Student Assistant – Financial Controlling (Onshore)

You will join the Onshore Financial Controlling team in Business Area (BA) Wind. The team oversees budgeting, performance tracking, and cost optimisation for our onshore wind portfolio across multiple European markets. By turning raw data into actionable insights, Financial Controlling helps ensure our projects deliver maximum value while supporting Vattenfall’s broader sustainability goals.

Be in your element with BA Wind

As part of BA Wind you will play a key role in one of the most exciting pipelines in the industry with 24GW of capacity stretching out more than a decade ahead across our key European markets.

You won’t only be involved in developing projects but pioneering cutting-edge innovation, new business models and ways of working with communities and the environment. Working as part of a leading European utility also means you could be helping a growing number of major businesses and brands achieve their own sustainability goals through partnerships.

Vattenfall is a leading European energy company driving the transition to a sustainable energy system. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We employ around 21 000 people mostly in our core markets in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.

Your role / what will you do? 

As a Student Assistant, you will work 15–20 hours per week (flexible around exams) alongside experienced controllers, gaining hands-on exposure to project reporting and cost management. From updating key reports to running data-quality checks, you’ll play an important part in keeping our financial information accurate, timely, and decision-ready. The role offers a practical springboard into corporate finance and renewable-energy project controlling—ideal for students eager to apply classroom theory to real-world challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Update the monthly FTE report with the latest actuals.
• Run the actuals-update cycle for Market & Site Development projects.
• Support in maintaining the Cost Control Tool for UK and German onshore projects.
• Support in updating CAPEX plan for MSD projects
• Perform data-quality checks in MSD (Market & Site Development) reports.
• Request new SAP master-data items (e.g., WBS elements) in coordination with project controllers.

• Assist the team with minor analyses, presentations, or data extractions as needed.

Your profile / who are you? 

You are a proactive, detail-oriented bachelor student who enjoys working with numbers and translating them into clear insights. Comfortable in multicultural environments, you like collaborating with colleagues from different disciplines and feel at ease communicating in English—whether explaining a spreadsheet or preparing a slide deck. An open mindset, willingness to learn, and curiosity about renewable-energy finance will help you thrive in our fast-moving team.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor programme (or early master) in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills; familiarity with Power BI is a plus.
• Comfortable handling large data sets and performing basic data-quality checks.
• Excellent spoken and written English; other European languages are an advantage.
• Team player who is open, active, and able to work in multicultural settings.

We look forward to receiving your application! 

Location  Kolding, Denmark

Our offer

Are you looking for more than just a job? Our involvement at every stage of projects means you’ll be able to find your element working with the power of wind and solar in a role where your skills and experience will be leveraged to the maximum.

You’ll benefit from limitless opportunities to grow in your element through learning and development and to expand your horizons working across our diverse portfolio.

We strive to be the best place to work in the industry with highly competitive pay and conditions and an open, supportive culture. A commitment to a healthy work-life balance aims to ensure everyone plays to their strengths.

The scale of our ambition means we need to bring together people from many different backgrounds and experiences. You will be part of a growing team of 1,700+ colleagues from 50+ nationalities where our positive approach to diversity is reflected in the fact that more than a quarter of staff are women.

More Information 

For more information about the position you are welcome to contact Nataliya Ivanova, nataliya.ivanova@vattenfall.com. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Christian Pathuel, christian.pathuel@vattenfall.com  

We welcome your application in English no later than 25.06.2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website. 

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to building a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information. 

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall and will be performed by a third party, Validata. 

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classified the final candidates might be subject to a security vetting process, according to Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application!