Accountant Specialist within Payroll & Pensions

Accountant Specialist within Payroll and Pensions | Gothenburg

We at Jefferson Wells are now searching for a passionate and driven Accountant Specialist in Payroll and Pensions to join our clients Financial Control and Accounting Specialists Team. If you enjoy working with accounting in an international, flexible environment, you could be the one we are looking for! Don't wait - apply today!

Details

City: Gothenburg
Start date: 2023-01-10
End date: 2024-01-15 with a great possibility of being prolonged
Employment: Consultant at Jefferson Wells, working at the customers facilities

About the assignment and the Financial Team

In this assignment you will join the Accounting Specialists Department (Financial Control and Accounting) within a well-known organization in the automotive sector. They are responsible for financial compliance in all legal entities of the company. Financial compliance is defined as meeting all statutory requirements and internal requirements as described in policies, directives and in Financial Policies and Procedures (FPP).

Financial Control and Accounting (FCA) secures financial compliance in all legal entities in close cooperation with relevant stakeholders through the FCA responsible and the Chief Accountant roles. FCA also manages the local tax administration and local treasury related tasks in accordance with directions and approvals from Corporate Functions. FCA reviews the legal entity finance and is proactive regarding risk management while securing adherence to Policies, directives, and instructions. The department are undergoing a digitalization journey, and are now looking for someone who can help drive this change.

Your responsibilities will be to:

* Ensure that salaries and compensations, social expenses including pensions are posted in the legal entity in accordance with IFRS and Swedish GAAP
* Independently analyzing the payroll & pension accounting for the legal entity in order to support stakeholders
* Lead assigned parts of the improvement work of the accounting processes for Payroll & Pension in order to increase effectiveness
* Provide the notes for provisions for pensions and similar commitments and personal costs to the annual report
* Prepare parts of the income tax return relating to payroll and pensions
* Prepare monthly tax return and ensure that payroll taxes and withholding taxes are paid on time

Required education and experience:

* Academic bachelor degree in accounting
* Minimum of 4 years of advanced experience gained in the accounting area preferable in payroll and pensions
* Good knowledge of IFRS and Swedish GAAP
* Advanced skills in SAP/MS Excel
* Proficiency in Swedish and English both verbal and written

Preferred personal profile:

* Have a genuine interest in accounting
* A team player with positive attitude
* Proactive on problem solving and analytical skills (holistic view with an eye for details)
* Able to take decisions and drive change
* Have a structured way of working
* Able to share knowledge and experience
* Organizational skills with the ability to prioritize
* Have an open attitude to work in a changing environment (flexible)
* Ability to work independent from others
* Able to build relationships, network and teamwork with all relevant stakeholders in a virtual international environment
* Have a genuine interest of digitalization and a good understanding of digital systems, preferably also been a part of a Digitalization Journey before


What we offer?

This is a great opportunity to be a part of the accounting team, on a long term assignment as a consultant, at a well-known and large company in the automotive sector. This is also a great opportunity to broaden skills/competencies and to develop both professionally and personally together with a team of highly skilled and dedicated colleagues.


Application

If you find this role interesting and want to apply, please do so by listing and explaining in which way you fill the different requirements mentioned above. Any application without such a list might be rejected.



We do not accept applications by e-mail.



The applications will be evaluated continuously. Please attach your CV and apply to this position through this webpage, as soon as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the position or Jefferson Wells as a company, you are more than welcome to contact Consultant Manager Carl Gabrielsson at carl.gabrielsson@jeffersonwells.se



About Jefferson Wells

Jefferson Wells is a part of Manpower Group and we are the global leader in accelerating careers and propelling business growth across Finance, Engineering, Purchasing, Communication, Marketing and other interesting fields. As a consultant at Jefferson Wells you will have access to a career network with thousands of colleagues within your specific field. We care about people and want our consultants to thrive and grow. We take care of our consultants and support them in all matters. We also arrange gatherings for our consultants at regular intervals so that they could meet with other people within their field of expertise.