Finance and controlling

Senior Financial Accountant

Imagine a future where you’re using your knowledge and expertise in financial reporting to ensure high-quality financial assurance and transparency.

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for a broad set of financial accounting and reporting processes concerning the Group’s legal entities, incl. month-end closing, reconciliations, and statutory accounts, as well as performing internal controls. You’ll also play a significant role in process optimisation, aided by your significant experience in the field.

Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling
You’ll be part of Financial Accounting Global Support team, where you, part of the accounting Task Force function together with your colleagues, will be responsible for delivering standardised, high quality, and timely accounting and reporting products within FAC.  As a team, we create a workplace culture centred around teamwork and development through close collaboration with our colleagues and stakeholders within and outside of the FAC department.

You’ll play an important role in:

  • Driving and actively participating in improvement projects or process, challenging the status quo, especially in connection with month-end and reporting systems.
  • Leading and participating in data cleansing, reconciliations, and ad-hoc financial tasks as required by the business.
  • Supporting the global Financial Accounting (FAC) team by taking into high-impact assignments, including covering for key deliverables during transitions or peak periods.
  • Collaborating closely with colleagues and stakeholders within and outside the FAC department to deliver standardized, high-quality, and timely accounting and reporting products.
  • Contributing to knowledge retention by leveraging your expertise to efficiently resolve complex issues or previously unresolved matters.

To succeed in the role, you:

  • Have a bachelor’s degree in accounting, controlling, or similar (ACA-qualified) and are fluent in written and spoken English
  • Proficient in Microsost Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) with experience using financial accouting ERPs such as SAP and Hyperion;knowledge of reporting tools like Once Source and Cadency is a plus. 
  • Have extensive relevant experience working in a public accounting firm or a finance department in an international company, incl. thorough knowledge of IFRS and/or a country-specific GAAP
  • Demonstrate flexibility, initiative, and the ability to identify and drive improvement projects.
  • Demonstrate analytical thinking, logical reasoning, and the ability to critically assess information. 
  • Valur collaboration,non-routine tasks and are willing to work across teams and countries. 

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

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