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Companies in Finland That Hire Internationals

137 employers with their careers page, the city they hire in and the language they work in. 55 run in English day to day, concentrated in Helsinki and Espoo tech, games and research. Copy the sheet or download it, then read the two salary lines below, because your offer decides which permit you are applying for and how long it takes.

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137 employers, the full sheet

Row	Company	Industry	Where	English at work	Hires from outside the EU	Relocation help	Notes
1	Smartly	Advertising SaaS	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Smartly, legally Smartly.io Solutions Oy, was founded in Helsinki and reports over 800 staff globally. Applications run through its Greenhouse board, and it names three entry routes for junior candidates: Launchpad, internships and new grads.
2	Finnair	Airline	Vantaa	Some	Unclear	Unclear	National carrier and one of the largest Helsinki-Vantaa employers, absent along with the rest of aviation. Cabin crew, ground handling and aircraft maintenance are all routes that do not require a software background.
3	Elektrobit	Automotive software	Oulu	Yes	Likely	Sometimes	Large Oulu software employer, and a direct correction to the set treating Oulu as a one-studio town.
4	Nordea	Banking	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	The Helsinki head office, Nordea Campus at Aleksis Kiven katu 5, holds about 4,700 staff. The Finland page also lists Tampere, Oulu and Turku offices, and openings seen included Senior Data Engineer and Senior IT Developer.
5	S-Pankki (S-Bank)	Banking	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	All ten openings seen were posted in Finnish and based in Helsinki, including Data Platform Engineer, AML Development Manager and Senior Data Management Specialist. An open application route is offered.
6	OP Financial Group (OP Pohjola)	Banking and insurance	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Applications go through op-careers.fi rather than op.fi. The portal offers English and Swedish alongside Finnish, and the locale parameter in the URL sets the language.
7	Kalmar	Cargo handling equipment	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Kalmar separated from Cargotec and listed on Nasdaq Helsinki in 2024. The head office is at Itämerenkatu 25 in Helsinki and open roles are listed on its own portal at jobs.kalmarglobal.com.
8	Kemira	Chemicals	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Kemira states that genuine job offers come from email addresses ending in @kemira.com, which is worth checking because its name gets used in recruitment scams.
9	Nordcloud, an IBM Company	Cloud consulting	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Nordcloud's own wording is over 1,300 staff representing 60 nationalities across 10 European countries. Some individual listings still ask for Finnish speakers, so check each posting.
10	Aiven	Cloud data infrastructure	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Aiven's headquarters is at Antinkatu 1 in central Helsinki. Its careers page warns that genuine recruitment mail comes only from aiven.io, greenhouse.io or eu.greenhouse.io addresses, and that Aiven never interviews over text or chat.
11	Redhill Games	Console and PC games	Helsinki	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	No positions were open when checked, but the board accepts open applications for future roles.
12	Remedy Entertainment	Console and PC games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Yes	Relocating from abroad comes with a relocation agent, up to three weeks of temporary accommodation, one company-paid flight home per year and a spouse career programme.
13	Housemarque	Console games	Helsinki	Yes	Yes	Yes	The careers page describes a tailored immigration and relocation package that covers applying for the work permit and extends to a spouse and children.
14	YIT	Construction	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Largest Finnish construction company. Construction and its subcontracting chain is among the biggest employers of foreign labour in the country and the set has no construction at all. SRV, Skanska Oy, NCC Suomi and Destia are the obvious companions.
15	Accenture Finland	Consulting	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	The fi-en job search returned no results on the day it was checked, so set up a job alert rather than judging the employer by a single visit.
16	F-Secure	Consumer cybersecurity	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The set lists WithSecure but not F-Secure. The two split into separately listed companies in 2022 and are now different employers with different hiring. Including one and not the other reads as an oversight to any Finnish reader.
17	Fiskars Group	Consumer goods and design	Espoo	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	Owner of Iittala, Arabia, Royal Copenhagen, Georg Jensen, Wedgwood and Gerber. The set has no consumer or design brands at all, which is a strange gap for Finland specifically. Marimekko and Amer Sports belong here too.
18	Valmet Automotive	Contract vehicle and battery manufacturing	Uusikaupunki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	One of the few large industrial employers in a small Finnish town rather than a university city, and historically a recruiter of production workers from abroad. Flag clearly that this is a different company from Valmet Oyj, which the set already lists, because readers will conflate them.
