We are Tibber, the energy company that wants you to use less energy. Whaaat? That’s right. We’ll get back to that. Yes, we are by definition an energy company, but we’re more techy than most. How and why you might ask. Well, a third of our employees are actually working on developing products and solutions that can help you use energy in a smarter way and at a lower cost – all with the help of cool fancy tech. Good for our customers, their wallets, and the planet.
Our growth rate has been truly amazing, and still, we’re just getting started. With millions of smart devices connected to the Tibber platform (like electric vehicles and smart thermostats), we have one of the most unique portfolios trading energy on the market.
🚀🚀Job Mission
Are you ready to power up your career? We’re looking for a sharp Financial Accountant to join our Norwegian finance team, playing a pivotal role in managing the financial landscape for our Norwegian legal and group entities. You'll dive into both day-to-day accounting and help shape the future of our global finance function. This is your chance to grow with a company that's on the fast track toward a sustainable energy future.
Your Role
You’ll master the monthly and year-end financial close processes, ensuring everything runs like clockwork. But that’s just the start! From streamlining accounting processes to managing cash forecasting and VAT filings, your work will help keep our Norwegian entities running smoothly. Alongside our Finance Manager and global team, you’ll also contribute to shaping our accounting policies across the group.
Closing and reporting. Provide a leading contribution to the monthly and year-end financial close, including journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, accruals preparation and analysis versus prior periods as well as budgets and forecasts. Additionally you will contribute towards cash forecasting and submission of VAT and other statutory tax declarations for our Norwegian entities.
Accounting policies/procedures. You will, along with the Finance Manager and our global team develop policies and instructions to be followed by both the Norwegian and group entities. You will be a part of ensuring that group policies and instructions are adhered to.
End-to-end process ownership. You will develop, enhance and maintain control processes to ensure that accounting is complete and accurate. Along with the team you will coordinate the approval process for external invoices and employee travel expenses, making sure we have the relevant supporting documents - You also contribute to the intercompany invoicing (Transfer Pricing) processing and reconciliations between entities.
Stakeholder management. We see stakeholder management as a critical part of our role in finance. We are looking for effective communicators who strive to work in a structured and transparent environment. This applies equally to both external and internal stakeholders. You will play a key role in communicating with stakeholders such as our auditors, tax authorities, country managers, and many more internally.
If you love collaborating and enjoy engaging with stakeholders—whether it’s auditors, tax authorities, or internal teams—this role is for you.
⚡⚡️Ideal Profile
Experience:
Qualified Accountant: You’re a certified accountant in Norway (or equivalent) with strong experience in compliance, audits, and statutory filings. Norwegian GAAP is second nature to you, and IFRS knowledge is a plus.
Flexible Industry Experience: While we value energy sector experience, we’re open to anyone from fast-growing industries who can bring relevant skills to the table.
Efficiency Expert: You’re a master of process improvement, always finding ways to optimize and streamline operations.
Tech-Savvy: Comfortable with accounting tools and ERP systems? Great! Experience with NetSuite would be the cherry on top.
Core Competencies:
Clear Communicator: You engage effectively with stakeholders in English, and if you speak Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, or German, even better!
Collaborative Team Player: You know how to motivate others and work towards shared success.
Detail-Oriented & Organized: You’re meticulous, ensuring everything adds up perfectly.
Proactive Problem-Solver: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, always anticipating challenges and coming up with solutions.
💆🏻♀️💆🏽♂️The Tibber Mindset
Being on a mission to change an industry as we do fundamentally also means being prepared for the unexpected. Tibber is a startup in the word's true sense, which means we are on a journey of constant change. We do what others say can’t be done, try and fail together but never lose sight of our users.
We work passionately with sustainability and a circular approach, both with our own products and in the entire ecosystem that is affected by everything we do.
We're very proud of being a mission-driven startup with thousands and thousands of new users every month. Starting out with two passionate founders in 2016, we're now 300+ people working for Tibber in our offices in Stockholm, Førde, Berlin, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Helsinki, and with that number growing each week, we’re still just getting started. Throughout 2024, we will continue to grow within our markets, and we are thrilled to be backed by investors like Balderton Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Founders Fund, Summa, and Schibsted.
At Tibber, we are committed to hiring, developing, and retaining exceptional people regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, or gender identity. We strongly encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply.
