Job Description

The role will require hands-on accounting expertise on IFRS, strong analytical mindset to analyze and report on balance sheet, strong financial controls focus, and a growth mindset to continuously drive process, reporting and controls improvements.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Act as the primary contact with the Group Reporting team to ensure compliance with all accounting standards and implement internal accounting controls and procedures
• Advise business and finance teams on key accounting matters as and when they come up; write up detailed accounting papers stating the impact of new product propositions and complex transactions; have them reviewed by the senior manager and maintain them in the central Team site; conduct quarterly/frequently control (as preparer) to review NPD and propositions from designated tools and complete the accounting impact assessment;
• Liaise with relevant Finance Operations Manager to inform of the impact and track relevant actions to ultimately lead to a controlled compliant delivery of the proposition into live systems
• Prepare or Review where applicable, appropriate reconciliations between various systems and sign off as a reviewer prior to final reporting submission to the Senior Manager; Act as a backup/cover approver for the senior manager
• Oversee Consolidation entities balance sheet; Keep full BS reconciliations (as preparer, or reviewer or approver) and understanding of balances in the consolidation entities and ensure that all entries are understood, full supported and represent correct accounting; Limit use of the consolidation entities for designated purposes only
• Review packs and underlying validation checks by WD5 prior to submission to Senior Manager for second review and final approval;
• Engage with pack owners as appropriate to investigate any unexplained movements in balances, or differences in Validation checks etc. and lead the conversations; present a summary output at the end of each month explaining the details of the review process undertaken
• Act as Reviewer or Primary approver or Back up approver of certain balance sheet reconciliations;
• Support in driving improvement in processes and controls with a focus on efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging key systems; ensure strong SOX-compliant control environment.
• Drive significant improvements in streamlining extended trial balance through appropriate journal posting in SAP

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong Accounting and Financial reporting experience
• Applied thinker – using initiative to overcome challenges
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including presentation skills, within multiple levels of organization.
• Deadline driven with highest possible accuracy
• Ability to priorities and manage time efficiently
• 10+ year’s progressive experience, including audit training in professional firm and post qualification experience in Industry.
• Strong technical accounting background including thorough knowledge of revenue recognition principles, finance lease accounting and experience with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Extensive familiarity with global accounting processes/procedures and controls (including SOX/ COSO control objectives); demonstrated success in process improvement, with risk-based approach.
• Experience working across departments to implement new processes and improvement upon existing processes.
• Telcoms or Software company experience preferred
• ACCA/ACA qualified or any other appropriate professional qualification