Controllerns roll : ur ett hållbarhetsperspektiv

Sammanfattning: Background: Sustainability has become a global trend that has affected people, companies and organizations around the world. Most organizations today integrate sustainability into their operations in various ways. The role of a controller undergoes constant development where the controller's role nowadays includes several strategic tasks. The role has changed over the years where the duties have been affected by global trends, such as sustainability. Purpose: This study aims to create a greater understanding of how an organization's sustainability work has affected the role of the controller and how sustainability is implemented in practice by the controller in the organization. Methodology: The methodology that this study uses is based on a qualitative method where semi-structured interviews have been conducted with eleven controllers from various organizations. A thematic analysis has then been used to categorize the results. Result: The results of the study show that sustainability has affected the controller's role in an indirect way, where the controller's working methods have become more sustainable while the actual tasks of the controller have remained unchanged. On the other hand, the study shows that the controller has embraced financial sustainability while the other two dimensions of sustainability have been neglected. The result shows that the controller has a certain collaboration with the organization's sustainability officer. This collaboration is based on the controller contributing his/her expertise within the financial aspect while relying on the sustainability officer to be responsible for the other two dimensions of sustainability. Recommendations för further studies: For further research, we make recommendations to investigate whether sustainability integration in the controller's work differs if the controller works in the private sector or the public sector. Another suggestion is to investigate whether the three dimensions of sustainability are integrated in the duties of a sustainability controller.