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About the job

We are looking for a Financial Accountant that will contribute and grow together with the Accounting and Reporting team within Alfa Laval Technologies AB. As our new Financial Accountant, you’ll work independently and take ownership of key accounting areas. You will have a vital role in ensuring the accuracy and quality of these accounting areas and their connected financial processes. You will work closely with the Accounting and Reporting Team to support ongoing improvements and to ensure that our financial operations run efficiently and compliant.

Main tasks and responsibilities will be.

Independent responsibilities

Your independent key tasks will be covering the responsibility for a few specific accounting and financial areas that will change over time as you grow within the Accounting and Reporting team: 

Example of areas could be Provisions, Financial Leasing, Inventory revaluation, Tax related reporting and Transfer pricing.

Within the assigned accounting and financial areas, the responsibilities will be:

• Take responsibility and lead activities related to specific accounting and financial areas to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Analyse and secure high quality of monthly group reporting
• Lead and ensure accurate forecasting activities
• Be a partner providing support and insights for local controllers
• Drive process improvements and strengthening the internal control within the accounting areas 
• Take lead and coordinate the audit processes, external and internal

Team and Collaborative Responsibilities

• Provide backup support for other accounting areas within the team
  Examples could be Salary related processes, Fixed Assets and Group reporting

• Contribute to the change process Finance Transformation that is a part of Alfa Lavals strategy in Finance
• Support a few central support organisations with controlling services

The position will be placed in Alfa Laval Technologies AB, a manufacturing company in Sweden.  

This role will be placed in Lund. Travelling might be needed from time to time but not on a regular basis.

Who you are. 

To succeed in this role, you know how to play in a team but also working independently, you are open to changes, and you embrace them. You master the ability to quickly understand the core of a problem and focus on the most important aspects. You enjoy analysing more difficult accounting areas and finding solutions to improve or solve processes and can explain these further.

As a person you are accurate, driven, target orientated and unpretentious. You remain confident in situations with unknown elements, and you can challenge yourself and others in a positive manner.

What you know 

Academic background in accounting at university level is required. It’s a pre-requisite to hold more than 5 years of experience working as a financial accountant. You have good working knowledge of both IFRS and Swedish accounting rules. Work experience of accounting in industrial companies or work experience as auditor is a merit.
You are an advanced user in Excel and have experience with different ERP systems. Experience from D365 is a merit. You can communicate and explain accounting well. And finally, you’re fluent in both English and Swedish.

What’s in it for you? 

You can expect an open and friendly working environment that is dynamic, collaborative, innovative and offers incredible scope: succeed here and you can go anywhere. We work in the spirit of equality and trust, empowering everyone to make their contribution, proactively and confidently.

We’re all about getting better, every day, so you can expect to be challenged to improve and innovate, optimise, and sustain an effective, efficient accounting function, internally and externally, that drives global profitability.

For more information, please contact:

Annika Persson, Accounting Manager Alfa Laval Technologies AB, annika.persson@alfalaval.com

Talent Acquisition Partner- Divya Sharma, Divya.Sharma@alfalaval.com

For union information, please contact:    

 Johan Ranhög, Akademikerna, johan.ranhog@alfalaval.com  

  Stefan Sandell, Ledarna, stefan.sandell@alfalaval.com  

   Monica Anderberg, Unionen, Monica.Anderberg@alfalaval.com  

We review applications on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible before 2nd March 2026. We may close the job advertisement earlier if we find the right candidate. Applications sent directly via email will not be considered due to GDPR regulations

We care about diversity, inclusion, and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.  Playing games is mandatory.   

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