Senior Expert Accounting Principles

Job Description

Senior Expert Accounting Principles (m,f,d)

Location: Düsseldorf

ID: 273150

The Accounting Principles & Advisory Senior Expert is a key role withing the Accounting Competence Center team , which operates within the End-to-End Accounting & Reporting framework of VF Group, serving as a key decision-making authority for strategic accounting judgements and as a nexus for compliance assurance on group level for Vodafone's local markets.
Within this, the Accounting Principles & Advisory team leads the application of IFRS and local GAAP policies as a part of Lean Corporate Services (LCS). It serves as a globally centralized hub responsible for overseeing the market-wide holistic appliance of accounting policies and reporting standards within Vodafone Group and its local markets. Any principle and complex accounting judgement is prepared, documented and governed by the team. Equipped with a broad range of IFRS and local GAAP expertise, the team is furthermore providing advisory services for the market organizations across the range commercial transactions. Accordingly, the Accounting Principles & Advisory team also supports strategic key projects to deliver compliant, consistent and accurate policy application for all business transactions across the markets.

Ensuring efficient and effective Accounting Compliance / Governance and Advisory through operational excellence:

•Participating in strategic accounting judgements within Vodafone Group and in-scope markets, characterised by a high degree on materiality, critical risk/chance profile and/or a group wider impact
•Supports in evolving a central framework on accounting judgements, which governs the end-to-end decision process, starting from enquiring accounting decision support up to ensuring an audit proof central repository for accounting memos/ fact sheets/ reports
•Drafts and updates applicable local market GAAP policies
•Collaborates closely with the Group Financial Reporting team to align accounting policy, judgement and policy application
•Supports the department to establish a close liaison with the Market Financial Reporting Team, to ensure the timely and accurate financial reporting enabling local markets certification of Income Statement, Balance Sheet Reviews and other Financial Statements artefacts (Disclosures, Management Reports, etc.) under both International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Local Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
•Interacts with Chief Accountants, Auditors and _VOIS for accounting treatment and advisory
•Supports with principle accounting expertise in strategic key projects, ensuring consistent, accurate and robust accounting treatment across all commercial and transformation initiatives within VF markets
Prepared by: Jost Bräckelmann Date: December 2024 Unique job ID: VF20529
C2 General
•Offers accounting expertise for process transformation in the Commercial Shared Operations organisation

What you will do

• 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

What sets you apart

• 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

This position is full-time.
Your strengths and experience count at Vodafone. We also value diversity and equal opportunities. We therefore welcome applications from people with disabilities and will give them special consideration if they are equally qualified.

We are filling this position at Düsseldorf for Vodafone Group Services GmbH.
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