Regional Business Controller

Your role

The Specialty Rental Divisions’ worldview is to enable our customers, our people and our societies to flourish in an increasingly complex world. Our vision is to remain the world's most trusted partner by solving complex industrial challenges with specialized agile solutions. Those are designed and implemented by passionate people who continually strive for new best ways.

We are looking for a Regional Business Controller - Rental North and Central Europe.  

As Regional Business Controller, you will be a responsible for guiding the sustainable, inclusive, and profitable growth of our newly created region “Atlas Copco Specialty Rental North and Central Europe”.  This role collaborates with the General Manager and leadership team, delivering financial insights, improving performance, and fostering a culture of continuous development. 

The Regional Business Controller promotes the company's values, drives alignment with divisional goals, and ensures compliance with global and local standards. You will report to the Regional General Manager and will be a key member of the Regional Management team.

The Mission

Your mission is to support and promote the Atlas Copco Group core values: Interaction, Commitment and Innovation, as well as the Specialty Rental values: Curious, Passionate, Caring and Positive.

You support the Group’s vision ‘First in Mind & First in Choice’ by focusing on and continuously promoting and developing a Customer-Value and a Customer-Care driven culture, based on the Specialty Rental purpose: “To enable our customers to thrive in an increasingly complex world.”

To be successful in your mission it is fundamental to perform in the following areas

Financial Leadership & Compliance:
• Oversee accurate, on-time financial (OTIF) reporting
• Provide financial performance improvement guidance to GM and senior leadership
• Ensure compliance with The Way We Do Things and local regulations
• Lead internal and external audit coordination
• Safeguard financial processes and policies

• Taking care of the legal and compliance aspects of the business
• Ensuring that the company has an efficient internal control environment to protect the Company’s assets

Team & Talent Development:
• Build and mentor a high-performing finance team
• Foster a culture of psychological safety and growth mindset
• Drive employee retention and development through coaching and succession planning
• Promote equal opportunity hiring and performance enablement practices

Business Strategy & Execution:
• Align financial strategy with overall company vision and ASR purpose
• Set action priorities and lead execution to meet revenue, profitability, and efficiency targets

Extended focus areas are

Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Partner with HR, Marketing, and Operations to optimize fleet utilization
• Support the GM with acquisitions, legal, insurance, trade compliance, and IT security topics
• Participate in site development projects (new depots or relocations)
• Coordinate with Finance Hub to drive efficiency and cost savings

Process Improvement & Innovation:
• Take a key role in the implementation and support of the SPARK program
• Identify weaknesses, develop plans, and prioritize execution
• Develop robust understanding of cross-functional business processes

Other Responsibilities:

• Represent and promote Atlas Copco and Specialty Rental values
• Ensure proper use of company resources
• Provide transparency in receivables collection
• Support the organization’s Scope 1, 2, and 3 emission reduction targets
• Elaborate investment business cases in line with divisional guidelines
• Maintain clear communication across all levels and departments
• Inspire teams with Specialty Rental purpose and cultural strategy

Performance Metrics (to evaluate performance, or that are impacted by the role):

• Financial Efficiency: 3% cost efficiency improvement annually
• Fleet Utilization: ≥60%
• Employee Retention Rate Improvement
• Training & Development: Team development progress and succession readiness
• New ERP (SPARK) Program Adoption Rate
• Audit Findings Resolved and Compliance Metrics
• Timeliness and Accuracy of Financial Reports

To succeed, you will need

Education:

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or related field
• Preferred: Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or business administration

Experience:

• Required:
• 5+ years of experience in financial leadership roles
• 3+ years in people management
• Experience in multinational or matrixed environments
• Preferred:
• Background in rental services, equipment, or manufacturing industry
• Experience with M&A financial analysis

In return, we offer

• We believe and foster a learning culture where global mobility is an important enabler for growth.
• Our learning culture supports you on your journey: benefit from our individual learning opportunities (LinkedIn Learning e.g.), our feedback culture, the internal job portal, global project assignments, or face-to-face training sessions.
• You will experience a onboarding program
• We support you and your well-being with different programs like team events, and more.
• We offer health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• We offer Paid time off, Life & Disability Insurance
• We offer a salary based on experience.

Job location

As Regional Business Controller, you will be based in our regional HQ in Warsaw, Poland.  

About us

Atlas Copco Rental North and Central Europe is part of the Atlas Copco Group, specialized in rental of temporary compressed air, nitrogen, power and steam solutions for industrial customers in Europe. This rental and service organization counts diverse sectors, such as the oil processing industry, manufacturing industry and power plants among its customers.

Thanks to close cooperation at European level, Atlas Copco Rental can rely on a particularly large rental fleet. In addition, Atlas Copco Rental offers solutions tailored to the customer, with a tailored 24/7 service.