Senior Accounting Operations Generalist

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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.

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.

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.

This is not a maintenance role.

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.

You will sit inside a Finance team that has committed to being the internal proof point for AI‑native operations across Aiven.

That means you are not waiting for permission to experiment.

You are expected to lead.

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.

• Automate before you execute: Before performing any repeatable task manually, ask whether it can be automated or AI‑assisted.

When the answer is yes, you build the solution or drive its implementation — in Net Suite, 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.

Your job is to bring them along — not by presenting slides, but by doing the work yourself and making the results undeniable.

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.

You are a generalist who can cover ground across the function when needed.

• Drive process documentation and standardization: Map current‑state processes, identify friction, and own the redesign.

Every workflow you touch should leave behind clear documentation and a lower manual burden than it had before.

• 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.
• What 'We're Looking For

You do the work differently: You are already using AI tools in your day‑to‑day accounting practice.

You can point to concrete examples of processes you have automated, accelerated, or simplified using technology.

• 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.

You know when to escalate and when to just fix it.

• 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.
• A pragmatic change agent: You do not need the room to agree with you before you move.

You demonstrate the value of a new approach by delivering it, and you bring skeptics along through results rather than persuasion.

• Systems fluency: Experience with Net Suite is strongly preferred.

You understand how accounting systems, approval workflows, and data flows connect — and you know how to make them work better together.

• High standards for data quality: You are precise.

You do not let small errors accumulate.

You understand that the integrity of the ledger is the foundation everything else is built on.

• Clear communicator: You can explain a process gap, a control weakness, or an automation proposal to a non‑accountant without losing them.

Full professional proficiency in English is required.

The Setup

This role is based at our HQ in Helsinki.

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.

Global Benefits

Our global benefits are designed to help you thrive and grow, personally and professionally:

• Participate in Aiven's equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Inquire about our Global Time Off Commitment (Parental and Sick Leave, as well as Personal Time).
• Enjoy country‑specific benefits for our global cast.
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