Vodafone Intelligent Solutions (VOIS) | Senior Executive-Lease Accounting Analyst

What you’ll do

• We are seeking an accounting professional with experience in month-end close activities and practical SAP knowledge to support lease accounting and contract processing.
• You will help ensure accurate contract creation and modification, complete IFRS 16 compliance checks, post payments in accordance with contract terms, and resolve stakeholder queries efficiently.
• The role involves close collaboration with local market teams, finance operations, business stakeholders and landlords in a virtual, matrix-based environment.
• The opportunity to contribute to process improvements across Group Common Functions.
• Validate contract conditions and confirm that all required controls are in place before payments are posted.
• Post vendor and landlord payments in line with agreed contract terms.
• Resolve queries from local market Finance Operations teams, business stakeholders and landlords on a first-time-right basis.
• Respond to stakeholder enquiries promptly, clearly and accurately.
• Provide focused operational support to local market functions.
• Collaborate effectively within a virtual, matrix-based team and engage stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify and support process improvements across Group Common Functions.
• Analyse and respond to non-English queries from European stakeholders concerning lease accounting, using appropriate tools and process knowledge.
• Analysis of upstream dependencies affecting contract postings.
• Communication and collaboration within a virtual, matrix-based environment.
• Process contract creations and modifications accurately within agreed timelines.

Who you are

• You have sound accounting knowledge and experience supporting month-end close activities.
• You possess practical working knowledge of SAP.
• You have knowledge of, or experience working with, IFRS 16 lease accounting requirements.
• Exposure to IFRS 16 lease accounting processes in an international telecommunications environment.
• Experience working in a virtual, matrix-based and cross-functional organisation.

Vodafone Group Plc (VOIS - Vodafone Intelligent Solutions)

Vodafone began as Racal-Vodafone, part of the British electronics group Racal, and launched its UK mobile network on 1 January 1985; the business was demerged from Racal in 1991 as Vodafone Group Plc. The group is registered in Newbury, England, and its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange. VOIS (styled _VOIS, short for Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is the group's shared-services organisation. Established in 2006, it works from centres in countries including India, Egypt, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Spain and the UK, and provides technology, network, customer-care and corporate services to Vodafone's markets and group functions, including running the applications for EVO, the global ERP system that runs Vodafone's finance, supply-chain and HR processes. VOIS began operating in India in 2009 and has delivery centres in Pune, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad; the Indian entity is Vodafone India Services Private Limited. VOIS India is separate from Vodafone Idea, the Indian mobile operator.

Its finance openings in India are in Pune and include roles at DGM level in its accounting centre of excellence and accounting advisory team, which ask for a Chartered Accountant with expertise in IFRS 16, German-speaking specialists in lease and real estate accounting, and SAP S/4HANA finance consultants with seven or more years of SAP FICO experience.

• Industry: Telecommunications group; VOIS is its shared-services organisation providing technology, network, customer-care and corporate services such as finance, HR and supply chain to Vodafone businesses
• Headquarters: Newbury, Berkshire, England (Vodafone Group Plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange)
• In India: Vodafone India Services Private Limited (VOIS India), with delivery centres in Pune, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad; separate from Vodafone Idea, the Indian mobile operator