Finance Specialist (9 mths to 12 mths contract)

at  Telenor Group

Telenor Group is world’s leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 158 million subscribers and annual sales of around NOK 99 billion (2022). We are committed to responsible business conduct and driven by the ambition of empowering societies. Connectivity has been Telenor’s domain for more than 160 years, and our purpose is to connect our customers to what matters most.
We have a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband and TV services, as well as substantial activities in subsidiaries and joint venture operations, including mobile financial services and online classifieds in the Asia region. Worldwide, Telenor Group and our operations’ teams are 14,000 people strong.
Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), established in 2017 and based out of Singapore, operates as a subsidiary of the Telenor Group. We deliver Global Category Management as a service to the Telenor Business Units and beyond, taking full responsibility for the end-to-end Sourcing process and performance of global spend categories. Functioning as one Global Procurement team across all Telenor markets, we enable Telenor’s strategic ambitions by becoming a centre of expertise in the pursuit of efficient operations. TPC seeks qualified procurement professionals that are comfortable working in a global setup in the fast-paced Telecom field.
For more information, please visit our website : https://www.telenor.com/about/our-companies/other-units/telenor-procurement-company/Telenor Group is a leading telecommunications company across the Nordics and Asia with 188 million customers. We are committed to responsible business conduct and driven by the ambition of empowering societies. Connectivity has been Telenor’s domain for more than 160 years, and our purpose is to connect our customers to what matters most.
We have a leading Nordic position in mobile, broadband and TV services, as well as substantial activities in subsidiaries and joint venture operations, including mobile financial services and online classifieds in the Asia region. Worldwide, Telenor Group and our operations’ teams are 16,000 people strong.
Telenor Procurement Company (TPC), established in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, operates as a subsidiary of the Telenor Group. We deliver Global Category Management as a service to the Telenor Business Units, taking full responsibility for the end-to-end Sourcing process and performance of global spend categories. Functioning as one Global Procurement team across all Telenor markets, we enable Telenor’s strategic ambitions by becoming a centre of expertise in the pursuit of efficient operations. TPC seeks qualified procurement professionals that are comfortable working in a global setup in the fast-paced Telecom field.
Functional responsibilities of Finance Specialist are to secure perform analysis, quality assurance, reviews, reconciliation of data and other adhoc tasks as and when assigned. This role is mainly responsible for support on day-to-day.
About the role

Finance Specialist reports to Director - Head of Financial Reporting - Finance. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure timely, accurate and high-quality delivery in terms of compliance reviews, identifying areas of improvement and implementing initiatives to simplify, automate and standardize processes, system and work routines
• Implement and maintain strict control environment in compliance with best practices, generally accepted accounting principles, Telenor Group policies and procedures
• Supports the Director/Manager Finance and responsible for the administrative and operational activities within finance function
• Actively coordinate with internal users/cost centers/functions for efficient processing of information and minimizing delays

Main tasks

• Responsible for administrative and operational support related to revenue assurance processes
• Coordination with internal and external stakeholders for understanding of process requirements and timely support/updates
• Identify issues and areas of improvement, suggest way to improve through automation and simplification way of work
• Demonstrate and practice change and constant improvement initiatives, challenges status quo and develop new ways of work to support the transformational journey to simplify end-to-end processes
• Actively participate and contribute in improving the overall revenue assurance process and build environment of trust and respect with all stakeholders
• Follow up with all corners to ensure improvement plans are properly executed, controls are properly put in place and practiced by stakeholders and reviews are done to identify any deviations in order to minimize any risk of misstatement in the revenue assurance process

Profile

• Broad understanding of end- to- end accounting and finance functions
• Good understanding of Procure-to-Pay processes
• Good understanding of Revenue Assurance process and activities
• Strong analytical and problem solving along with data analysis and handling capabilities
• Result oriented, demonstrating excellent collaboration abilities
• Able to work with a high degree of execution power and passion and deliver on stringent timelines
• High level of integrity and ethics
• Strong ability to communicate and interact effectively across organizational and cultural boundaries, internal and external
• Demonstrate commitment, maturity, flexibility and speed in response to business needs and operational challenges
• Attention to details, ability to handle large volume of data and information
• Excel, Words and Power Point skills are required for this role

Competence Requirements

• 2 to 3 years in a finance and accounting related role with experience in Revenue Assurance and huge data analysis
• Bachelor degree in finance/accounting discipline with good understanding of Revenue Assurance frameworks and best practices
• Advance user of Office tools and applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
• Able to handle big set of data and turn reports into meaningful dashboards
• Experience using ERP systems would be an advantage
• There may be possibility of contract extension/conversion to permanent role

Finance Specialist reports to Director - Head of Financial Reporting - Finance. Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure timely, accurate and high-quality delivery in terms of compliance reviews, identifying areas of improvement and implementing initiatives to simplify, automate and standardize processes, system and work routines
• Implement and maintain strict control environment in compliance with best practices, generally accepted accounting principles, Telenor Group policies and procedures
• Supports the Director/Manager Finance and responsible for the administrative and operational activities within finance function
• Actively coordinate with internal users/cost centers/functions for efficient processing of information and minimizing delay

Main tasks

• Responsible for administrative and operational support related to revenue assurance processes
• Coordination with internal and external stakeholders for understanding of process requirements and timely support/updates
• Identify issues and areas of improvement, suggest way to improve through automation and simplification way of work
• Demonstrate and practice change and constant improvement initiatives, challenges status quo and develop new ways of work to support the transformational journey to simplify end-to-end processes
• Actively participate and contribute in improving the overall revenue assurance process and build environment of trust and respect with all stakeholders
• Follow up with all corners to ensure improvement plans are properly executed, controls are properly put in place and practiced by stakeholders and reviews are done to identify any deviations in order to minimize any risk of misstatement in the revenue assurance proces