Senior Accounting Specialist (Temporary)

Advance your accounting skills in a global, fast‑growing organization

Are you ready to elevate your accounting career in a fast-growing international environment? As a Senior Accounting Specialist at NKT, you will join a rapidly growing global team where your accounting skills, ideas, and curiosity truly matter. Based in our Kaunas headquarters—home to ~190 colleagues across all functions—you will gain exposure to a broad range of financial processes and play an important role in improving our accounting operations. This is an exciting opportunity to grow professionally, support continuous improvements, and contribute to a culture where development and collaboration go hand in hand. The agreement will be temporary for 2 year, with the possibility of extension. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in an international environment. Are you ready to apply your accounting knowledge and help shape smarter and more efficient processes?

Maintain high-quality accounting operations and pursue continuous improvements

In this role, you will ensure accurate and timely handling of Accounts Payable tasks, participate in period‑close activities, and support both routine and more complex accounting processes. You will work closely with the Team Lead, contribute to audits, support junior colleagues, and engage in improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, accuracy, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Your responsibility will be to:

• Process and book incoming invoices, run payments, and support period‑close for Accounts Payable.
• Prepare audit data and support auditors during reviews.
• Deliver services according to policies, controls, and procedures.
• Train and guide junior team members and act as a deputy team leader.
• Identify improvement opportunities and support projects requiring accounting skills.

You will collaborate closely with the Team Lead and internal stakeholders, including outsourcing partners and authorities. The position is based in Kaunas with a hybrid work setup.

Detail-oriented, motivated, and supportive team contributor

You thrive in an environment where accuracy, consistency, and teamwork are essential. With a methodical approach and attention to detail, you are comfortable managing both tasks that require working with minimal supervision and collaborative responsibilities. You enjoy sharing knowledge, contributing to improvements, and ensuring high-quality outcomes in a structured setting that allows occasional adjustments.

You also have:

• A degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of accounting/AP/AR experience, in Shared Services or a major company.
• Advanced MS Excel skills and good command of Microsoft Office tools.
• Knowledge of SAP or similar ERP systems.
• Good understanding of internal controls and risk management.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Grow your accounting career in a global environment

NKT is committed to promoting a diverse organization and a culture where people from different backgrounds can thrive and are inspired to perform at their best. We believe that a diverse organization enables sustainable performance, and that an inclusive and welcoming culture makes for a better place to work.

At NKT, we offer you a modern office in Kauno Dokas, a workplace where your skills truly matter, and plenty of opportunities to learn, grow, and contribute meaningfully. You will benefit from working in a global environment, with flexible working conditions, hybrid work, private health insurance, LinkedIn Learning access, additional paid holidays, and various well‑being initiatives.

Benefits and opportunities we provide

We offer you a modern office at Kauno Dokas with workplace where your knowledge and experience matter and also full of learning opportunities, and potential. In addition, we are offering:

• Opportunity to be a part of the global team.
• Interesting challenges and tasks, learning opportunities.
• Private health insurance.
• Additional 4 days of paid holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Tai chi classes on a regular basis.
• Company-funded access to Linkedin Learning platform.
• Free parking next to the office.

Salary range for this position is from 2700 Eur to 2900 Eur Gross.

Read more about our offer and listen to some voices of NKT Connectors here! Aware that personality and cognitive tests might be included in the recruitment process. We will review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ugnė Šidlauskė, HR Partner at Ugne.Sidlauske@nkt.com. Please note that due to the GDPR regulations we cannot accept any applications via e-mail.

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About NKT
NKT connects a greener world with high-quality power cable technology and takes centre stage as the world moves towards green energy. NKT designs, manufactures and installs low-, medium- and high-voltage power cable solutions enabling sustainable energy transmission. Since 1891, NKT has innovated the power cable technology building the infrastructure for the first light bulbs to the megawatts created by renewable energy today. NKT is headquartered in Denmark and employs 6,000 people. NKT is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and realised a revenue of EUR 3.3 billion in 2024. We connect a greener world. www.nkt.com