19	Boliden	Copper, nickel and zinc smelting	Harjavalta	Some	Likely	Unclear	Boliden's careers page lists two Finnish smelters, Harjavalta and Kokkola, both small industrial towns rather than city locations.
20	WithSecure	Cybersecurity software	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	WithSecure is headquartered in Helsinki and also hires in Oulu. The openings page is in English and hands off to Jobylon for the applications themselves.
21	Valio	Dairy and food	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Finland's largest dairy company, with production sites spread across the country rather than concentrated in the capital, which makes it useful for the regional coverage the set lacks.
22	Solita	Data and software consultancy	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Solita's careers page is in English and filters by area and location across Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany and Belgium. Some Finnish openings are advertised in Finnish, which in practice signals a Finnish requirement, so check the language the ad itself is written in.
23	Bittium	Defence and medical electronics	Oulu	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Oulu-headquartered, and useful on the page as a caution as much as an opportunity: much of the defence and secure-communications work carries clearance requirements that in practice exclude non-citizens.
24	Wolt	Delivery platform	Helsinki	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wolt's Relocate to Finland programme supports residence permits, travel to Finland and temporary accommodation for the hire plus a partner or spouse and minor children. It applies to engineering, analytics, design and product roles, and to a selection of senior non-tech positions.
25	Qt Group	Developer tools software	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Qt Group is headquartered in Espoo, but most of what it advertises at any given time is at overseas sites such as Bengaluru, Dallas, London, Seoul, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Check the city on each ad; Finnish openings are a minority of the board.
26	Aidian	Diagnostics	Espoo	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Aidian's careers page gives its address as Koivu-Mankkaan tie 6 B, Espoo, and runs an open application pool: an application stays valid for 12 months from submission or last edit. No vacancies were listed when checked.
27	Revvity (Wallac Oy)	Diagnostics	Turku	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The Turku site has over 500 employees and works on newborn and prenatal screening. Only a handful of roles are open at a time; the three live when checked were two Quality Specialist posts and a Global Product Manager, all advertised in English.
28	Gofore	Digital consultancy	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Adds a Tampere-rooted consultancy to a consultancy set that is entirely Helsinki. Carries the same caveat as Solita and Futurice: Finnish public-sector clients mean Finnish is effectively required for most delivery roles, whatever the internal working language is.
29	M-Files	Document management SaaS	Tampere	Yes	Likely	Unclear	M-Files is headquartered in Tampere. Its careers page carries benefits and culture only; the actual openings and their locations live on the Workable board at apply.workable.com/m-files.
30	Danfoss Drives	Electric drives and power conversion	Vaasa	Some	Likely	Unclear	The Vaasa site is the former Vacon, which Danfoss acquired in 2014, and is a development and production centre for AC drives. There is no separate Finnish careers site, so search jobs.danfoss.com under Danfoss rather than Vacon.
31	ABB Finland	Electrification and automation	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	ABB's Finnish careers site runs in Finnish only, which is a useful signal about the working language of the Finnish units. ABB's Finnish operations include Helsinki, Vaasa, Porvoo and Hamina.
32	KONE	Elevators and escalators	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Applications run through KONE's Workday portal, reached from the careers page. The English-speaking engineering roles sit at the Espoo head office and the Hyvinkää R&D site rather than in Finnish field maintenance.
33	Fortum	Energy	Espoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	Open roles are posted on jobs.fortum.com and Fortum's biggest operating countries are Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland, so filter by country before applying.
34	St1 Nordic	Energy and fuels	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The group page is split by country and sends Finnish vacancies onward to st1.fi/tietoa-meista/ihmiset-ja-ura/avoimet-tyopaikat, so expect the actual ads in Finnish.
35	Neste	Energy and renewable fuels	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Neste recruits for both the Espoo head office and the Porvoo refinery through the same portal, so filter by location before you apply.
36	Helen	Energy utility	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Helen posts only a few roles at a time, three on the day this was checked, all Helsinki based, so watch the page rather than checking once.
37	Etteplan	Engineering and embedded software services	Espoo	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Etteplan is an engineering services firm of about 4,000 people with its head office at Tekniikantie 4 D in Espoo. The work is consultancy placed at client sites, so the working language often follows the client rather than the employer.
