General Accounting Delivery Manager

The Opportunity: 

At Hitachi Energy our purpose is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We bring power to our homes, schools, hospitals and factories. Join us and work with fantastic people, while learning and developing yourself on projects that have a real impact to our communities and society. Bring your passion, bring your energy, and be part of a global team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation.             

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone that is looking for a new exciting challenge or just wants to enhance the experience they have already gained. Join our great team and be part of our global digital transformation program which will bring our organization to the next level!

In this role, you will lead the General Accounting Department, ensuring timely and accurate financial and business closings and reporting for the Northern Europe region. You will be responsible for driving compliance with internal policies and external regulations across multiple jurisdictions.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Provide leadership and professional expertise to the Common Shared Services Finance General Accounting & Transactional Tax team, ensuring service delivery to assigned business partners in alignment with service level agreements.
• Promote process excellence by leading a team focused on creating, standardizing, maintaining, and optimizing processes within the area of responsibility.
• Fully manage human resource planning, recruitment, and development.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial and business closing, as well as reporting of Financials and Key performance indicators related to General Accounting.
• Ensure consistent application of internal control systems within the area of responsibility, working closely with control owners to develop and enhance controls and processes.
• Oversee the implementation of new tools and best practices to drive productivity.
• Build and manage strong relationships with business partners.
• Implement the strategic roadmap and operational plan as defined by the Global Process Owner and Finance Delivery Lead.

Your Background:

• Education: Higher education in Finance
• Experience: Min 5 years of previous experience in leading or coordinating a team (preferably in Finance Common Shared Services)
• Soft skills:
  • Well-organized and able to work towards deadlines
  • Ability to create an atmosphere of collaboration and trust
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to engage and motivate team members
  • Efficient, proactive, self-motivated and target driven
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, readiness to adapt to changing environment
• Hard skills
  • Excellent written and spoken skills in English
  • Very good MS Excel knowledge
  • Knowledge of SAP, Tagetik and Blackline is an advantage

More About Us: 

We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out. 

• We offer:
• A modern work environment in Ülemiste City and remote work possibility
• A wide variety of trainings supporting leader development
• A diverse experience in Finance and interesting tasks
• Employee benefits (sport compensation, additional winter holiday, flexible working hours, free coffee & fruits, team events, seniority benefits etc.
• Contract of employment
• Work model: hybrid
• Benefits: We pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefits to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us, in work and out. We can provide more information during the recruitment process.
• Growth possibility:  training budget & training platform, possibility to change the role within organization
• Possibility to gain/ extend experience in international environment
• Possibility to work   for industry leader in green energy solution