Build Your Career in Finance as an Accounting Specialist

Are you looking for a next step in your professional career? Join us as an Accountant and play an important role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, invoicing, and accounting operations. In this role, you will work across finance, sales, and logistics teams to maintain financial accuracy, support reporting requirements, and ensure compliance with accounting principles and standards. You will have the opportunity to work independently on core accounting activities while contributing to the smooth operation of business processes at a national level.

Your responsibilities

• Reconcile accounts and verify journal entries to ensure the general ledger is accurate and complete.
• Analyze financial information and prepare accounting reports and statements, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, depreciation statements, debtor and creditor lists, repayment schedules, and regulatory filings.
• Provide accounting support and guidance on hedge accounting and POC accounting to support forecasting and financial decision-making.
• Prepare and issue accurate invoices to sales teams, logistics teams, and customers in a timely manner.
• Resolve invoice-related queries and address billable line-item discrepancies.
• Review purchase orders and sales transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Collaborate with sales and logistics teams to verify transaction details and resolve invoicing issues.
• Monitor customer accounts, track timely payments, and maintain accurate customer records.
• Maintain complete electronic and paper records of invoices and financial transactions.
• Support audits, prepare invoicing activity reports, and ensure adherence to financial procedures and policies.

Expectations from you

• 1 to 3 years of relevant accounting experience.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, standards, and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience with account reconciliations and journal entry verification.
• Ability to prepare and analyze financial reports and accounting statements.
• Understanding of invoicing processes, purchase orders, and sales transactions.
• Experience handling invoice-related queries and payment tracking activities.
• Ability to work effectively with finance, sales, and logistics stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate financial records.
• Ability to work independently while managing routine accounting activities.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory reporting activities.

To succeed in this role

Success in this role requires strong accounting fundamentals, attention to detail, and the ability to maintain accurate financial records and reports. You should be comfortable working independently, managing routine accounting activities, and collaborating with sales and logistics teams to resolve invoicing and transaction-related issues. Experience with reconciliations, invoicing, financial reporting, and accounting compliance will be essential.

We also expect you to align with Valmet’s Leadership Principles—practical behaviors that guide how we lead, collaborate, and succeed together:

• Take accountability – Act with ownership, set clear expectations, and follow through
• Lead with courage – Champion change, try bold ideas, and learn quickly
• Build on trust – Listen to understand, be open, and create psychological safety
• Collaborate for growth – Work across boundaries, value diverse perspectives, and focus on customer value

We offer

You will join a finance environment focused on maintaining accurate accounting records, supporting financial reporting, managing invoicing processes, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and reporting requirements. The role offers exposure to a broad range of accounting activities, including reconciliations, financial analysis, reporting, invoicing, audit support, and cross-functional collaboration with sales and logistics teams. You will have the opportunity to build your accounting expertise while contributing to essential business operations.

Valmet offers an inspiring and challenging position with opportunities for professional development and growth. You will work in a collaborative environment that values innovation, continuous learning, and teamwork. We value our employees and provide the tools, support, and learning opportunities needed to succeed.

When everything works together

Valmet is where the best talent from a wide variety of backgrounds comes together. We work together with our customers throughout the entire lifecycle, delivering cutting-edge technologies and services as well as mission-critical automation and flow control solutions. Backed by more than 225 years of industrial experience and a global team of over 19,000 professionals close to customers; we are uniquely positioned to transform industries toward a regenerative tomorrow.

At Valmet, diversity of thought drives innovation. We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment, where people can be themselves and are supported to contribute at their best. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential, never on personal characteristics such as gender, gender identity, age, ethnicity, nationality, disability, neurodiversity, religion, sexual orientation, or political views. Join the team – and lead the way with us!

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