38	ISS Palvelut	Facility services, cleaning and security	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	Facility services has the highest share of foreign-born workers of any sector in Finland, and the set has zero rows for it. SOL Palvelut, Lassila & Tikanoja and Avarn Security belong alongside it.
39	Fastems	Factory automation for machine tools	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Fastems is headquartered at Tuotekatu 4 in Tampere and runs a summer internship programme. Headcount is roughly 500; its own careers page gives two different figures on the same page.
40	Yara Suomi	Fertilizers and industrial chemicals	Siilinjärvi	Some	Likely	Unclear	Yara's Finnish sites are Siilinjärvi, Uusikaupunki and Kokkola, and Siilinjärvi pairs a mine with a fertilizer plant, so these are rural industrial jobs rather than office ones.
41	Ahlstrom	Fiber-based materials	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Ahlstrom states 36 locations in 13 countries and around 7,000 employees, so filter the job search to Finland or most of what you see will be plant roles elsewhere.
42	Paulig Group	Food and beverage	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Food manufacturing is a large and stable Finnish employer and the set has none of it. Fazer, Valio, Atria, HKFoods, Olvi and Sinebrychoff are the others worth adding.
43	Fazer Group	Food, bakery and food services	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	One of the best-known Finnish employer brands, spanning bakery, confectionery and contract food services, and absent from the set.
44	Ponsse	Forest machinery	Vieremä	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The portal showed nine vacancies worldwide in August 2026, four of them in Finland, and some Finnish postings are titled in Finnish. Most Finnish roles are at the Vieremä factory in rural Northern Savonia.
45	Metsä Group	Forest products	Espoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	Applications run through Workday, and Metsä states on the advert itself when a recruitment is anonymous, so your written answers can count for more than the CV header.
46	Stora Enso	Forest products	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	A Finnish and Swedish group headquartered in Helsinki with several Finnish mills, so head office roles and mill roles differ sharply in working language. Reach careers from the site navigation.
47	UPM	Forest products	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	Roles split between Helsinki head office functions and Finnish mill sites, and it is the mill and factory roles where Finnish is hardest to avoid.
48	Glaston	Glass processing machinery	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Glaston listed seven openings worldwide in August 2026 and only one of them was in Finland, so expect very low volume. The Finnish opening was in Tampere.
49	Agnico Eagle Finland	Gold mining	Kittila	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Europe's largest primary gold mine, and effectively the only reason a skilled international would job-hunt in Lapland outside tourism. The set has no Lapland row at all.
50	Oura Health	Health wearables	Oulu	Yes	Likely	Sometimes	Finland's biggest consumer hardware success and the single strongest reason to look at Oulu. Its absence is the clearest symptom of the set's capital-region bias.
51	CGI Suomi	IT services	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	3,700 people in Finland, larger than most of the software companies the set does include, and missing entirely. Much of the work is Finnish public-sector delivery, which is why English is only Some.
52	Tietoevry	IT services	Espoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	tietoevry.com/en/careers redirects to careers.tieto.com, which still carries the older Tieto branding, so do not assume you are on the wrong site. Filter the board by Finland; Espoo is by some distance the largest Finnish location, ahead of Tampere and Helsinki.
53	If Insurance (If P&C, Sampo Group)	Insurance	Espoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	The group job search runs on Workday at if.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com, and the careers hub links to seven country sites including Finland.
54	LähiTapiola	Insurance	Espoo	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	The company is a group of regional mutuals, so vacancies are posted per region, and the careers site is Finnish only. Hiring runs to a stated four-stage process with usually two interview rounds.
55	Sampo Group	Insurance	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Sampo plc showed no vacancies at all on the day checked and directs candidates to group companies, mainly If P&C, which is listed separately here. Open applications go to hr@sampo.fi.
56	Thermo Fisher Scientific	Life science tools	Vantaa	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The Finland job list loaded but returned no current openings on two separate checks, so treat this as an employer to monitor rather than one to judge from a single visit.
57	Konecranes	Lifting equipment	Hyvinkää	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Konecranes runs its own job board at konecranes.careers, grouped into technology and IT, service, sales, supply and production, project management, business support and traineeships. The headquarters is in Hyvinkää.
