Account Payable Specialist
Home of the cool-headed and warm-hearted.
We are looking for a meticulous and motivated Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Finance team. In this role, you will contribute directly to the accuracy and efficiency of our financial processes and play an important part in ensuring smooth invoice purchase across the company. Interested? Keep reading!
Your tasks will include monitoring the purchase ledger and being responsible for seasonal closings and reconciliations. You will ensure efficient processing of purchase invoices and oversee the functionality of our internal invoice circulation and approval workflow, maintaining active communication with various internal and external stakeholders when needed. In addition, you will maintain purchase ledger master data, handle deviations, manage open balances, and participate in projects and development initiatives related to accounts payable. You will also guide and support our employees with questions related to purchase invoices and contribute to other routine tasks within our Finance team.
We are looking for a person with a degree in financial administration and previous experience working in accounting. You already have hands-on experience in payment traffic and ledger management, as well as auxiliary accounting tasks. You communicate fluently in both Finnish and English, and your Excel skills are strong. You are a specialist in your field and eager to share your knowledge while continuously developing accounts payable processes and working methods. To succeed in this role, you work proactively, accurately, and responsibly, and you are comfortable with routine tasks. Your strong pressure tolerance allows you to stay organized even in fast-paced and changing situations. You are systematic, precise, solution oriented, and capable of working independently while also being an excellent team player with strong communication skills.
We also appreciate a positive, hands-on attitude and an analytical mindset. An interest in developing working methods and financial processes is highly valued, as is previous experience with ERP systems. The ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment and more than three years of experience in a similar role will help you stand out as a candidate.
We offer you an interesting, challenging, and responsible position as well as the support of a highly skilled growth organization. This is an excellent opportunity for your own professional development in a dynamic, enthusiastic, and professional team where we work together and support each other. We have a multicultural work environment with room to grow—where you can use your potential and further develop your skills.
Main responsibilities:
Processing purchase invoices and managing the purchase ledger
Assisting in month-end closing
Handling travel and cost reimbursements
Supporting accounting and finance tasks
Maintaining master data and managing deviations
Ensuring smooth invoice approval flow
Participating in AP development projects
What we expect from you
Relevant degree and experience in accounting and payment/ledger tasks
Solid knowledge of assistant accounting, VAT and financial reporting
Systematic, proactive and solution-oriented working style
Strong problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills
Good IT skills (financial systems, MS 365)
Excellent Finnish and English
Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines
We also appreciate
Positive, hands-on and analytical mindset
Interest in improving processes
ERP experience
Ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment
3+ years of relevant experience
Qualities aligned with our company values
This position is a fixed-term substitution for the period 17 April 2026–16 April 2027.
Please apply as soon as possible on April 3, 2026 at the latest through our recruitment system at BLUEFORS.COM. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and the position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.
For more information, please contact our Accounting Manager, Piritta Halttu, piritta.halttu@bluefors.com.
- Department
- Business Support Functions
- Locations
- Helsinki
About Bluefors
The world's leading manufacturer of ultra-low temperature cryogen-free dilution refrigerators.
We design and manufacture measurement systems, that can provide clean and quiet environment for scientific research, even at ultra-low temperatures. Our systems have options which include wiring and superconducting magnets and can be customized to meet the requirements of each customer. We have a strong focus on the quantum computing and information community and are here to support scientists and industries go further in their endeavors. For this we have brought together the best minds from a variety of fields. If you are a skilled physicist, technician, engineer or business professional and looking for an interesting job in multicultural environment, join our growth story at Bluefors.
Here we are curious to the core, have wide-range expertise, and have one mission: progress. Continuous development, learning, and collaboration are fundamental to our way of working. In our agile company structure customers are in direct contact with scientists and engineers who design their system. We deliver systems all around the world and the markets for our products are constantly growing. Currently we employ more than 600 professionals from over 50 different nationalities. We offer competitive benefits package, employee share program, flexible working environment and a non-smoking workplace.