IT Tem Financial Services Operations

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IT Unified Communications (UC) Services team manages globally the lifecycle, delivery, cost, quality, and performance of all end user communication services ranging from Fixed and Mobile voice to VoIP and Call Center, Video and Virtual Conferencing and Webcasting services. IT Unified Communications services are being driven by the continuously evolving technologies and business requirements delivering the best services to all Nokia employees.

One of the key end user services are Mobile & Fixed voice with 80,000 subscribers in more than 72 countries with up to 170 communication service providers and an average monthly volume of 1,300 invoices.

**Activities**:
The Nokia IT (TEM) Financial Operations Specialist

Monitors the missing invoices and ensuring that they are obtained from vendors on timely basis.

Reconciles invoice against inventory, contract, pricing.

Identifies billing error, missed charges, determines supplier credits.

Requests and drives dispute-, credit-, discount-management in order to collect outstanding amounts or to reduce the services run rates.

Provides relevant charge-back information to the Financial Controllers.

Consolidates all invoices received (in local currency & Euros) into one general ledger.

Ensures on time payments and analyses and resolves payment delays within contract payment terms in order to prevent late payment fees.

Supports the good receipt bookings and accrual preparation.

Provides spend forecast for monthly and annual planning, tracks spend actuals and matches against latest estimates by type of service as well as per geography.

Runs service cost analysis and tracking based on incoming invoices by country/service/CSP to support cost performance benchmarking.

Performs Invoice audit against active contracts and inventory to identify charged subscriptions against Telecom Expense Management inventory.

Identifies any active subscription without valid user in order to prevent these Subscriptions from being charged by the respective CSPs in their invoices.

Owns a process to indicate the high spenders on different geographical and organisational levels to support internal cost control initiatives.

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering or a related discipline with at least 2 years of experience in IT, Accounting, Finance, Consulting and/or Analytics.
- Telecom Expense Management and/or Accounts Payable experience preferred.
- Analytical skills to compile information requiring combinations of data from multiple sources, the ability to work with numbers and formulas.
- Experienced in analysing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- Willing to challenge and improve existing process in a constructive manner by appropriately negotiating and influencing key stakeholders.
- Experience with SAP financial and procurement solutions (i.e.Ariba) and Telecom e-Billing systems desired.
- Professional working proficiency in English is required, additional language skills in **Japanese, French; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish** are a plus.

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