Finance and controlling
Senior Financial Accountant
Imagine a future where you’re using your knowledge and expertise in financial reporting to ensure high-quality financial assurance and transparency.

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for a broad set of financial accounting and reporting processes concerning the Group’s legal entities, incl. month-end closing, reconciliations, and statutory accounts, as well as performing internal controls. You’ll also play a significant role in process optimisation, aided by your significant experience in the field.
Welcome to Financial Accounting & Controlling
You’ll be part of Financial Accounting APAC, US Support, DE and Nordic team where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for delivering standardised, high quality, and timely accounting and reporting products within FAC.
As a team, we create a workplace culture centred around teamwork and development through close collaboration with our colleagues and stakeholders within and outside of the FAC department.
You’ll play an important role in:
- preparing appropriate financial journals and reconciling your entities’ accounts with respect to period-end close deadlines
- preparing statutory financial statements in accordance with US GAAP accounting standards
- engaging with our external auditors, and providing high-quality audit documentation as part of our annual audit wheel
- reporting on legal entities for group reporting purposes (IFRS) and maintaining a high-quality control environment
- driving the continuous optimisation of financial reporting processes, specifically in connection with month-end and reporting systems with involvement in ad hoc projects
To succeed in the role, you:
- have a bachelor’s degree in accounting, controlling, or similar (ACA-qualified) and are fluent in written and spoken English
- proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) with experience using financial accounting ERPs such as SAP and Hyperion; knowledge of reporting tools like One Source and Cadency is a plus
- have extensive relevant experience working in a public accounting firm or a finance department in an international company, incl. thorough knowledge of US GAAP and/or a country-specific GAAP
- adapt well, take responsibility, are a self-starter, work collaboratively, and value teamwork across teams and countries
- demonstrate analytical thinking, logical reasoning, and the ability to critically assess information.
Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.
Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.
As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.
Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.