58	Hiab	Load handling equipment	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The applicant portal still carries several Cargotec group brands including Hiab, MacGregor, Bromma and Cargotec, so search under both Hiab and Cargotec. The head office is in Helsinki.
59	Wärtsilä	Marine and energy technology	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The portal has a dedicated Student and Graduate positions category alongside engineering, digital technology, project management and R&D, and it filters by country. The Finnish sites are Vaasa, Turku and Helsinki.
60	Kongsberg Maritime Finland	Marine propulsion and deck machinery	Rauma	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The Rauma unit designs and manufactures azimuth thrusters, waterjets and deck machinery. There is no separate Finnish careers site, so Finnish vacancies have to be found by filtering the Norwegian parent's vacancy list.
61	Supermetrics	Marketing data SaaS	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Supermetrics was founded in Helsinki and keeps its HQ there. Roles tagged Helsinki HQ run across engineering, security, IT, finance and marketing, and all ads are in English.
62	Vaisala	Measurement tech and software	Vantaa	Some	Likely	Unclear	Vaisala's head office is in Vantaa. The careers page covers the whole group, roughly 2,200 people across 25 offices, and links out to the job board at careers.vaisala.com, which is where you filter by country.
63	Alma Media	Media	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	On the day checked the vacancies page carried a single opening, a Finnish-language Kauppalehti video journalist role closing 27 August 2026, alongside a vacancy alert signup.
64	Sanoma	Media	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	Hiring is split in two: Media Finland vacancies at sanoma.fi/en/about-us/careers and Sanoma Learning plus group roles at sanomalearning.com/en/join-us.
65	Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company)	Media	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Yle states it works mainly in Finnish, Swedish and English, and applications run through its Workday portal at yle.wd502.myworkdayjobs.com.
66	GE HealthCare Finland	Medical devices	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	There is no Finland-specific careers site, so use the global careers portal and filter by country once inside. GE HealthCare's Finnish operations are based in Helsinki.
67	Planmeca	Medical devices	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Planmeca states on its careers page that its open positions in Finland are posted mainly in Finnish, on a separate Finnish recruitment site, so expect Finnish to be needed for most Helsinki roles.
68	Metso	Mining and aggregates equipment	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Open roles are listed at metso.com/corporate/careers/open-jobs/, linked from the careers page. Espoo is the head office and Tampere is the main Finnish technology and production site.
69	Terrafame	Mining and battery chemicals	Sotkamo	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	Vacancies are published only on the Finnish-language portal kykyjentalteenotto.fi, which Terrafame links from its own careers page, or you can send an open application.
70	Sandvik	Mining and rock drilling equipment	Tampere	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The group job search listed 405 open roles in August 2026 with a Finland country filter. Tampere is Sandvik's main Finnish site for mining and rock drilling equipment development and production.
71	Ubisoft RedLynx	Mobile and console games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	No positions were open when the careers page was checked, and trade press reported in 2025 that up to 60 jobs could go at this studio as it refocuses on mobile.
72	Critical Force	Mobile games	Kajaani	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The careers page carries no listings and asks for open applications by email to careers@criticalforce.com.
73	Dodreams	Mobile games	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The careers page had no vacancies and directs candidates to jobs@dodreams.com or the studio's LinkedIn page for future openings.
74	Fingersoft	Mobile games	Oulu	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The careers portal showed no open roles when checked, and the main studio is in Oulu rather than the Helsinki area.
75	Futureplay Games	Mobile games	Helsinki	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	The careers page routes applications through LinkedIn rather than listing roles on the site itself.
76	Metacore	Mobile games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Yes	No roles were open when this was checked, and the careers page lists both Helsinki and Berlin as work locations.
77	Next Games	Mobile games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Yes	This is a Netflix game studio and applications are handled on the Netflix jobs portal, not on this site. Listed benefits include a relocation service and spouse support.
78	Rovio	Mobile games	Espoo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Rovio says it provides immigration and relocation support for employees and their families coming from abroad, covering the work permit, housing and opening a bank account. Staff represent over 50 nationalities.
