Tarja Karjalainen

Project Manager, Tilan DigiTurva Haltuun - project | Masters student at Oulu Business School

Oulu, North Ostrobothnia, Finland

About

tarkarja (at) gmail dot com 050 3490 908 I am a motivated and experienced financial management expert who is passionate about development and digitalization. I am almost a Master of Accounting (thesis under work) and I'm also a Bachelor of Business Administration, a Master of Science in Information Technology, and completed my vocational teacher studies. I am a customer-oriented, independent, and self-starting professional who is able to produce significant added value for customers and organizations. I have also built up an extensive professional network, from which I can get a lot of ideas and support. My financial administration experience consists mainly of payroll, dealing with authorities and customer service. In my career, I have successfully worked in sales, project management and HR system implementations, among other things.

Experience

  • Project manager at ProAgria
    Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    ProAgria Pohjois-Suomi ry:n Tilan DigiTurva Haltuun -hankkeen projektipäällikön tehtävät.

  • Professional development at Career Break
    Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 · 3 mos

    Finalising my master's degree in accounting.

  • Vocational teacher, business (in English) at OSAO
    Oct 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

    I was teaching e.g. Operating in digital environment, Marketing communications, Planning a business, Profitability calculations and Excel. I taught in both Finnish and English.

  • Pohjolan Matka (5 yrs)
    • Professional development
      Aug 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      On study leave.

    • Financial Specialist
      Nov 2019 - Oct 2024 · 5 yrs

      I was responsible for the group's payroll administration (outsourced), HR, information security and data protection. I did e.g. accounting, VAT and other tax declarations, reporting and development of financial management (digitalization) and I participated in making financial statements. Previously, I did payroll, notification traffic tasks and IT support tasks, and I was responsible for the payroll administration and IT support outsourcing projects and the implementation of the HR system.

  • Payroll Specialist at Škoda Transtech - Finnish member of the Škoda Transportation Group
    Feb 2019 - Nov 2019 · 10 mos

    I did hourly payroll tasks, including notification traffic and customer service. In addition, I played a significant role in the implementation of the new HR system.