IT Tem Financial Operations

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**
Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you’ll be part of**
Strategy and Technology lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas for Nokia to create new value. We set the company’s strategy and technology vision, offer an unparalleled research foundation for innovation, and provide critical support infrastructure for Nokia.

Our Digital Office Infrastructure Network Services team manages globally the life cycle, delivery, cost, quality and performance of all network and voice services ranging from Fixed & Mobile voice to VoIP and Call Center. 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 services are mobile, fixed voice with more than 70.000 subscribers in more than 74 countries with up to 170 communication service providers and an average volume for orders and incidents of 3.000 per month.

**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 in order 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 Mandarin; Japanese, French; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Vietnamese are a plus.

This job profile should be seen as a role description and is not to be used to evaluate a position or task.

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer.

**Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality**:

- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orienta