Financial Accountant

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

As a key contributor to International Accounting team you’ll be using your expertise to create and execute accounting processes, analyse data, advise the team, and support your colleagues. Our finance team is the best in the business, so come be a part of the team that keeps our financial operations accurate, compliant, and running like clockwork. Your main responsibilities will be to assist the monthly / year end close process and any other ad hoc projects.

• Support group and local statutory accounting and audit process for the Nordics and Iberian regions

• Responsibility for the posting of all month / quarter / year end general ledger journals. Ensure all entries have appropriate back up and are compliant with both US GAAP and local country GAAP.

• Detailed review of relevant P&L and Balance Sheet. Detailed analysis and explanation of Month on month, year on year variances.

• Perform required balance sheet reconciliation at month end. Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed and reviewed timely, research and resolve outstanding items timely with business owners.

• Identify opportunities for systems and process improvements to improve controls, efficiency and timeliness.

• Ensure complete compliance to any internal accounting policies, SOX controls and relevant GAAP.

• Contribute to complex accounting and compliance projects with minimal direction.

• Partner cross-functionally with our customers/stakeholders to strengthen relationships, broaden our understanding of the business and processes, and provide meaningful value-added analysis, reporting and business advice.

• Engage and support enterprise-wide social responsibility initiatives.

What we’re looking for...

You’ve got accounting expertise in Financial Accounting and US GAAP, a natural team player, and an ability to work effectively with your peers in other functions. You are comfortable managing data from multiple sources. You can describe complex accounting concepts in a simple way, you work well across functions and take ownership of the tasks that have been assigned to you. You are someone comfortable working under pressure and tight deadlines. It is an advantage to have worked with Local Statutory Reporting, tax returns and audit.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.

• ACCA, ACA or CIMA certification (or similar).

• Knowledge of accounting systems and applications such as SAP, AO and Blackline.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• A Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance.

• Experience in the preparation of general ledgers and report query and design for multiple countries.

• Experience with preparing local GAAP statutory financial statements as well as monthly and quarterly management accounts with commentary on variances

• Experience in posting journals and produce reports in nSAP/S4 and performing balance sheet reconciliation with detailed supporting documents.

• Knowledge of US GAAP and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles or IFRS.

• Experience in running continuous improvement projects, and conducting root cause analysis.

• Experience gained whilst working in the IT or Telecommunications industry.

• Demonstrated attention to detail and strong written and verbal communications skills.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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Diversity and Inclusion

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