Head of Accounting R2R Sweden 1
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Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. Being one of Europe's leading energy companies, we must become fossil free ourselves to succeed. But that's not enough. Empowered by our goal, we are looking beyond our own industry to see where we can really make a difference.
Job Description
We are now looking for the new manager for one of our teams in Accounting Record-to-Report (R2R), located in Solna. Accounting R2R is one of the functions in Vattenfall's shared service organisation Finance Business Support, serving the vast majority of companies in the Vattenfall Group. Accounting R2R provides the accounting expertise to the units in Vattenfall with a strong focus on quality and compliance. Accounting R2R is the accounting expert for IFRS and the local accounting regulation, preparing postings, managing the closings and the external audit, providing financial statements.
For the best support of the Vattenfall units, the General Accounting teams in Accounting R2R are organised with a clear country assignment while Fixed Assets processes are supported by a central cross-country team. We are offering now the manager position in one of our two General Accounting teams in Sweden, which supports Vattenfall companies in Sweden, Finland and Norway. In this position you are responsible for a team of accounting professionals, supported by accounting specialists.
Finance Business Support works with a Business Process Outsourcing partner (BPO) who also supports sub-processes in the Accounting R2R function.
Your tasks and responsibilities
Structures the General Accounting tasks for the supported companies and reporting units in a way, that the team's capabilities and strengths are best utilised
Creates an inspiring, stimulating, goal oriented and supportive working climate by setting clear goals and responsibilities and enabling competence development
Ensures that the services are executed with high quality and timeliness of the delivery; monitoring the progress in the closings, taking corrective action where needed and working operationally with the team in order to reach targets/deadlines
Establishes a contact structure towards the business that is reliable, robust and trusted; contacts could and should be shared between all team members and the team manager
Organises effective and efficient processes: Identifies improvement areas as well as risks, encourages an improvement culture and assures the implementation of improvements and risk mitigation, drives change
Main contact person for the auditors for the Statutory Accounts and the local IFRS reviews for Vattenfall's group figures. Coordinates the audit process, organising meetings and information flow.
Main contact person for Vattenfall's Group Accounting team
Responsible for creating a well-functioning operational collaboration between the team and the BPO provider
Cooperates with the other team managers in Accounting R2R to assure harmonised application of IFRS requirements across countries and to further harmonise processes
Designs and implements effective and efficient interfaces to other staff functions; makes sure information is shared between the different teams in Finance Business Support
Staff responsibility for the team; handling recruitments, promotions, competence development and salary negotiations together with department manager and HR
Reports to department manager regarding target fulfilment, escalates issues/claims when needed to mitigate risk.
Qualifications
To be successful in the position you need to have strong leadership skills and an eagerness to manage and coach teams to deliver on common targets. You are a strong communicator and have the ability to establish trust and build relationships inside your own team as well as towards stakeholders. You are used to work against deadlines and have functional methods to handle the stress that might occur. Analytical, proactive, solution orientated, engagement and credibility are all words that people might use to describe your personal skills.
Skills and experience needed:
Relevant University degree (e.g. Business and administration) or comparable other training
Proven experience from managing teams
Experience from working within Finance operations in a Shared Service organisation
Deep understanding of accounting rules, Swedish accounting regulation as well as IFRS
Good understanding of all Finance / Accounting processes
Professional proficiency in Swedish and English, both written and spoken
Insights in the energy business will be beneficial
Additional Information
Location: Solna. Travelling may occur, mainly to Vattenfall locations in the Nordics
At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be 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. Please read mor about Diversity and other benefits here: Working at Vattenfall - Vattenfall
We welcome your application in English, including CV and motivational letter, no later than May 5 , 2024.
For information regarding the position, please contact hiring manager Cornelia Haas, +49 172 362 43 20. For information regarding the recruitment process please contact recruiter Peter Blixter, +46 72 237 32 02.
Trade union representatives in Sweden Rolf Ohlsson (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). To get in contact with the representatives, please call Vattenfall 's switchboard +46 (0)8 739 50 00.
Since Vattenfall is part of the Swedish critical infrastructure many of our positions are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates can be subject to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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Arbetsgivare Vattenfall AB (org.nr 556036-2138)
938 32 ARJEPLOG
Arbetsplats Arjeplog - Vattenfall
Jobbnummer 8601863
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