79	Rovio Entertainment	Mobile games	Espoo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Rovio states it provides immigration and relocation support, including help securing a work permit, for employees and their families coming from abroad.
80	Small Giant Games	Mobile games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Applications go through a job board linked from the careers page, and some roles are posted on Zynga's own careers site instead.
81	Supercell	Mobile games	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Yes	Supercell's teams span over 40 nationalities, and a Relocation Team plus a Global Mobility team handle the move to Helsinki, including family members and pets. There is a spouse network of locals and expats for partners who come along.
82	Traplight	Mobile games	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The team is fully remote with most people in Jyvaskyla and Tampere, and applications go to jobs@traplightgames.com because the site has no careers page.
83	HypeHype	Mobile games platform	Helsinki	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	This is the former Frogmind, maker of Badland, now building the HypeHype platform. Two listings were open when checked, a Game Designer role and a general open application.
84	Nitro Games	Mobile shooter games	Kotka	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	One Game Producer role in Helsinki was open when checked, and the company is headquartered in Kotka.
85	City of Helsinki	Municipal government	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	Finland's single largest employer and completely absent from the set. Most roles require Finnish, which is exactly why it belongs on the page: a reader needs to see where the jobs actually are and what the language gate costs them. Espoo, Vantaa and Tampere run comparable English portals.
86	Teollisuuden Voima (TVO)	Nuclear energy	Eurajoki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Olkiluoto runs three nuclear units producing over 30 percent of Finland's electricity, and applications go through an external system at tvo.rekrytointi.com rather than the tvo.fi page itself.
87	Framery	Office pod manufacturing	Tampere	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	Tampere manufacturer that advertises openings in English, useful for a reader who wants industry outside the capital without a Finnish-language gate.
88	10tons	PC and console games	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The studio says it is not actively recruiting and only archives open applications sent to its jobs address, without replying individually.
89	Frozenbyte	PC and console games	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The jobs page states there is no remote work, that applicants must be able to relocate near the Helsinki office at their own initiative, and that written work language is English while Finnish is spoken daily.
90	Colossal Order	PC simulation games	Tampere	Yes	Unclear	Unclear	The studio has about 33 people from 10 countries, had no open positions when checked, and takes applications only by email to jobs@colossalorder.fi.
91	Huhtamaki	Packaging materials	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The careers page states around 17,400 employees worldwide, and the Espoo site is the group head office rather than a factory, so Finnish openings skew corporate and specialist.
92	Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company	Pension insurance	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	The careers page and all five openings seen were in Finnish, covering risk analyst, HR and legal roles. Open applications stay valid for six months.
93	Borealis Polymers (now Borouge International)	Petrochemicals	Porvoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	Borealis became part of Borouge International on 1 April 2026 and the careers portal still runs on the old Borealis domain, so expect the application site to move at some point.
94	Bayer Oy	Pharma	Turku	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Finnish vacancies appear on the shared Bayer Nordic career site rather than the global bayer.com portal. When checked, the board carried only Swedish and Danish roles and no Finnish ones, so it needs watching over time.
95	Orion Corporation	Pharma	Espoo	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Orion's headquarters address on the page is Orionintie 1A, Espoo, and applications are handled in an Oracle Cloud recruitment portal linked from the page rather than on the page itself.
96	Santen Oy	Pharma	Tampere	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Santen Oy is the Finnish subsidiary of Japan's Santen Pharmaceutical and runs its own Finnish-language careers page with an Apply now section. No vacancies were listed on either the Finnish or the EMEA careers page when checked.
97	Posti Group	Postal and logistics	Vantaa	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Warehouse, delivery and driving work at scale, and already one of the largest employers of foreign-background workers in Finland. Realistic as a first job for someone already in the country, but not as a relocation route, because these roles face labour market testing.
98	Hitachi Energy Finland	Power transformers and grid technology	Vaasa	Some	Likely	Unclear	Hitachi Energy's transformer business has a Vaasa site, and Finnish roles are posted on the global open jobs page rather than on a separate Finnish careers site.
