Financial Accountant

Company Description

Heimstaden Bostad is a leading European residential real estate company, with an evergreen perspective and a mission to acquire, develop, and operate Friendly Homes.

Are you detail-oriented, organized, and passionate about financial accuracy? We're looking for a proactive Financial Accountant to join our dynamic team and play a key role in managing accounting activities for one of our portfolios. This portfolio was previously managed financially externally and will now be brought inhouse. So this role requires being part of this project to implement a new structure for the financial activities for this portfolio.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Execute monthly closing process; closing subledgers, define/update accruals and provisions, review trial balance.
• Reconcile Indirect tax, perform VAT reporting and process VAT returns
• Responsible for ensuring all month-end, quarter-end and year-end reconciliations are made in a timely manner, with proper quality.
• Support monthly, quarterly and annual internal and external reporting
• Oversee monthly prolongation of rent, create invoices in D365 and book AR/debit positions in D365 (highly automated process)
• Assist Customer service / Admin & Back-office in resolving customer queries related to individual payments and invoices.
• Booking of journal vouchers (e.g. collection of reminder fees, write-off of receivables, income/expenses relating to other periods, insurance reimbursements etc.)
• Reconciliation and clearing of suspense accounts
• Create annual accounts for customers, summarising payables and receivables and relevant additional documentation, leveraging available system support in D365
• Matching of incoming payments to customer accounts
• Regular alignment with Accounts Payable Accountants and Cash Manager to facilitate optimal cooperation with banking partners (e.g. automated bank statement matching) and efficient repatriation of cash/profits to Group

To succeed in this role you bring the following qualifications:

• Fully qualified Accountant: ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• Bachelor degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience working as financial accountant or a similar role, preferably in an international business environment
• Solid IT knowledge and interest in ERP systems. Experience from working with projects and process development
• Excellent skills in 365 office (notably excel) and preferably experience with D365
• Fluency in verbal and written English

We conduct background checks as part of our recruitment process. If you have any questions regarding this, you are welcome to contact us!

At Heimstaden, we believe diversity makes us stronger. Our inclusive teams reflect the communities we serve, bringing bold ideas and shared passion to create Friendly Homes and shape the future of residential living.