Business Controller

Business Controller to Alva Labs
Meet Malcolm (https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmburenstamlinder/), Alva’s CEO and co-founder. He is running an HR tech-startup on a quest to disrupt the way of hiring. But he is drowning in finance work… Budgets, business analytics, salaries, financial planning, credit controls etc. No time left to bounce around and be boss. So he needs an outstanding business controller to make his life easier, and foremost, to help Alva grow. Please come tell our CEO how to run his company!

Alva in a nutshell
Alva Labs’ unique candidate assessment platform helps companies build their organizations with the right people in the right place. By combining state-of-the-art psychometrics, data science, and an obsession with candidate experience, it provides the needed tool for data-driven talent acquisition. The platform is built to enable scale and automation through smooth integrations with ATSs, automated test feedback, and unprecedented ease of use. Through its large focus on candidate experience, Alva also offers the next generation’s talent-centric assessment solution.

We are growing 2-3x per year and are in the exciting phase to launch Alva in new markets. Our current client stock consists of everything from start-up to enterprise. Come and help us shape the companies of tomorrow.

Why is this role important to us
With a growing customer base, growing team, fundraising and more, the financial responsibility for Alva is on the rise and it’s time to raise the bar on how we manage our finances.

What will you do
- Financial planning & reporting
- Manage salary models and payouts
- Manage income and cash flow forecasting
- Investigate variances in budget and product revenue forecast with the management team
- Own relationship with bookkeeping and accountant agency
- Own and manage revenue and subscription management
- Support CEO in fundraising and investor relations
- General Business analytics and ad-hoc strategic projects


Who are you
- Organized and diligent, with a very high level of integrity
- Initiative taking (sorry, there will be no clear instructions, you tell us how to run this)
- Strong communicator
- Spreadsheet ninja
- Finance and Accounting background


What have you done before

We don’t really care where you went to school or where you have worked before. It would be neat if you have juggled a couple of spreadsheets, worked with accounting and budgeting, and ideally, you have both experience and some sort of education within finance.

Swedish is not a demand for this role, we have English as our internal language anyways.

About our team

We are currently a team of 25 happy campers, based in central Stockholm with a collective and extensive experience of building and growing tech companies. Psychology, Psychometrics, Data Science, Engineering and Product Design are just a few of the areas that we juggle.

We are a truly diverse team, representing 10 nationalities and a widespread of professional backgrounds. So in the (at the moment virtual) lunchroom, you will find yourself chit chatting with great engineers, psychologists, statisticians, experts in design or marketing magicians.

Why you should join our team:

- We are a startup, going scale up. You will have the opportunity to really make a mark, impact how we do business and how we grow.
- This is and will be one of the biggest shifts within the digitization of HR and People operations, be part of it!
- What we do has a great impact on our customers' performance and the way they operate their businesses
- We aim to live as we learn with a high-performing team that values work flexibility, transparency and the combination of successful goal striving with work-life balance.
- Perhaps you will be interested in 7 weeks of vacation? Check out our benefits (https://www.notion.so/alvalabs/Benefits-1abeeb8de8004f6ab915f2fced70f057)!
- Oh, and yes. You will have A LOT of fun! ;)


Welcome to Alva!