Senior Finance Manager

Senior Finance Manager – Shape the Financial Strategy Behind STARK Group IT
 

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager who combines financial expertise with strategic influence. In this role, you’ll act as the CFO‑mind for Group IT - bringing transparency, governance, and value creation to one of STARK Group’s most critical functions. Technology is a growth engine for our business, and your work will shape how we invest and deliver impact across the organisation.

This is not a traditional finance role. You will be the financial voice in a complex, international IT setup. You’ll have a direct line to the Group IT CIO and a seat at the IT leadership table, giving you influence over major decisions and transformation initiatives. You’ll lead a small, dedicated finance team and collaborate closely with Group Finance, ensuring that our IT investments are not only well‑managed but deliver measurable business value.
 

What you will deliver

As our new Senior Finance Manager, your mission is to make IT spend transparent, strategic, and value driven. Success in this role means creating a finance function that is trusted, transparent, and indispensable to decision-making. Within your first year you will have:

• Delivered high-quality, accurate financial planning, reporting, and business cases by establishing disciplined processes and clear assumptions.
• Created full transparency on IT spend, investment pipeline, and performance outcomes through dashboards and regular portfolio reviews.
• Earned strong stakeholder trust by providing proactive analysis, timely input, and actionable recommendations.
• Embedded finance into governance and audits with timely, data-driven input and robust controls.
• Raised financial maturity in Group IT, driving transparency, accountability, and alignment with Group Finance standards. 

What you will do

You will help ensure that we not only build the right solutions – but build them right, at the right cost, with clear accountability. With your small dedicated finance team, you will:

• Act as the trusted financial partner to the CIO and IT leadership, advising on strategy, challenging decisions, and ensuring value creation.
• Own the financial planning cycle and portfolio performance—budgets, forecasts, long-term outlook—while developing and challenging business cases for major IT investments.
• Embed finance into governance and controls, serving as gatekeeper in project and portfolio management, and providing timely input to decision forums.
• Collaborate closely with Group Finance to align reporting, cost allocation, and financial standards across the organisation.
• Lead and develop your finance team, ensuring high-quality insights, scenario modelling, and proactive risk/opportunity assessments. 

What You Bring

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager who thrives in complexity and creates structure where others see uncertainty. You’re someone who can zoom out to challenge strategic direction and zoom in to follow up on project actuals - all in the same day.
You likely bring:

• Proven experience (5+ years) as a Senior Finance Business Partner, consultant, or similar role in a tech-heavy or project-driven environment.
• Deep financial expertise in budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and performance reporting, combined with strong analytical skills.
• Strategic influence and stakeholder management - you can advise and challenge senior leaders while building trust across functions.
• Strong communication skills, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for non-financial audiences.
• Leadership through coaching, developing others and fostering collaboration, with resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Welcome to Group IT

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 group-wide business-critical IT solutions. We aim to modernize and reimagine the IT landscape to ensure both scalability and composability to meet existing and future business needs, and we would like your input to rethink the way things are done in our industry to offer our customers an extraordinary experience.
 

Want to know more and apply?
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding the position and your options in STARK Group. You are welcome to contact HR-Manager Sandie Overby at sandie.overby@stark.dk for any specific questions regarding the role.
 

Stark Group

STARK Group is a growing private equity-owned company with a solid legacy. STARK Group was 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 skilled 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 equip professional craftsmen with heavy building materials all the way from the Austrian Alps to Tromsø, close to the Arctic circle and everywhere in between. STARK Group is committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 across the entire business, is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and works within fully 2030 validated science-based targets to keep global warming below 1.5°C

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 believe in a workplace where everyone can bring their authenctic selves to work.

Agency Policy

STARK Group IT appreciates the interest of all candidates. However, we prefer to directly engage with candidates seeking employment opportunities. Therefore, we kindly request recruitment agencies, headhunters, and third-party staffing services to refrain from contacting us regarding this job posting. All applications should be submitted directly by the candidates through our official application process. We value direct communication and look forward to reviewing your application.