99	Mehilainen	Private healthcare	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Follow the vacancies link from the front page: the job pages could not be loaded on repeated checks. Clinical roles require a Valvira licence and working Finnish, so the non-clinical and digital side is the realistic route in without Finnish.
100	Terveystalo	Private healthcare	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	The vacancies page is Finnish-language and split into 14 professional groups such as laakari, sairaanhoitaja and rontgenhoitaja. Terveystalo says it employs over 14,000 professionals at close to 400 locations. Clinical roles require a Valvira licence and working Finnish with patients.
101	Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)	Public health research	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	THL is a Finnish government agency and routes its vacancies and internships through the state recruitment portal valtiolle.fi. Only three posts were open when the page was checked.
102	HUS Helsinki University Hospital	Public healthcare	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	HUS states that the official working languages for all positions are Finnish and Swedish, that every healthcare professional needs a Valvira licence to practise in Finland, and that applicants for healthcare posts must additionally demonstrate Finnish or Swedish proficiency to Valvira.
103	ANDRITZ Finland	Pulp and paper plant engineering	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	ANDRITZ Oy is the Finnish arm of the Austrian ANDRITZ group, with its head office in Helsinki and engineering and works sites in several other Finnish towns. All openings go through the group portal at careers.andritz.com.
104	ANDRITZ Oy	Pulp and paper technology	Helsinki	Yes	Yes	Unclear	Andritz Oy holds Finnish Immigration Service employer certification, issued 1 September 2023 and valid until 1 September 2028, which speeds up residence permit processing for staff hired from outside Finland.
105	Valmet	Pulp, paper and energy technology	Espoo	Some	Likely	Unclear	Valmet recruits under four tracks on its careers page: engineering, sales, field services, and students and recent graduates. It employs roughly 18,500 people worldwide.
106	IQM Quantum Computers	Quantum computing	Espoo	Yes	Yes	Yes	One of very few Finnish employers that states visa sponsorship on its own careers page rather than leaving it to inference. Espoo headquarters, but roughly ten international hubs, so Finland roles compete internally with Munich and Madrid.
107	VR Group	Rail transport	Helsinki	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	State rail operator. Safety-critical and customer-facing roles require Finnish, but it is a large national employer and the set omits transport entirely.
108	Swappie	Refurbished electronics	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Sometimes	Explicitly English-language workplace, and it hires for operations, logistics and device repair as well as engineering, so it is reachable without a software CV.
109	CSC IT Center for Science	Research computing	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Yes	CSC states that its official working languages are English and Finnish, that many teams work almost exclusively in English, that its experts come from more than 30 countries, and that it helps new international employees and their families get started in a new country.
110	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland	Research institute	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Yes	VTT states on its careers page that it covers relocation costs for international staff and helps with practicalities like house hunting and taxes. It also says it employs over 55 nationalities.
111	Kesko	Retail	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The vacancies page is in English but the listings themselves are almost all Finnish-language. On the day checked it showed 59 openings across Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Kuopio, Jyväskylä, Lahti, Rovaniemi and smaller sites.
112	Lidl Suomi	Retail	Helsinki region	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	The portal states over 5,700 staff across more than 200 stores, three distribution centres and a head office. It is Finnish-language throughout, with separate streams for store, logistics, specialist, graduate and summer work.
113	S Group (SOK)	Retail	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	The English careers section splits into Open jobs, Hotels and restaurants, Retail and speciality stores, Service station stores, Experts, and student and summer routes. S Group is a co-operative network of regional societies, so most roles are customer-facing.
114	Stockmann	Retail	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Stockmann is a division of Lindex Group, and stockmann.com routes careers traffic to the group's Finnish-language careers page rather than to a Stockmann-branded jobs site.
115	Tokmanni	Retail	Mäntsälä	Rarely	Unclear	Unclear	The careers site is Finnish apart from one Working at Tokmanni page, and job alerts are split into three streams: stores, warehouse and head office. Head office is where the non-store roles sit.
116	RELEX Solutions	Retail supply chain SaaS	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	RELEX is headquartered in Helsinki with offices in 15 countries and more than 80 nationalities on staff, and its ads are posted in English. The careers page gives recruitment@relexsolutions.com for direct questions.
