We are hiring: Financial Controller

Come and create your future with us!

With us, you will:

• Do what you do best – all-rounder in accounting operation
• Get to use your development skills
• Enjoy working both locally and globally.

Main responsibilities

• Perform general bookkeeping tasks related to incoming and outgoing invoices.
• Oversee the monthly closing process, including:
  • Verify and transfer purchase invoices from the ERP (LEAN) to the accounting (Wintime) system.
  • Booking salaries and social costs.
  • Reconciling general ledger accounts and bank accounts.
  • Managing asset-related activities such as depreciation, capitalization, and new asset additions.
  • Handling accruals for costs, warranty expenses, and cut-off-related items.
  • Conducting currency revaluations.
  • Administering travel costs via Acubiz and transferring data to the accounting system.
  • Preparing special project reports for Business Finland.
  • Supervising the accounting processes of the Taiwan branch and the German subsidiary, managed by external accounting firms.
  • Performing group consolidation for three companies, including the Taiwan branch and the German subsidiary.
  • Preparing cash flow statements reflecting actual performance
  • Managing VAT reporting and income tax declarations.
  • Preparing year-end financial statements for submission to tax authorities.
  • Ensuring compliance with local and international tax regulations and statutory requirements.
  • Assisting in audits and providing required financial documentation to auditors and regulatory authorities.
  • Statistical reporting to the authorities.
  • Developing tools and processes if required.

Other team members will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, cash or payment handling, booking bank statements, and management accounting tasks like product costing and pricing.

This is a mid-senior level position to develop our accounting operation. As a Financial Controller, you will prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and process our tax and VAT-related reports. You will be involved in preparing financial reporting for our team in Finland and our branches overseas.

To succeed in this position, you should have at least a Bachelor´s degree in accounting. We hope that you have good knowledge of financial reporting and FAS standards. You are an advanced Excel user, and you communicate fluently in either Swedish or Finnish, both verbally and in writing. In addition, your ability to communicate in English is important. We appreciate 3+ years of experience in similar tasks.

On a more personal level, you have a positive, open-minded, and service-oriented attitude. You are proactive and you work in a structured way. Independent work is familiar to you but at the same time, you are a team player.

For further information about the position, please contact Shayekh Ahmed, CFO, tel +358 40 187 7212, shayekh.ahmed@herrmans.eu. Send your application (in English) by filling in the form in the link below, latest by 10.2.2025.

English Application Form

About Herrmans

Herrmans Bike Components Ltd is one of the leading European pioneers when it comes to developing solutions for the bicycle industry. Over 60 years of development and manufacturing, together with close teamwork with European bicycle manufacturers, ensures the competence of our company, both for the needs of today and for the challenges of the future. Herrmans Bike Components Ltd is an export company in Jakobstad, about 102 talents work in our headquarters in Finland, Germany and Taiwan.

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