The Project Finance Accountant ensures accurate project accounting and drives automation in the Order-to-Cash process, requiring significant analytical skills and experience with SAP and related technologies.
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Job description:
The Project Finance Accountant (PFA) ensures accurate, efficient, and compliant accounting for customer projects.
As part of the PFA Data Integrity team, this role offers a strong opportunity to drive automation and digitalization across the Order-to-Cash process. You will collaborate with a diverse team of forward-thinking professionals who continuously challenge the status quo to shape innovative, future-ready solutions.
Qualifications & Experience
Graduate or Postgraduate degree in BTech, BCA, MCA, or Accounting/Finance, with strong understanding and hands-on experience in customer contract accounting, data & analytics, project performance management, automation tools, and compliance-related areas.
Minimum 4-5 years of experience in transactional accounting and financial reporting, with exposure to SAP/ERP environments. Proven capability in reporting, analytics, automation, and technical tools such as Power Automate, Power BI, Python, SAP solutions (SAP Analytics Cloud, Fiori, Business Objects, SAP Build Process Automation, Joule), as well as VBA, macros, and related technologies.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop a strong business understanding of project financials, including SAP project setup and core accounting and finance principles.• Lead and support automation and digitalization initiatives across the global Order-to-Invoice process.• Identify, understand, and apply emerging digital tools and concepts to drive continuous automation and process improvement.• Ensure data quality, integrity, and continuous enhancements within supported tools and systems.• Contribute to financial governance and stakeholder meetings by preparing relevant materials and delivering insights through business analysis and financial expertise.• Drive external projects system objects closure in SAP.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: India (IN) || Gurgaon
Req ID: 783153
Job description:
The Project Finance Accountant (PFA) ensures accurate, efficient, and compliant accounting for customer projects.
As part of the PFA Data Integrity team, this role offers a strong opportunity to drive automation and digitalization across the Order-to-Cash process. You will collaborate with a diverse team of forward-thinking professionals who continuously challenge the status quo to shape innovative, future-ready solutions.
Qualifications & Experience
Graduate or Postgraduate degree in BTech, BCA, MCA, or Accounting/Finance, with strong understanding and hands-on experience in customer contract accounting, data & analytics, project performance management, automation tools, and compliance-related areas.
Minimum 4-5 years of experience in transactional accounting and financial reporting, with exposure to SAP/ERP environments. Proven capability in reporting, analytics, automation, and technical tools such as Power Automate, Power BI, Python, SAP solutions (SAP Analytics Cloud, Fiori, Business Objects, SAP Build Process Automation, Joule), as well as VBA, macros, and related technologies.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop a strong business understanding of project financials, including SAP project setup and core accounting and finance principles.• Lead and support automation and digitalization initiatives across the global Order-to-Invoice process.• Identify, understand, and apply emerging digital tools and concepts to drive continuous automation and process improvement.• Ensure data quality, integrity, and continuous enhancements within supported tools and systems.• Contribute to financial governance and stakeholder meetings by preparing relevant materials and delivering insights through business analysis and financial expertise.• Drive external projects system objects closure in SAP.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: India (IN) || Gurgaon
Req ID: 783153
Top Skills
Business Objects
Erp
Fiori
Macros
Power Automate
Power BI
Python
SAP
Sap Analytics Cloud
Sap Build Process Automation
VBA
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