117	ICEYE	Satellite radar imaging	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Yes	Espoo-headquartered SAR satellite operator with a heavily international engineering workforce. A conspicuous absence given the set already includes far smaller Helsinki tech companies.
118	Meyer Turku	Shipbuilding	Turku	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Meyer Turku employs over 2,000 people at the Turku shipyard. Its careers page lists ordinary vacancies alongside recruitment training places that can lead to a job, plus a shipbuilding school for apprenticeships.
119	Futurice	Software consultancy	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Futurice posts its Helsinki and Tampere roles on the same page as its Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, London, Stockholm, Poland and Portugal openings, so filter by location before reading.
120	Reaktor	Software consultancy	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Yes	Reaktor's careers page names Helsinki as both an office and a job location, and says it supports new teammates worldwide in relocating, with Helsinki among the named destinations. It is a consultancy, so some client projects still require Finnish.
121	Eezy	Staffing and light entrepreneurship	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Second large staffing route, Nasdaq Helsinki listed, placing people nationwide rather than only in the capital.
122	Barona	Staffing and recruitment	Helsinki	Some	Yes	Yes	Staffing agencies are the actual first Finnish employer for a large share of non-EU arrivals, and the set contains none. Barona runs a named international recruitment and relocation arm, which makes it one of the few defensible Yes ratings on the whole page.
123	Outokumpu	Stainless steel	Helsinki	Some	Likely	Unclear	Outokumpu states approximately 8,700 employees in close to 30 countries, and Tornio in Lapland is the largest Finnish site, a completely different relocation decision from the Helsinki head office.
124	SSAB Europe	Steel	Raahe	Some	Likely	Unclear	Finnish steel production sits in Raahe and Hämeenlinna. Raahe is a town of roughly 24,000 people about 75 km from Oulu, so this is a small-town move rather than a city one.
125	Elisa	Telecom	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Elisa states that vacancies published in Finnish require fluency in Finnish, so the ads written in English are the ones realistically open to you.
126	Telia Finland	Telecom	Helsinki	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Telia Finland does not run its own job board. Finnish roles are posted on the Telia Company careers site alongside the other Nordic markets, so filter by country.
127	Ericsson Finland	Telecom equipment	Kirkkonummi	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Ericsson's Finnish site is at Hirsalantie 11 in Jorvas, Kirkkonummi, with around 700 staff working on product and network security, cloud, and 5G and 6G research. Jobs go on the group portal, which you filter by location.
128	Nokia	Telecom equipment	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Nokia is headquartered in Espoo and runs one job search for the whole group, so set the location filter to Finland before browsing.
129	Normet	Underground mining and tunnelling equipment	Iisalmi	Some	Unclear	Unclear	Normet's main factory is in Iisalmi in Northern Savonia and applications run through Workday. The company reports over 1,800 employees globally.
130	Aalto University	University	Espoo	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Open positions are listed in English and applications go through a Workday candidate account. Some administrative vacancies are advertised in Finnish only.
131	LUT University	University	Lappeenranta	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The set lists six universities and omits the one that markets itself hardest to international students and staff. Campuses in Lappeenranta and Lahti, which also adds two cities the set does not cover.
132	Tampere University	University	Tampere	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Tampere states that it publishes all open positions in Finnish and publishes in English only those that do not require Finnish, so the English list is effectively the list open to non-Finnish speakers.
133	University of Eastern Finland	University	Kuopio	Yes	Likely	Unclear	UEF describes itself as a workplace of some 3,400 researchers, teachers and other experts, split across the Kuopio and Joensuu campuses, and its vacancies are posted in English.
134	University of Helsinki	University	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	The university warns on its own open positions page that fake job advertisements are being posted in its name, so apply only through helsinki.fi and never through a link sent to you.
135	University of Oulu	University	Oulu	Yes	Likely	Sometimes	Applications run through the Varbi recruitment system at oulunyliopisto.varbi.com, where postdoctoral and tenure track vacancies are posted in English. The careers page links a Get settled section of services for new employees.
136	University of Turku	University	Turku	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Vacancies are advertised in English and applications must be submitted through the university's electronic application form, with separate recruitment system instructions linked from the page.
137	Varjo	XR headsets and hardware	Helsinki	Yes	Likely	Unclear	Helsinki XR hardware company with an English-language engineering workforce, in the same tier as several companies the set already includes.

