to

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