Financial Accountant to a healthcare company

Financial Accountant to a global healthcare company You will be a part of the Nordic Financial team and reporting to the Financial Controller.The finance department is under a global change programme and gives the opportunity to develop and grow with the organisation for the right candidate. Principal responsibilities: You will work with a broad range of task, ie: * Accounting; Accounting reconciliations, prepare VAT returns, participate in month/year end closures, maintain and record fixed assets ledger, liase with Shared Service Center, journal processing * Compliance; Local statutory requirements, SOX * Payroll; Monthly payroll, quarterly sales commissions calculations * Collections; analyze accounts, maintain and update credit files and interact with clients and other departments You will also have the possibility to engage in other projects, for example develop internal financial processes and SOX requirements. Qualifications You have a business degree or other financial qualification and at least 3 years accounting experience as well as experience from participating in month/year end closings.You have worked in a multinational company, preferably in a Nordic division.Good working knowledge of local and US GAAP is important.Fluent both written and spoken in English and Swedish is required; candidates with fluency in Finnish have a distinct advantage. Personal profile To be a successful candidate you need to be problem solving, action oriented and good at building effective working relationships.You like to work in a dynamic and changeable organisation where you can use your analytical and critical thinking. Application We are working with the selection process ongoing why we need your application as soon as possible. Hays is the world's leading and most experienced specialist professional recruitment company.We are represented in 28 countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South America, Middle East and Asia.The Hays group turn over during 2007/08 was 30 billion SEK.We were introduced on the London stock exchange as early as 1958 and are noted on their FTSE 250 list. Our focus areas in Sweden cover most of the business world's recruitment demands.At www.hays.se, you will find more information about our breadth and our depth, about current services, and about the companies we cooperate with