AP Accountant

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Summary: Verisure is seeking a skilled, talented, hands-on and passionate AP Accountant to strengthen our Shared Services Center Team. This position will report hierarchically to the Shared Services Center Manager, based in Lisbon. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and to get exposure to a wide variety of accounting topics as well as team building activities. We see this role as critical for the achievement of Verisure’s growth and organizational transformation goals while Group Accounting aims for centralization and automation. As a result, we are looking for a self-starter and standout contributor/promising talent who will combine Leadership and Accounting knowledge with a proactive business mindset focused on driving value to the business.

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities):

• P2P process: receiving and processing invoices, assure communication to and from all
• Point of Contact for internal and external stakeholders
• Review and assure proper classification of cost center and accounts on POs
• Weekly and Month-end closing procedures including aging reports
• Process Payments
• Assist manager and peers on the daily activity
• Performing ad hoc Accounts Payable and Procurement duties as required
• Reconcile AP accounts on a monthly basis
• Collaboration with local finance specialists to accounting, tax, annual reports etc. to ensure adherence to local legislation

What You'll Bring (Qualifications & Experience):

• Experience: 3 to 5 years of previous relevant experience within an international, fast-paced company, preferably coaching/mentoring junior team members.
• Skills: Experience as an ERP user (ORACLE, SAP, SAGE).
• Education: Relevant degree in Information Systems, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Languages: Fluent in English (written and spoken). Spanish, Portuguese, or French are a plus.
• Attributes: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, highly motivated, and able to thrive in a fast-paced, international environment, demonstrating successful stakeholder management.
• Eagerness to learn and grow with the team, flexibility and ability to work autonomously, liaising with stakeholders based abroad.
• Demonstratable experience aligned with our Company DNA.

What We Offer:

• The opportunity to join a world-class, growing company with a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• A key role in shaping our new, centralized ERP Center of Excellence.
• Extensive training and development opportunities to grow your skills.

About Verisure: Verisure is the leading provider of professionally monitored alarms in Europe and LATAM, protecting over 4 million families and small businesses. Our success is built on our 25,000 dedicated team members who combine technology and human expertise to provide peace of mind.

The Company

We Are People Who Protect People

We are the leading provider of professionally monitored alarms for residential households and small businesses in Europe.

Peace of mind for families and small businesses

We believe it is a human right to feel safe and secure. We now protect more than 4 million families and small businesses. Our service includes 24/7 monitoring, expert verification and response, customer care, service and maintenance services, and professional technical support. As well as protecting against intrusion, we protect against fire, attack, theft, life-threatening emergencies and other hazards. Verisure people are dedicated and committed and provide what we believe is the best customer service in the industry.

Leading across a broad footprint

We are the leading provider of residential and small business monitored alarms in Europe. We operate in 16 countries across Europe and Latin America. Our business is driven by organic growth, based on our differentiated business model. We attract high quality customers. We work hard to ensure that our customers are happy. This contributes to an industry leading level of attrition and a long customer lifetime.

A technology-enabled human services company

Our 25,000 team-mates are the foundation of our company. Our business model combines technology and human expertise to protect people. We are a human services company. More than 80% of our colleagues interact with customers every day. This connection provides the insight that inspires our innovation. These insights are a source of advantage. We leverage these insights with the significant investment we make into product and service innovation. The close customer contact also fuels the pride which drives engagement.

30 years of experience – and many more to come

We have been protecting what matters most since 1988. Over that time, we have expanded beyond our roots in the Nordics and Spain. We now serve most of Europe and have also established a strong presence in Latin America. In 2017, to evolve our operating model, strategic innovation, operational excellence and access to talent, we opened our new Group headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2019, we formed a strategic partnership with Arlo, a world leader in connected cameras. Verisure acquired all rights to Arlo’s European business. This allows us to offer connected camera services in Europe as a complement to our professionally monitored security service. It also allows us to access new go-to-market opportunities in retail and e-commerce.

Our winning DNA

Everything we do is driven by our DNA.  Our DNA has enabled us to grow at a double-digit pace for many years and is setting us up to continue this journey.

• Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.
• Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.
• Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk takers and we learn continuously.
• Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.
• With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always