Senior Accounting Operations Generalist

<p>We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone. </p> <h3><strong>The Role</strong></h3> <p>Do you get frustrated when a process that could take 30 seconds still takes three days because nobody has bothered to change it? Do you actually use AI tools in your accounting workflow right now, today — not theoretically, but in practice? If you want to own a core accounting function and use it as a platform to bring a team forward into a new way of working, this role is built for you.</p> <p><strong>Your Mission: Own the Numbers and Rewire How We Work</strong></p> <p>You will be the primary owner of Accounts Receivable at Aiven, and a driving force behind the broader transformation of our accounting operations. This is not a maintenance role. The accounting function at Aiven has headroom to move faster, reduce manual effort, and produce better insight — and your job is to close that gap.</p> <p>You will sit inside a Finance team that has committed to being the internal proof point for AI-native operations across Aiven. That means you are not waiting for permission to experiment. You are expected to lead.</p> <h3><strong>In concrete terms, this means you'll:</strong></h3> <ul> <li><strong>Own Accounts Receivable end to end:</strong> Manage the full AR cycle — invoicing, collections, cash application, dispute resolution, and aging reporting. You keep DSO tight, escalate proactively, and ensure the ledger reflects reality.</li> <li><strong>Automate before you execute:</strong> Before performing any repeatable task manually, ask whether it can be automated or AI-assisted. When the answer is yes, you build the solution or drive its implementation — in NetSuite, Zip, or tooling you bring to the table.</li> <li><strong>Be the transformation engine inside accounting:</strong> Our accounting team is experienced and rigorous, but still new to AI-enabled transformation. Your job is to bring them along — not by presenting slides, but by doing the work yourself and making the results undeniable. Lead by example, every week.</li> <li><strong>Own group accounting for AR:</strong> Together with the rest of the in-house accounting team, you will be responsible for AR across Aiven Oy and its subsidiaries, ensuring consistency and accuracy at the group level.</li> <li><strong>Support the general ledger:</strong> Beyond AR, you contribute to month-end close, account reconciliations, a