Support project finance operations by setting up and maintaining project structures in SAP, managing revenue/billing milestones, performing invoicing and PoD-based revenue recognition, ensuring accounting quality and compliance, partnering with project teams, safeguarding SAP data integrity, supporting audits, and contributing to process improvements and digital initiatives.
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About this opportunity:
As a Project Finance Accountant (PFA), you will support and execute customer projects from a financial perspective, working at the intersection of SAP structuring and set-up, order validation and booking, PoD-based revenue and cost recognition, accounting quality & compliance, and SAP closure.
We operate at the core of delivery, connecting finance, operations, and customer execution, safeguarding financial integrity while enabling business performance.
What you will do:
Depending on your level of experience you will:
The skills you bring:
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: Mexico (MX) || Mexico City
Req ID: 786917
About this opportunity:
As a Project Finance Accountant (PFA), you will support and execute customer projects from a financial perspective, working at the intersection of SAP structuring and set-up, order validation and booking, PoD-based revenue and cost recognition, accounting quality & compliance, and SAP closure.
We operate at the core of delivery, connecting finance, operations, and customer execution, safeguarding financial integrity while enabling business performance.
What you will do:
- Set up and maintain project financial structures (FAS) in SAP aligned with approved contracts.
- Maintain revenue and billing milestones, project budgets, and planned costs.
- Perform customer invoicing (including credit/debit notes) and revenue recognition based on Proof of Delivery.
- Ensure correct revenue and cost recognition and clean closure of project objects in SAP.
- Act as a financial partner to project teams, aligning operational execution, financial performance, and compliance.
- Safeguard data integrity in SAP, identify revenue leakage and compliance gaps, and support internal/external audits.
- Contribute to process improvements, standardization, and digital initiatives (SAP enhancements, AI tools) across O2C and project finance.
Depending on your level of experience you will:
- Execute accounting and SAP activities.
- Analize possible solutions to standard problems using existing procedures and precedents.
The skills you bring:
- Experience in Finance, Project Controlling or Accounting.
- Understanding of revenue recognition (IFRS 15) and the O2C lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with SAP (ERP / S/4HANA).
- Strong analytical and financial mindset, able to work across multiple projects.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering or equivalent.
- Advanced English (additional languages are a plus).
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: Mexico (MX) || Mexico City
Req ID: 786917
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