Join Tampnet as a Senior Accountant!

Are you ready to take on an exciting role in a dynamic and innovative company? Tampnet, the world leader in offshore communication solutions, is seeking a Senior Accountant for a temporary position from January 2025 to August 2026, covering a leave of absence.

At Tampnet, you’ll become part of a forward-thinking team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, where collaboration across geographies drives our shared success. Together, we are proud to pioneer advancements in offshore connectivity, making a tangible impact on people's lives and contributing to a greener planet.

Main responsibilities and tasks

• Accounting tasks from A-Z
• Perform general accounting and payroll tasks
• Payroll for non-Norwegian entities, expat and international agreements
• Responsible to follow-up accounting and payroll in all entities in the North Sea region to ensure timely and correct accounting, payroll and reporting from these entities
• Accounting, remittance and reconciliation for Tampnet UK and Tampnet NL
• Accounts payable
• Reconciliation of balance sheet items and capex
• Prepare sales invoices for customers
• Perform month-end closing tasks
• Contribute to the professional development of the department
• Assist Tampnet’s Finance team in carrying out other relevant assignments

Qualification requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting
• 3-5 years’ experience with accounting and payroll (Authorized accountant is preferable)
• Experience from international companies or international business environments would be an advantage
• Experience from oil and gas would be an advantage
• Good understanding of relevant accounting systems

Relevant experience may alleviate the requirements 

As a part of Tampnet’s ESG responsibility, we have the ambition to build a strong, diverse, and inclusive company culture with a focus on gender equality. Our mission is to close the gender gap, promote equality, and contribute to a sustainable future for business and society.

By 2025 our target is to reach 30% women in Tampnet, and that is why we strive to achieve 1 of 3 candidates to be women in our final candidate pool.

Security Requirements

The position may require the processing of documents and information that mandates security clearance in accordance with the Norwegian Security Act. Read more about security clearance at https://www.nsm.no/.

Personal qualities

• Strong verbal and written skills in both Norwegian and English
• Good social and communication skills
• Flexible, attention to detail, and interested in understanding the business
• Self-driven and taking initiative
• Ability to cope with a high pace of work in a hectic environment
• Systematic, analytic and be able to see the big picture
• Enthusiastic and inquisitive

We can offer

• One of the country's most exciting jobs within telecom
• Fun @ work
• Exciting and challenging work environment and tasks
• Career opportunities
• International environment
• Good opportunities to stay up to date on leading technology and working methods
• Modern office space, centrally located in Stavanger
• Competitive salary and benefits
• A social working environment with teambuilding events and network building
• We offer flexible work hours so that you can collect potential kids or attend shows or similar at school or kindergarten when needed

Tampnet truly believes that a healthy environment and prosperous society are fundamental for long term value creation. We set ambitious targets within Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), and our ESG strategy secures alignment between our values, business goals and sustainability.

The Tampnet values are aligned with the UN Sustainability Goals, and we work continuously to meet these targets. Tampnet has for two decades delivered reliable and robust connectivity offshore, and our proven technology enables our customers to meet their own decarbonization targets.

By exploring how digitalization can help customers optimize business processes, enabling remote operations and reducing carbon footprint through use of sensor technologies, Tampnet is a key enabler on the road to becoming climate positive.

Our values are to be dedicated, caring, show integrity, be innovative, and be reliable. We believe in these qualities, which are essential for building an even stronger Tampnet.