Senior Controlling Manager, Technology

Finance partner for R&D investments and assets

Join NKT as a Senior Controlling Manager supporting Technology and R&D, where you will partner with technical teams to ensure transparent financial governance, clear business cases, and value from investments in a company contributing to the green transition. This role connects finance with innovation and asset management across an international organisation. Do you want to work closely with engineers and decision-makers to shape how R&D investments create measurable value?

Support financial planning, analysis and R&D investments

In this position, you act as a finance partner to the Technology and R&D organisation, ensuring proper governance of costs and assets while enabling well-informed decisions. You work with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business cases, translating complex data into clear insights for stakeholders.

Your responsibility will be to:

• Develop financial insights and partner with Technology and R&D stakeholders.
• Manage R&D controlling, including project tracking, budgeting, and asset governance.
• Prepare and validate business cases for technology and investment projects.
• Oversee financial planning, reporting, and variance analysis.
• Enhance transparency through dashboards and performance monitoring.

You will report to the SVP Corporate Finance and Distribution and collaborate across an international setup. The role is based in Kaunas.

Structured communicator with collaborative mindset in finance

You are detail-oriented, structured, and comfortable working with both financial and non-financial stakeholders. You communicate clearly, handle your responsibilities, and approach challenges with a problem-solving mindset. You are curious about processes and aim to improve how financial insights support decisions.

You also have:

• A Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar.
• 5–10 years of experience in business controlling, within R&D or technology environments.
• Experience with investment analysis, business case preparation, and FP&A.
• Knowledge of asset accounting, including intangible and tangible assets.
• Experience with ERP systems (such as SAP), advanced Excel, and tools like Power BI.
• Experience from international or matrix organizations.

Contribute to sustainable growth through financial insight

NKT is committed to developing a diverse organization and culture where people of diverse backgrounds can grow and are inspired to do their best. We are dedicated to establishing gender diversity at NKT and encouraging all interested candidates to apply – even if you don’t tick all the boxes described. We believe that a diverse organization enables long-term performance, and that an inclusive and welcoming culture creates a better work environment.

You will be part of a collaborative finance environment with opportunities to develop your skills and work across functions in an international context. The role offers exposure to strategic investment decisions and the opportunity to contribute to the development of future technologies supporting the green transition.

Benefits and opportunities we provide

We offer you a modern office at Kauno Dokas with workplace where your knowledge and experience matter and also full of learning opportunities, and potential. In addition, we are offering:

• Opportunity to be a part of the global team.
• Interesting challenges and tasks, learning opportunities.
• Private health insurance.
• Additional 4 days of paid holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Tai chi classes on a regular basis.
• Company-funded access to Linkedin Learning platform.
• Free parking next to the office.

Salary range for this position is from 5300 Eur to 6500 Eur Gross

Read more about our offer and listen to some voices of NKT Connectors here!

Aware that personality and cognitive tests might be included in the recruitment process. We will review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match. We collect confidential candidate experience feedback to improve our recruitment process. Your responses are for quality development only and do not affect hiring decisions.  If you have any questions, please reach out to Talent Attraction Specialist at kevin.strack@nkt.com. Please note that due to the GDPR regulations we cannot accept any applications via e-mail.

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About NKT
NKT connects a greener world with high-quality power cable technology and takes centre stage as the world moves towards green energy. NKT designs, manufactures and installs low-, medium- and high-voltage power cable solutions enabling sustainable energy transmission. Since 1891, NKT has innovated the power cable technology building the infrastructure for the first light bulbs to the megawatts created by renewable energy today. NKT is headquartered in Denmark and employs 6,500 people. NKT is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and realised a revenue of EUR 3.6 billion in 2025. We connect a greener world. www.nkt.com