Junior General Ledger Accountant

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Kaunas, Kauno miesto savivaldybė, Kauno apskritis
Junior
Healthtech • Pharmaceutical
The Role
The Junior General Ledger Accountant will perform day-to-day ledger activities, including bookkeeping, reconciliations, and assisting with audits, while building relationships across teams.
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Description

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A. Since 2019, under EQT ownership, we're rapidly heading towards a €1 billion European leadership position in consumer health.

Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Junior GL Accountant for our office in Kaunas.

The role as a junior accountant involves performing day-to-day general ledger activities in an accurate, timely and efficient manner and includes general bookkeeping, reconciliations, and period-end closing.

The responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Prepare month-end, quarter-end, and annual closing tasks, such as: prepare various month-end journals, including preparing and posting manual vouchers and follow-up if applicable; prepare and post current and long-term accruals; prepare balance account reconciliations in accordance with internal controls; support in the compilation of financial statements and reporting package for consolidation
  • Assist with audit preparations
  • Provide information for performance indicators if needed
  • Interact and engage to build positive working relationships with Global Finance colleagues and other functions and the business as required. (e.g., respond to queries, follow-up on outstanding invoices, etc.)
  • Comply with internal controls and policies
  • Help identify and support continuous improvement opportunities within the finance function
  • Be a part of taking over the tasks from another company to Finance COE in Lithuania, and building up the team and processes

You will be a part of building an initial Finance Center of Excellence (COE) team in Lithuania including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Accounting. The team will consist of approx. 15 colleagues and the Junior Accountant will report to the head of Finance COE in Lithuania.

Requirements

You have a relevant academic education in Finance/business or similar and an understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting skills. You have a good knowledge of financial processes and have an interest in digital tools and systems. You will be a part of a global community in which fluently speaking and writing in English is required for the role. It is also important that you have good communication skills as you will have several contact points, both internally and externally. Furthermore, you are a person with strong problem-solving skills and have an eye for detail.

Key requirements:

  • A bachelor’s degree from university or similar in Finance/accounting.
  • 1-3 years' experience from similar roles
  • Language: Fluent in English, both speaking and writing
  • Experience and proficiency in Excel
  • Experience in using general ledger module integrated in ERP software
  • Experience in a financial process’ role, preferably within an international environment
  • Ability to prioritize and schedule workload

Merits:

  • Other languages; Spanish, German, Dutch, Nordic Languages
  • Worked in either of the following systems: IFS, ADRA, Aaro, Power BI, RPA.
  • Experience from MS Teams, PowerPoint, MS outlook
  • Understanding of business systems and applications  
  • Technical interest  
Benefits
  • Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
  • Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
  • Flexible schedule and life work balance
  • Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
  • Very positive work environment in a dynamic, international, and motivated team
  • Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.

Top Skills

Aaro
Adra
Erp Software
Excel
Ifs
Ms Outlook
Ms Teams
Power BI
PowerPoint
Rpa
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The Company
HQ: Stockholm
465 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1987

What We Do

Karo Healthcare delivers smart choices for everyday healthcare.

We own and commercialise branded, original over-the-counter products and prescription medicines across a range of everyday categories, including intimate health; skin health; digestive health, foot health; pain, cough and cold; wellness; and specialty products.

Our products are available in more than 90 countries and sold through pharmacies, retailers and via healthcare providers. We have our own sales organisation in more than 10 European countries, with the Nordic region as our core market.

Karo Healthcare is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and owned by EQT Partners since 2019.

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