Accounting Expert

at  Nokia

FAMILY DESCRIPTION

Finance (FI) comprises all finance and control activities, external and internal reporting, and capital allocation processes. Provides services in the area of financial planning, accounting, controlling, reporting, performance management, tax, investor relations, treasury, and mergers and acquisitions.

SUBFAMILY DESCRIPTION

Global Accounting (GAC) comprises global end-to-end accounting processes with high quality, timeliness, and continuous efficiency improvement. Covers processing of accounting transactions to ensure accurate reporting in accordance to Nokia’s accounting and reporting principles and local statutory regulations.

• Responsibility for IFRS legal entity accounting & reporting for the defined countries in scope focusing on
• BS review and P&L variance analysis
• Maintenance of close checklist
• Maintenance of error log
• Aged item management: identify, escalate, follow up
• Sign off defined tax/statutory deliverables prepared by Service Provider in alignment with FAM
• Support in all audits to Finance Accounting Manager (statutory/tax)
• Support to Finance Accounting Manager for questions and issues arising from projects or daily business concerning accounting; including Service Provider support
• Support for internal controls and country internal audit to Finance Accounting Manager
• Single point of contact to accounting service provider
• Interface for Nokia stakeholders with regards to IFRS legal entity BS and P&L
• Provides support and coordination of global process implementation and tool deployments in accounting/finance area
• Complies with Nokia Global F&C accounting principles, procedures (including SOX and Internal Controls) and IFRS/local GAAP accounting principles for the defined responsibility area.
• Ensures that the right process is followed and that processes are compliant with Nokia global policies and processes.
• Written and spoken English is a requirement, other language skills are advantage
• Experience and good understanding of statutory and accounting processes
• 3-5 years’ experience
• Finance or economics degree
• Good team player, precise, reliable, able to meet deadlines, proactive, problem solving, can do attitude
• Communication, motivation and negotiation skills

Please refer the Job description for details