Senior Accounting Manager

At Heart Aerospace we develop the ES-30, a regional electric airplane with a capacity of 30 passengers driven by electric motors with battery derived energy. The ES-30 is expected to enter into service in 2028.

We are now looking for a Senior Accounting Manager to join our Finance team in Gothenburg. Do you have experience from accounting and want to contribute to a more sustainable future?

Your mission

As senior accounting manager, you are responsible for ensuring that Heart Aerospace has an efficient and scalable accounting function. You will have a key role in assuring compliance and defining the processes, streamline and automate processes and procedures in the organization as well as landscape of the financial systems. The role enables you and requires you to interact with all parts of the organization, to use your understanding of organizational needs and translate them into digital processes. Our employees are our biggest asset, and your leadership skills are essential to our company development. We are open to tailor the role as we grow in the future.

You will report to the Chief Financial Officer and be part of a small but growing team of 4 people.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Lead the accounting process
- Manage the ERP finance system set up
- Lead the accounting development
- Identify organizational needs, plan and initiate new process
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Ensure compliance with IFRS and other regulations

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Participate in developing the company and support daily company development

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Establish and maintain a company support desk for all parts of the ERP system


Skills and requirements

About you

We believe that you thrive in an environment where you get to solve organizational, system and process challenges. We are a small team, so you are expected to be hands-on and contribute to the team, whenever needed. In our company we are all team players, with a great team spirit and enjoy working in a cross-functional team. As a person you are analytical, structured and have a track record in accounting and IFRS.

Education/experience

- Relevant academic background, e.g. M.Sc. accounting, business economics or similar
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience within accounting/auditing role
- Strong IFRS experience
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Experience of implementing ERP system is an advantage

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Experience with managing and driving an accounting function.

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Risk management experiences are beneficial

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Hands-on experience from working with quality standards (and applicable regulations)



Specific skills/abilities

- Structured, self-going and initiative taking
- Sees possibilities and not challenges when there are room for improvement
- Comfortable in working at a start-up with high tempo in an international environment
- Basic knowledge of using Microsoft Office suite
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Excellent verbal & written communication skills in English

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Eagerness to work with others

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Passion for aircraft and Heart’s mission


We recommend you submit your application in English as soon as possible as selection and interviews are held continually.

At Heart Aerospace we work at the cutting edge of technology while contributing towards a sustainable future. Heart’s mission is to create the world’s greenest, most affordable, and most accessible form of transport.

Working at Heart Aerospace is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world more accessible and sustainable. Come help us write a new chapter in the history of aviation together!

We seek experienced and skilled professionals to join our fast-moving team developing a new electric aircraft in Sweden. We’re in a very expansive phase and now is the time to join our team! Visit our career site and check out what it is like working at Heart.

Heart Aerospace is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.