Scroll the table sideways for the remaining columns. Every name links to that organisation’s own page.

Compiled and link-checked August 2026. Ratings for working language and hiring from abroad are our reading of each employer's own pages, not a promise from them. These are independent companies and agencies with no relationship to Ankommo. Links change: if you find a dead one, tell us at hello@ankommo.de and we will fix it.

Before you start applying

Your Salary Picks Your Permit, and Your Permit Picks Your Timeline

Finland runs two work routes and the split is a number. At EUR 3,937 a month gross or above, you are in specialist or EU Blue Card territory: no labour market test, and the fast track that Migri says decides cases in two weeks. Below it you are on the employed-person permit, where the floor is EUR 1,600 plus the collective agreement rate for your field, and your employer has to test the labour market before hiring you.

That second route is not a bad route, and it covers most jobs in the country. It is slower, it asks more of the employer, and it is tied to a field of work rather than to one company, which means you can change jobs inside that field without starting again. Knowing which one your offer triggers is the difference between planning for a fortnight and planning for a season.

The one genuinely generous door is for graduates of Finnish universities: a job-seeking permit of up to two years, usable in parts, claimable up to five years after your study permit ended. If you did not study in Finland, the offer has to come first. Nothing on this page changes that order.

Questions People Actually Ask

What salary do I need for a Finnish work permit?

There are two lines, and which side of them your offer falls on decides everything else. At EUR 3,937 a month gross or above, you can go for the specialist permit or the EU Blue Card: no labour market test, and the fast track applies. Below that, the route is the residence permit for an employed person, where the floor is EUR 1,600 a month gross plus whatever the collective agreement for your field says, and your employer has to run a labour market test first. Fringe benefits and daily allowances do not count towards either figure. So read the salary in the ad before anything else, because it tells you which process you are about to enter.

Is the two-week decision real?

On Migri’s own published figures, yes, for the routes it covers. The fast track applies to specialists, EU Blue Card holders, start-up entrepreneurs, ICT specialists and managers, and their family members, and Migri promises a decision in two weeks. In the first half of 2025 it issued 1,249 specialist decisions, 98 percent of them positive, averaging nine days. The clock breaks easily though: you have five working days to prove your identity, your employer has two working days to add the terms of employment, and any request for clarification takes you out of the fast lane. The employed-person permit is not in this scheme at all.

Can I move to Finland to look for work?

Only if you studied there. The job-seeking permit is for people who completed a degree or finished research in Finland, and it is generous once you qualify: up to two years, splittable into parts, applied for any time within five years of your study permit expiring, with unrestricted work rights and a requirement of EUR 800 a month in available funds. If you have no Finnish degree, you need the job offer first. That is what this sheet is for: 55 of the 137 employers here work in English, which is where an application from abroad has a chance.

How much Finnish do I actually need?

It splits by industry more sharply than in most countries. Tech, games and research in Helsinki and Espoo run in English as a matter of course, and Finland’s games studios in particular hire internationally at scale. Healthcare, the public sector, retail floors and anything customer-facing expect Finnish, and ten entries on this list are marked Rarely for that reason. Finnish is also genuinely hard for speakers of most European languages, so treat it as a multi-year project rather than something you pick up in a year. Plenty of people build a career in Helsinki without it; almost nobody builds one in Finnish healthcare without it.

Next steps

Employers in Norway

The same sheet for Norway, where the salary rules differ.

Job Boards in Europe

33 boards by country, including the Nordic ones.

Recruitment Agencies

Agencies by country, and the fee rule that protects you.

Weighing Up Helsinki and Berlin?

Finnish takes years and English will carry you in Helsinki tech. German takes months and it is what turns a German application into an interview. If Germany is also on your list, start free at your level.

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