Vodafone

Senior Accountant

Vodafone

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Düsseldorf • Germany

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Support in building, evolving and sustaining an efficient and effective organisation which assumes responsibility on accounting judgements and accounting advisory
  • Supports in digitising and evolving the accounting principles function, using new emerging technology to make accounting knowledge and principle decisions more accessible to wider VF organisation
  • Participates in major transformation projects with accounting expertise from idea to implementation, as well as for the coordination of complex and material recognition, valuation and presentation issues with Vodafone Group Reporting
  • Supports team to ensure correct accounting in accordance with IFRS, VGIAP and local GAAP
  • Supports business partnering with commercial and finance units in relation to accounting issues, including identification of design options for the efficient implementation of the respective projects
  • Supports with documentation and expertise to enable close cooperation with auditors, VOIS, Group Finance and commercial units
  • Supports continuous alignment with the CSO and relevant markets and be a role-model in collaborating with the wider Finance community
  • Supports in evolving a culture of proactive continuous improvement of processes, systems and people and provide a platform for the people to develop their career and employability

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of how IFRS/ local policy is applied to commercial transactions
  • Leadership skills and experience in managing teams in a complex and changing/dynamic operating environment
  • Deep Technical financial and accounting skills
  • Excellent self-leadership, situational self-awareness and high resilience
  • Empathic with different personality types & deep interest in humans, embracing diversity for better outcomes
  • Excellent communication skills to ensure a transparent representation of the accounting judgements
  • Excellent Business Partnering Skills and customer oriented mindset
  • University graduate, preferably from Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics (or equivalent).
  • 5+ year experience in finance, in-particular in all areas of finance operations either by practical delivery or through oversight
  • Robust track record in delivering major finance transformation projects
  • IT and data analytics literacy
  • Significant telecommunications industry experience and business acumen
  • Very strong cooperation, coordination, communication and presentation skills
Benefits
  • Special consideration for people with disabilities
  • Diversity and equal opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
IFRSlocal GAAPfinancial accountingaccounting principlesfinance operationsdata analyticsfinancial transformationvaluationrecognitiondocumentation
Soft Skills
leadershipself-leadershipsituational self-awarenessresilienceempathycommunicationbusiness partneringcustomer orientationcooperationpresentation