Business Controller, Products & Purchasing

KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.

KONE Finance professionals are responsible for corporate controlling and reporting, treasury, taxes, investor relations, as well as finance development and alliances and acquisitions. We support our business colleagues by driving a financially sound business direction and providing relevant intelligence for decision-making. With dedicated roles and global communities for support, our Finance function is a community with a high level of professionalism and ample opportunities for learning and growth.

We are looking for a highly motivated

Business Controller, Products and Purchasing

for KONE Supply Chain Europe based in Espoo or Hyvinkää, Finland or Pero, Italy.

The candidate will join the Supply Chain Europe Finance Team. She/he supports key business leaders in driving and monitoring the business performance by providing financial insight. She/he ensures KONE business activities are conducted in accordance with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM), and that financial impacts are measured and reported following the KONE accounting standards and instructions. The purpose of the role is also to ensure that business KPIs are logical and add value, actions are defined based on performance, and that benefit realizations are delivered. Business Controller is also accountable for executing the planning process according to global guidelines with the business leaders.

The preferred start would be in early Q2 2026.

Your Responsibilities and key activities

• Drive business partnering with a strong outside in mindset, ensuring a deep understanding of the business logic, value creation drivers, and dependencies across all key operational processes, relationships, and performance metrics

• Act as the key finance professional and trusted advisor across the full value chain, promoting strong finance understanding and full chain profitability thinking within the business organization, and ensuring financial implications are considered in all decision-making

• Partner closely with supply chain management, technology, product management, purchasing, and logistics to steer product cost and profitability performance across the entire product life cycle—from roadmap planning and business case preparation to execution, product lifecycle management, and benefit realization—ensuring end to end financial impact is fully assessed

• Manage and analyze supply chain financial performance with full chain transparency, providing insights on product cost, full chain profitability, logistics costs, inventory, and other key indicators that support management decision-making and drive value optimization across the entire value stream

• Lead Product Cost and Profitability planning and analysis, covering material, manufacturing, logistics, and other value chain cost components, ensuring holistic understanding of cost drivers and improvement opportunities

• Facilitating the planning and forecasting processes

• Perform or organize the execution of the business controlling tasks as defined in KONE Financial Control Model

Requirements for the role:

• At least 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an industrial environment, including product cost and profitability planning, analysis and business partnering with supply chain management, technology, product management, procurement and logistics functions

• Excellent analytical and communication skills, coupled with the ability to build trust and collaboration among business leaders/stakeholders

• Ability to work and influence in a complex matrix organization with a wide range of stakeholders

• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge

• SAP ERP (FICO) and BI knowledge is a must

• Good organizational, process planning and change management skills

• Fluent in English

• M. Sc in Finance or Business Administration

Want to #JoinOurFlow ?

Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. We offer you an opportunity to work with interesting and challenging tasks in an innovative, global company. We strive for an inclusive and relaxed atmosphere where every individual is respected.

If this opportunity sounds like an inspiring challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and CV through our Careers site by May 5th 2026 at the latest. Please be aware that we may start reviewing applications already during the application period.

For additional information, please contact Heikki Koistinen, Finance Director, KONE Supply Chain Europe, Tel +358503036741, or via email: heikki.koistinen@kone.com.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/