Accounting Manager

at  SIRVA

A unique opportunity has arisen within our finance team for a hands-on and versatile finance professional to join our team in Oslo. This follows a retirement in Norway. This is a full-time role (40 hours per week) based in our Oslo office.
The core responsibilities of this role are to manage for our Norwegian entity and Danish entity the timely and accurate processing of transactions/journals for month-end, quarter-end, and annual reporting and dealing with financial queries. This is a crucial role where success will be driven by the candidate being highly organised, having attention to detail, and being able to juggle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, high-volume transaction environment.
Any successful candidate must be able to demonstrate their ability to learn a new business, and financial systems and show adaptability in their style to ensure they become effective with the minimum of supervision as quickly as possible.
We are looking for someone with strong technical accounting and analytical skills who is tenacious in resolving queries and is confident in dealing with many different people (both in Norway and Denmark) professionally. Knowledge of the Norwegian, Danish, and English languages is very useful in this position. An example of specific tasks is listed below, but not limited to that:

QUALIFICATIONS AND PREFERRED SKILLS

• 5+ years of accounting experience in similar accounting roles, preferably held prior Accounting Mgr. or Controller role.
• Fluency in Norwegian with an understanding of Norwegian & Danish statutory reporting would be advantageous but not compulsory
• Use of financial ledger applications (preferably Navision and Oracle PeopleSoft) and preparing and posting journals
• Must be detail-oriented and have good analytical skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel is required (competent at using pivot tables and formulas such as VLOOKUP and IF statements) to use data extracted from various systems for manipulation, analysis, and reporting
• Good written and verbal communication skills are important (English Language and Norwegian Language. Danish language would be advantageous)
• Must be organized, able to function as part of a team, a self-starter, and quality-focused.
• Dedicated and hard working – willing to push yourself and work with others to gather all necessary skills to get the job done

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree required/concentration - Accounting preferred
• CPA preferred

• Coordinating External Audits and preparing the Statutory Annual Report
• Assist in Internal Audits to answer questions efficiently and effectively
• Prepare and provide to the Finance Director all Financial Statement information that contains close procedures, manual JEs, and Account Reconciliations – Quarterly within 30 days of the quarter close
• Prepare account fluctuation calculations and explanations of all your entity accounts that exceed to be determined $ & % and note any items of concern or unusual entries.
• Ensure books and records are recorded following Corporate & Division Accounting policies and the Local Statutory Accounting Policies
• VAT reporting & filing
• Corporation tax reporting & filing, in collaboration with the Global Tax team
• Reporting & filing local statutory statistics and filing the statutory annual report with the company houses
• Various other Accounting functions including managing and providing work direction to Staff Accountants (whether they report to you directly, or indirectly not report to you)
• Various other finance-driven side tasks, like contact with banks, preparing & signing payments in collaboration with Accounts payable, cash flow planning, etc