Finance Director - Strukton Rail

About Strukton Group

Strukton is a leading service provider in sustainable infrastructure, focusing on green transport and electrification. With passion and energy, they integrate their century of craftmanship with the latest technology and innovation. Safety, quality, and sustainability always come first. In their 100 years of business, they have developed a strong base in their home countries: Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Strukton Group has over 4000 employees and generates an annual revenue of EUR 1.6 billion.

Markets
Strukton’s strength is integrating technical fields like rail and civil engineering. It is in those markets that they wish to make an impact:

Rail infrastructure (Strukton Rail)
Maintenance, renewal, and new construction of rail infrastructure (light rail and heavy rail), and integration with other public transport systems.

Civil infrastructure (Strukton Civil)
Design, realization, management, and maintenance of civil infrastructure. Roads, tunnels, bridges, locks, and other structures.

Strukton Rail
Thanks to decades of knowledge and experience, Strukton Rail can count itself among the rail industry leaders in Europe. It has sound maintenance expertise and is at the heart of ground-breaking technological developments. Strukton Rail connects rail infrastructure, rolling stock, and electrical systems.

Strukton Rail in Europe

While their roots are firmly in the Netherlands, they now count Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy as a part of their domestic market.

• Railway installations:
  o Maintenance, reinvestment, and new construction of railway installations.
• Asset management:
  o Monitors the status of track switches and track installations with sensors.
  o Measurement and data collection and analysis.
• International machinery fleet:
  o Machines for track replacement, ballast cleaning, track stabilization, and overhead contact lines.
  o Track-bound crane trucks.
  o Locomotive.
• Rolling Stock:
  o Repair of locomotives and wagons.
  o Customized solutions: One-to-one replacement to modernize electrical and motor.
  o equipment.

Strukton in the Nordics

Strukton Rail’s operations in the Nordic region are centralized in Sweden, with Danish activities handled by the subsidiary Strukton Rail A/S Danmark.

The Danish Managing Director (MD) operates under Gustav Oscarsson, who serves as the MD for Strukton Rail Nordics.

Strukton in Denmark

Strukton Rail A/S has about 130 employees and generates annual sales of DKK 500 million. The company specializes in renewing and building railway infrastructure in Denmark, with Bane Danmark as the main principal. Strukton Rail shows commitment and pride in its employees, who often have a significant personal interest in track and railways.

Strukton Rail A/S is mainly active in railway construction and renewal projects—from the new construction of track and station facilities to railways, subways, and tracks in urban environments and industry. The company constructs new railway installations, carries out modernization measures and complex BEST projects, tracks and sleepers, switch replacements, ducting, cable lowering and repair, and new construction of signaling systems and overhead contact lines. They deliver safe, sustainable, cost-effective solutions with commitment, high technical competence, and responsibility.
Strukton Rail A/S works closely with Strukton Rail AB, based in Stockholm.

Strukton Rail A/S borrows equipment from Sweden and the Netherlands. Strukton Group has an extensive fleet of railway machines. The larger machines are part of Strukton’s international machinery pool and are deployed across the countries as needed.

In Denmark, the leading projects involve, e.g., the new construction of signals and railway installations and reinvestment work such as track replacements.

Values

The colleagues at Strukton Rail A/S work according to the ‘SPOR’ principles: what they stand for and how they work, meet employees, customers, and the outside world. SPOR is the basis for the work process, which is about creating a good working environment for our employees, being a stable and reliable supplier to our customers, and contributing to safe and punctual rail traffic.

The SPOR letters stand for:
S – Sikkerhed – Safety – We work safely or not at all. 
P – Pålidelig – Reliable – We deliver on our promises; we complete our projects to the agreed quality, time, and finances.
O – Optimisme og realisme – Optimism and realism – We are optimists and realists. We have a positive approach to challenges and seek sustainable and realistic solutions.
R – Respekt – Respect – We respect each other. Our communication with each other and our customers is based on respect.

The position

Strukton Denmark is looking for a Finance Director for Denmark who can professionalize and structure the local company and ensure processes and governance in line with Group policies are in place. This person must be operational, engage with relationships, and understand the dynamics of a rail market characterized by an oligopsony, with a few clients and many competitors.

The Finance Director reports directly to the to Danish MD and is part of the management team and dotted line to CFO Nordics, he also reports functionally to the Nordics CFO. The finance department currently consists of 4 people (project controller, the debitor administrator, the creditor administrator, the accounting manager , and there currently one open controller position). The work will involve driving the financial overview and reporting for Strukton A/S in close collaboration with colleagues throughout the organization.

The primary tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Overall responsibility for the finance department and visible leadership in daily operations.
• Hands-on / operational involvement of monthly closing processes.
• Liquidity management/Working Capital Management.
• System ownership, including the development of the company’s systems. New ERP system is expected to be implemented during year 2026.
• Project meetings with project managers / production (monthly follow-up on ongoing projects).
• Various analyses and reporting, including external reporting, and being the architect of major analyses and reports.
• Preparation of business cases, simulations, consequences, and risk mitigation.
• Relationship owner with external partners, including auditors, insurance companies, banks, leasing companies, vehicle fleet suppliers, etc.
• Year-end closing consolidated financial statements in collaboration with auditors, as well as VAT and tax.
• Be able to develop and optimize the business.

The new Finance Director will have the opportunity to influence the content of the position and independently make a difference, contributing to the further professionalization and digitalization of the finance area.

It is a unique opportunity to be part of an international, value-driven company that enjoys high recognition in the railway sector and is professionally run, where integrity and quality are paramount.

Success criteria:

The new Finance Director will be measured on their ability to lead, motivate, and achieve results in collaboration with the management team and the organization, as defined by the responsibilities outlined in the role. More specifically:

• Strong knowledge in project accounts, management and reporting of finances (including ongoing work, POC, cash flow, etc.).
• Categorization and management of Back Office (overhead) costs.
• IT management (internal, laptops, phones, etc.) Driven by Sweden.
• Active participation in strategy creation and execution.

Personal Characteristics

• Value-driven, Structured and decisive.
• Strong communicator, both internally and externally.
• High stamina for handling challenges.
• Straightforward approach with a preference for clear and simple solutions.
• Strong commercial drive and business acumen.
• Solid, mature personality that fosters transparency and builds confidence with organization and stakeholders.
• Academic degree in business administration and/or engineering or similar acquired competence from work experience.
• Strong knowledge from construction, civil engineering.
• Fluent in Danish and very good English.

For more information

Please contact: Managing Partner Christian Rolin Mail: rolin@peoplement.dk Phone +45 22 16 27 15

You can apply for the position using this link.

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