Senior Accountant, General Ledger and Tax Accounting

Shape Financial Excellence as a Record-to-Report Accounting Specialist

Are you ready for the next step in your accounting career? Join us as a Record-to-Report (R2R) Accounting Specialist and play a key role in ensuring accurate financial accounting, timely financial close activities, and high-quality reporting. In this role, you will work with complex accounting processes, influence business decisions through reliable financial information, and collaborate with stakeholders across the organization. You will also act as a subject matter expert, helping drive compliance, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across the R2R process.

Your responsibilities

You will perform and review journal entries, accruals, and provisions to ensure accurate and complete financial records.You will execute month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities and help deliver timely financial reporting.You will prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, investigate open items, and resolve accounting discrepancies.You will manage fixed asset accounting, including capitalization, depreciation, and asset-related reporting requirements.You will collaborate with global stakeholders on intercompany reconciliations, audits, compliance activities, and continuous process improvements.

Expectations for you

You have a degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.You bring 4-6 years of relevant accounting experience, preferably within Record-to-Report processes.You have solid knowledge of financial accounting principles, financial reporting, reconciliations, and month-end close activities.You can analyze financial information, prepare accounting reports, and provide technical accounting guidance to stakeholders.You are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders and driving compliance, accuracy, and process improvements.

To succeed in this role

Success in this role requires strong accounting expertise, analytical thinking, and attention to detail. You will need to consistently deliver accurate financial results, manage complex accounting activities, and ensure compliance with accounting policies and reporting requirements. Strong collaboration skills, stakeholder management capabilities, and a continuous improvement mindset will help you add value across the financial close and reporting process.

We Also Expect You To Align With Valmet’s Leadership Principles—practical Behaviors That Guide How We Lead, Collaborate, And Succeed Together

Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow throughLead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quicklyBuild on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safetyCollaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value

We offer

You will join a finance team responsible for delivering accurate accounting, financial reporting, reconciliations, compliance activities, and financial close processes. The team works closely with business partners and stakeholders across regions to ensure high-quality financial information and effective issue resolution. You will have the opportunity to contribute to process improvements, expand your technical accounting expertise, and take ownership of complex accounting activities in a collaborative environment.

Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging opportunity where you can grow professionally while working with experienced colleagues in an international environment. We value learning, innovation, and continuous development, and provide modern tools and opportunities to support your career growth.

Want to know more?

Did we catch your interest? We'd love to hear from you. For further information regarding the role, please contact the recruiting team or hiring manager. Please submit your application through our careers portal before the application deadline stated in the vacancy posting.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. We work together with our customers throughout the entire lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals close to customers, we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow.

At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation. We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, where people can be themselves and are supported to contribute at their best. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views. Join the team – and lead the way with us!

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