finance
Posted Jun 2Senior Accounting Operations Generalist
at Aiven
Helsinki, FinlandHybrid
Responsibilities
- Automate before you execute: Before performing any repeatable task manually, ask whether it can be automated or AI-assisted.
- Lead by example, every week.
- Own group accounting for AR: Together with the rest of the in-house accounting team, you will be responsible for AR across Aiven Oy and its subsidiaries, ensuring consistency and accuracy at the group level.
- Support the general ledger: Beyond AR, you contribute to month-end close, account reconciliations, accruals, and other general accounting tasks — including supporting the statutory audit.
- Drive process documentation and standardization: Map current-state processes, identify friction, and own the redesign.
- Collaborate across Finance and the business: Work closely with FP&A, Legal, and Enterprise IT, as well as commercial and customer-facing teams, to resolve billing issues, improve the order-to-cash cycle, and feed clean data into reporting.
Requirements
- The Role Do you get frustrated when a process that could take 30 seconds still takes three days because nobody has bothered to change it? Do you actually use AI tools in your accounting workflow right now, today — not theoretically, but in practice? If you want to own a core accounting function and use it as a platform to bring a team forward into a new way of working, this role is built for you.
- You will sit inside a Finance team that has committed to being the internal proof point for AI-native operations across Aiven.
- When the answer is yes, you build the solution or drive its implementation — in NetSuite, Zip, or tooling you bring to the table.
- Be the transformation engine inside accounting: Our accounting team is experienced and rigorous, but still new to AI-enabled transformation.
- What We're Looking For You do the work differently: You are already using AI tools in your day-to-day accounting practice.
- AR depth, accounting breadth: You have a relevant degree in accounting or finance and solid hands-on
- experience owning an AR function, with comfort across general accounting tasks.
- Local knowledge: You have working knowledge of Finnish GAAP, Finnish tax law, and the compliance obligations that come with operating a Finnish parent company with international subsidiaries.
- Experience with NetSuite is strongly preferred.
- You understand how accounting systems, approval workflows, and data flows connect — and you know how to make them work better together.
- Full professional proficiency in English is required.
- We believe in the power of First Team collaboration, spending 3 days a week together in the office to co-create and build the future of Aiven.
Benefits
- Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.
- benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally: Participate in Aiven’s equity plan.
- Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time) Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global cast.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.
Contact
- At Aiven, all of our emails relating to recruitment come from an @aiven.io, @greenhouse.io or @eu.greenhouse.io domain and all of our interviews are conducted by video call or in person.
- If you’re unsure of the legitimacy of a job opportunity/offer pertaining to Aiven, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at recruitment@aiven.io.
- There is an option to request a discussion in the application process but if you have any questions before applying please write to us at recruitment@aiven.io . #LI-Hybrid
Additional details
- We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions.
- Your Mission: Own the Numbers and Rewire How We Work You will be the primary owner of Accounts Receivable at Aiven, and a driving force behind the broader transformation of our accounting operations.
- The accounting function at Aiven has headroom to move faster, reduce manual effort, and produce better insight — and your job is to close that gap.
- That means you are not waiting for permission to experiment.
- In concrete terms, this means you'll: Own Accounts Receivable end to end: Manage the full AR cycle — invoicing, collections, cash application, dispute resolution, and aging reporting.
- You keep DSO tight, escalate proactively, and ensure the ledger reflects reality.
- Your job is to bring them along — not by presenting slides, but by doing the work yourself and making the results undeniable.
- You are a generalist who can cover ground across the function when needed.
- Every workflow you touch should leave behind clear documentation and a lower manual burden than it had before.
- You can point to concrete examples of processes you have automated, accelerated, or simplified using technology.