What's the role?
Are you ready to elevate your accounting career in a company that puts its people at the heart of everything it does? Join our market-leading organisation as a Senior General Ledger Accountant and be part of a dynamic, international team that’s shaping the future of finance across the globe.
As a Senior General Ledger Accountant, you will join a diverse professional Finance Shared Service Centre team providing accounting services to Hilti entities in Northern Europe and Middle East/Africa. Being responsible for performing compliant General Ledger processes, you will support several market organisations and their senior finance leadership team to deliver impactful results and contribute to long-term Hilti strategy in making construction industry better.
Who is Hilti?
At Hilti, we are a passionate global team committed to making construction better. As a trusted partner for productivity, safety, and sustainability, we provide our customers innovative solutions that impact the buildings, roads, and infrastructure people rely on every day.
Hilti is where individuals grow lasting careers by exploring possibilities, maximizing their potential, owning their development, and making a real difference every day
What does the role involve?
- Full ownership for execution of general ledger processes for defined entities
- Analysing financial data and providing clear insights to the management enabling informed decision-making
- Business partnering with finance leadership team and other stakeholders by linking business decisions to accounting processes
- Driving process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and quality in accounting practices while setting and achieving higher service level standards
- Identifying training needs and contributing to development of other team members
- Contributing to initiatives that span multiple regions and business functions, enhancing your skills and broadening your expertise
Our people say they’re proud to work for Hilti, thanks to the quality of our products and the way we look after our people.
What do we offer?
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- Company vehicle and fuel card for sales roles
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
What you need is:
- Qualified or part qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA)
- experience led knowledge of finance accounting and tax as well as a good understanding of double entry/bookkeeping
- LEAN mindset and strive for improvement
- Excellent communication skills, with experience of working with senior management
- Strong attention to detail
- To be enthusiastic, proactive and self-reliant person and a good team player
- A willingness and ability towards continuous learning
- Technical skills (Power Query, Business Intelligence, Macro, SAP, S/4 HANA etc.) as an advantage, but not essential
Who should apply?
We have an excellent mix of people and some of our best account managers joined us with no experience. So, if you’ve never worked in sales or construction, that’s fine with us. Success at Hilti is down to teamwork and ability, no matter what your background.
Click through the 'Apply Now' button where you will be asked to upload your CV and answer a couple of short questions – the whole process should take around 90 seconds.
If you need any support with your Hilti finance application, please contact gbcareers@hilti.com .
What you can expect when applying to a position with Hilti:
1. We are committed to having all applications reviewed by a human and while nobody is infallible, we stand by our people centric approach to everything we do
2. Once you submit your application you can expect to receive automated notifications from our system (triggered by our recruiting team)
3. Applications that do not make it to the interview stage (with a hiring manager) will not receive personalized feedback.
4. Our end-to-end recruitment process (including evaluation time and interviews) may last between 3 and 6 weeks. You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 weeks (on average) regardless of outcome
5. We wish you the best in your application process. Check out our career frequently asked questions for application and interview tips.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value the contributions of all our team members regardless of sex, gender identity/expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or family status.
