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Samsung Electronics Nordics is now looking for an Accounting Manager to join their team in Stockholm (Kista) for an exciting and rewarding full-time position in a dynamic environment.

As an Accounting Manager at Samsung you will play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with regulations and driving efficiency in accounting processes. You will lead the accounting and financial controlling team, ensuring best practices in internal control and financial management.

Overall you will lead and develop the Accounting Team by supervising, supporting, and evaluating competencies, as well as setting and reviewing annual goals. You will drive the development of more efficient processes and workflows across the various areas within the team, and initiate and participate in various projects when required. You will overlook the Outsourced Shared Service Center in Bucharest and collaborate on projects within the European and Global organization, all while being responsible for managing a team of 5 individuals.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and monitor accounting and financial controlling team to ensure that SENA’s financial resources are managed in accordance with best practices related internal control consisting of:
• Responsibility for delivery of reliable financial reporting: overseeing end-to-end accounting operations, financial analysis and balance sheet reconciliations to comply with external and internal accounting principles
• Compliance in terms with all relevant regulations, laws, Samsung Global Policies and Procedures (GPPM), SEGAM, IFRS etc
• Efficiency: looking to make improvements to procedures and controls, digitalize, automize and other measures to improve efficiency in completing work duties
• Back-up for tax manager

Job Scope:

• Overall responsibility for accounting and financial controlling team
• Responsible to secure timely month-end closing (Income statement and Balance Sheet)
• Responsible for securing timely weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual internal reporting requests (IFRS)
• Responsible for securing correct external statutory reporting according to Swedish GAAP (K3 etc)
• Responsible to secure balance sheet reconciliations are performed according to external and internal accounting principles
• Compliance: Ensure that the company complies with external laws/rules/regulations and external and internal policies for accounting
• Monitoring and planning of the company’s different levels of overhead costs (General Expenses)
• Secure timely reporting of various types of ad-hoc analysis requests from HQ, EHQ and top management
• Drive the continuous improvement of end-to-end accounting practices.
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Managing an end-to-end audit process of current systems – while acting as the first point of contact for external auditors.
• Continually identify risks to delivery, propose solutions where necessary and effectively manage stakeholder expectations throughout.
• Internal Control: Identify risk areas and set up procedures to strengthen internal control.
• Back-up for tax manager in various tax matters
• Various adhoc tasks within the area of responsibility

Liaisons:

• CFO
• Finance Director
• Managers within finance department (tax, AP, AR, Audit & Risk, Procurement, Credit)
• People within the Business Control team
• HR
• Team Members

Experience & Required Qualifications:

• Academic degree in Business Administration, Accounting and finance.
• Min 5-10 years of work experience as Finance Manager
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Internal Control incl process and risk assessment competence
• Ability to delegate and manage the work of others
• Produced budgets up to multi-millions
• Experience running annual audit
• People leadership: Finance Manager
• Global company and used to different reporting lines to EHQ, HQ etc
• Tax competence on finance manager level to be able to be back-up for tax manager
• Fluency in English – written and oral

About the assignment

For this assignment you will be hired as a full-time consultant by Digitalenta. We offer our consultants a generous package including healthcare allowance, insurance policy, paid vacation days and pension savings. In addition, you'll also have a dedicated consultant manager available throughout your employment with us, in addition to optional networking activities with our network of consultants.