Since launching in 2015, BookBeat has rapidly grown into a leading European streaming service for books. In 2024, we achieved 21% revenue growth, SEK 1.36 billion in revenue, profitability, and surpassed one million paying users. But this is just the beginning. Our mission is to make books a natural part of more people’s everyday lives, and we’re now seeking an analytical, strategic and engaged CFO to help scale BookBeat into its next chapter.

The CFO will be a key partner to the CEO in developing BookBeat’s overall financial strategy and a key executive leadership team member. The role's focus will be BookBeat’s financial performance, ensuring that our accounting is accurate and compliant in our different markets and providing strategic insights vital for our continued profitable growth. As CFO, you will have the main responsibility for our finance function of 14 people, responsible for FP&A, reporting, legal, and risk management.

Based at our headquarters on Sveavägen 56 in central Stockholm, you’ll collaborate with 160 team members across development, marketing,  data, analysis, and books. As part of Bonnier Books and Bonnier Group, you’ll also engage with group companies and central functions, ensuring strong financial alignment.

To thrive at BookBeat, you’ll need to combine analytical and strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

At BookBeat, you won’t be navigating a turnaround – you’ll be leading an exciting scale-up journey. As part of a fast-growing, profitable company backed by Bonnier Books and Bonnier Group, you’ll have the opportunity to shape our financial strategy while working alongside talented colleagues in development, marketing, and books. We foster a dynamic culture where bold ideas and data-driven decisions power our growth.

Key responsibilities

• Shape BookBeat’s long-term financial strategy to drive scalable and profitable growth.
• Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring data-driven decision-making.
• Oversee financial reporting and compliance across multiple markets, ensuring best-in-class accounting, risk assessment and governance.
• Drive data-driven decision-making through financial insights and analytics.
• Optimize cash flow management and operational efficiency.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the finance team.

Who you are

• At least 7+ years of proven experience as a CFO or in a senior financial leadership role, ideally in a high-growth tech, media, or subscription-based business.
• Proven ability to translate financial data into actionable insights that influence company strategy.
• Great at presenting financial reports and analysis to different audiences, both internal and external
• Experience with M&A.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with key members in the team, working with development, marketing, and books
• Data-driven mindset with a deep understanding of financial metrics and business performance drivers.
• Master's degree in finance, accounting, or management control.
• Fluent in Swedish and English. It’s a bonus if you also know German, Finnish, Polish or Dutch.

Does this sound like you? Apply today! We go through applications on an ongoing basis. If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to contact our People Operations Specialist Runa at runa.torbacke@bookbeat.com

We understand that this type of key role can be sensitive to apply for, we will handle everyone in the process in a confidential way.

About us
In 2015, we began our journey towards the goal of offering Europe’s leading service for digital books and in 2016, we launched to the public. Now, 9 years since our broad launch, BookBeat is used by over one million users every month. We are an ever-growing company within the Bonnier Group and all members who join our journey have the possibility to make an impact on our development – both in the short and long run.

Today, Team BookBeat consists of 160 curious and committed doers. Are you interested in becoming part of our team? Wonderful! While our employees are experts at many different areas, we have four core values uniting all of us:

🚀 Be great at what you do
📣 Share what you know
🔎 Curiosity for our users and us
🤝 Build Team BookBeat

In other words: we want our employees to continuously deep dive into and develop within their area(s) of expertise, but also to share that knowledge with their colleagues – we’re all in this together and cooperate (most often a lot) on a daily basis! We’re also looking for employees who are genuinely curious about our users, journey, and organization, a curiosity that drives us to always test out new things in our service and to let our users show us if we’re on the right track. Last but definitely not least, we want all our employees to contribute to the everyday cooperations and the wellbeing of Team BookBeat – as already mentioned, we’re in this together and we want our team to be healthy and happy at work, and we all contribute to this in different ways.