Accountant

We are now looking for an **accountant** to join **Sospro's** evolving administrative community in **Helsinki!** **_Sospro_** _is a domestic child welfare company providing high-quality foster and open care services to wellbeing services counties. Our work is based on a belief in the inherent goodness of people. Our values are courage, individuality, inclusion, and trust._ _We promote and maintain the wellbeing of children in foster care and respond to their needs using innovative, rehabilitative, and feedback-aware strength-based work. All our operations are based on research-based knowledge and feedback received from our activities, and we continuously develop our work. The impact of our services stems from the client's experience of being heard, seen, and valued._ _We are an open-minded pioneer and growth company where continuous operational development is central._ As our company grows, we are developing our financial administration and building our own internal expertise. As part of this development, we are moving accounting from an outsourced model to part of our own organization. The role of the accountant is new in our organization, so you will get to build the position and develop its content together with the rest of the financial administration. The position is permanent and full-time; you will report to Financial Manager Johanna Rissanen. We work in a hybrid model, and the position requires partial work at our office in **Ruoholahti, Helsinki**. **The accountant's role in a nutshell** Your duties include the accounting of the Sospro Group companies, preparation of financial statements, and official notifications. You will also participate in the automation of financial administration processes and the development of operating methods. **Your goals for the first six months could be, for example:** - Take ownership of the Sospro Group's accounting process. - Master the Sospro Group's financial statement process. - Identify opportunities and provide solution proposals for the development and automation of financial administration processes. - Gain a general understanding of the child welfare sector and internalize Sospro's way of operating. **Our ideal candidate** The person who will best succeed in this role is an accounting professional with **at least 5 years of experience** in diverse accounting tasks and a suitable higher education degree in financial administration. You have strong expertise in the accounting of individual companies and groups, as well as financial statements, and a proven track record of developing and automating financial administration processes. We use Procountor as our accounting system, and experience with it is considered an advantage. Experience in the accounting of a medium-sized growth company is also an advantage. You work proactively and drive tasks forward independently, but you also fit naturally as part of a community. You maintain straightforward communication with both internal and external parties regarding financial administration matters. **Why choose us?** In this new role within our group, a responsible job description is combined with the opportunity to develop the financial administration of a growth company. You will be able to shape the role to your liking and bring development ideas for the use of our entire group. You will join an enthusiastic and development-oriented community where you have strong experts from different fields around you and receive versatile support for your own work. Every Sospro employee, through their own role, helps enable meaningful child welfare work. Employee benefits include, for example, comprehensive occupational health care at Terveystalo, leisure-time accident insurance, and an annual incentive benefit. You can read more about our employee benefits on our career site at https://ura.sospro.fi/ **Interested?** If this sounds like the place for you, send your application immediately or by Monday **August 17, 2026**, at the latest. In addition to your CV, please include your salary expectation in the application. We will conduct first-round interviews in week 35 via Teams. The second round of interviews will be on-site in Ruoholahti, Helsinki. The schedule may change as recruitment progresses. If you have questions about the position, you can contact our HR and Communications Specialist Marjaana Rauhala, tel. 050 4319185, or Financial Manager Johanna Rissanen, tel. 040 7006621 (calling times: Fri Aug 7, 12–13, Mon Aug 10, 10–11, and Thu Aug 13, 11–12).