Group Accountant – Heimstaden Group Finance - Oslo

Group Accountant - Oslo

Join us as Group Accountant for Europe’s largest residential manager

Do you enjoy working in a highly professional and dynamic environment where you can contribute to and see the process improvements? If you want to take on responsibilities in group financial accounting and reporting matters, this role with us could be your next career move!Heimstaden is the second largest European residential real estate manager and investor with around 160,000 homes across 9 countries with a property value of EUR 29bn. We acquire, develop, and manage properties with an evergreen perspective.

The TeamThe Group Accounting team consists of 4 highly skilled and dedicated professionals. The position will be in our office in central Oslo.As our Group Accounting team continues to expand, driven by an ambitious growth plan to develop best practice accounting, we are looking to enhance the finance function with a business-savvy individual who possesses best-in-class reporting & accounting skills to take on the responsibility as a Group Financial Accountant.

You will play a pivotal role in our team by:

• Bookkeeping from A-Z for companies that are part of the Heimstaden Group portfolio
• Responsible for anuual reporting
• Responsible for own portfolio
• Responsible for ensuring all month-end, quarter-end and year-end reconciliations are made in a timely manner, with high quality.
• Carry out accounting assessments and accruals.
• Understand and monitor the internal VAT grouping, cash flows, inter-company charges and cash upstreaming between our companies. Preparation and responsibility for all tax declarations, returns and reconciliation.
• Preparation of annual accounts
• Processing invoices and arrange payments.
• Maintain requirements specification and routine descriptions related to your position.
• Cooperate with auditors to ensure good quality of underlying documents is compiled and presented.
• Super user on group accounting and invoice processing software
• Participate in roll-out and improvement of group accounting software

To be an ideal fit for our team, you possess:

• A higher economic education at master's degree level in economics, accounting or similar.
• Good understanding of numbers and accounting.
• Experience from working with the majority or all processes within accounting, reporting, tax and corporate compliance requirements
• Good IT skills (notably excel) and interest in ERP systems
• Experience with D365, Semine, Maestro is an advantage
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Fluent in Norwegian and English, both written and spoken

As an individual, we need you to be Business savvy, Result-oriented and a Problem solver – always searching for new and improved ways of working and not afraid of testing your ideas. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, you naturally take ownership of your work and you have great attention to detail. Above and beyond all, you are a dedicated team player and enjoy working closely together with the rest of the team, where you always bring a positive, energetic, and can-do attitude.What we can offer:

• Working with and learning from experienced professionals and industry experts across several European countries
• Good opportunities for career development within a growing and dynamic organization
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values innovation and excellence
• Opportunity to collaboration as business partner to group management and other department heads for all financial reporting matters
• Competitive compensation and benefits package

We look for talent in whatever form we can find, we kindly ask any interested applicants to please send in the application anyway and let’s figure out together if the qualifications are enough.

Apply today to connect with us in the People & Culture team, we will support your career wants and needs, and we are happy to share and stay connected.Even if you are not looking for a change, feel free to contact us to find out how your career aspiration can fit in Heimstaden.For questions, please contact Franco Hurtado at franco.hurtado at heimstaden.comWe conduct background checks as part of our recruitment process. If you have any questions regarding this, you are welcome to contact us!