Welcome to HARIBO, Europe's largest and most successful sugar-confectionery brand! Our mission is to bring happiness to kids and grown-ups and we're looking for talented people to join our team to help us spread some joy!
Senior Commercial Controller
Start: As of now in Vallensbæk / DenmarkAt HARIBO, we believe work should have the right mix of structure, collaboration and a little bit of joy. To strengthen our Nordic Finance organization, we are now looking for a Senior Commercial Controller in Vallensbæk, who will report directly to the Head of Controlling, Nordic.
In this role, you will be responsible for Denmark as a sales company and act as a key business partner to the Danish commercial team.
You will support the business and work closely with both commercial and leadership teams to provide strong financial insight, transparency and decision support.
This role is ideal for someone who is not afraid to get close to the daily operations and understand how things work behind the scenes. In the beginning, success will come from being hands-on, curious and comfortable diving into the details, processes and routines that keep the business running smoothly.
At the same time, this role offers a great opportunity to make it your own. Once there is a strong understanding of the operational foundation, you will have the chance to shape the role further and define how you can create the greatest value as a trusted and successful partner to the business.
Our mix that awaits you
This is a role with both responsibility and variety. You will take ownership of the full P&L, including month-end closing, reporting, accruals and trade expenditure, as well as budgeting and forecasting. You will also prepare presentations and commentary for the management team, monitor commercial KPIs, and support decision-making through pricing guidance, annual agreements, business cases and ad hoc analysis. On top of that, you will help improve our controlling processes, tools and ways of working.
You will become part of the Controlling Team, which consists of 6 employees, and you will report to the Head of Controlling.
Ingredients that you bring with you
- A degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or a similar field.
- 5+ years of commercial controlling experience, ideally from FMCG or Retail.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a solid understanding of financial statements and accounting basics.
- A clear, structured communication style and the ability to make complex matters easy to understand.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Excellent Excel skills: SAP experience is a strong advantage.
- Fluent in English.
Just as importantly, you are reliable, accountable and take ownership naturally. You are detail-oriented, pragmatic and comfortable working hands-on, while also being able to navigate a certain degree of ambiguity. You enjoy being part of a team and contributing where it makes a difference.
At HARIBO, you will join a collaborative and ambitious environment where people support each other, share knowledge and work together to keep the business moving forward.
Life at HARIBO means
- Competitive salary
- Bonus
- Pension plan & health insurance
- 5 extra ”feriefridage” after 9 months seniority
- A supportive and dynamic induction period
- Free onsite parking
- Discount on our lovely products
- Really good canteen
- Own designated desk in the office
- And of course sweet treats!
Your application
Does this sound exciting?
Become part of the HARIBO family! Submit your application and CV via the job posting. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as we regularly conduct interviews.
We look forward to receiving your application.
The HARIBO family
You will be part of a successful family business with traditional values that is growing internationally at a faster pace than ever before. We believe in long-term employee relationships, a good work-life balance, training and a fair share in company success. We make every effort to support our employees – every day anew.
We embrace the colourful HARIBO world as a successful family business out of conviction – and have done so for 100 years. We are popular the world over, as we systematically focus all our efforts on fruit gummy indulgence. We can thus also grow internationally at a faster pace than ever before.
This unique success is based on our team spirit as a close-knit HARIBO family. We entrust people with responsibility and freedom, so that they can always make the best decisions. When it comes to business, we focus on long-term success, with quality our top priority: from top products to our interaction with the people who make up our team and surround us, we keep our promises.
Unbeatable passion like this comes from childlike joy, as we enjoy working at HARIBO. And this is something we pass on – day after day.

