LocOp Accounting Expert

About us

The Nokia Global Technology Center plays a key role in the Research and Development projects of Nokia. We are working on the development of such future products like TELCO cloud, Telco Security, IMS, Voice over LTE and mobile networks. The latter is nowadays the most often used Hungarian product of the world, to which more than 1,7 billion subscriber connects worldwide.

Nokia has a Global Business Services center (GBS) in Budapest with about 260 employees providing financial services globally.

Key responsibilities

• 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

• 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
• Support for profit streaming/OA fee accrual, TP adjustments
• Support in sign off defined statutory/tax deliverables prepared by Service Provider in alignment with FAM
• 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. 
• Manages and contributes to mitigation of risk
• Manages, monitors and controls the outsourcing of activities to external Service providers (statutory/tax and accounting KPI’s/CPI’s)
   
  Requirements

• Written and spoken English is a requirement, other language skills are advantage
• Experience and good understanding of statutory and accounting processes (full scale accounting)
• 3-5 years experience
• Finance or economics degree
• Good team player, precise, reliable, able to meet deadlines, proactive, problem solving, can do attitude

• Service provider management experience
• Stakeholder management
• Communication, motivation and negotiation skills