Accounting Manager

We are looking for an Accounting Manager, responsible for accounting operations, including knowledge transfer activities into the Shared Services Center (SSC).

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team in the leading provider of professionally monitored alarms for residential households and small businesses and to get exposure to a wide variety of topics as well as team building activities.

The company’s success depends on its people and it invests in them every day. Working with Verisure is being part of an industry leading world-class company that has a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Verisure’s strategic context and growth journey

Verisure is the leading European provider of professionally monitored security systems with 24/7 response services. We protect more than 6 million families and small businesses across 18 countries in Europe and Latin America. Over the past years, Verisure has experienced an exceptional and resilient financial performance with a very long track record of double-digit growth - thanks to continuous drive for Innovation, our very sophisticated Go-To-Market approach and replicable business model for expansion into new countries.

With almost 40 years of insight, experience, and innovation, Verisure is known for category-creating marketing, sales excellence, innovative products and services, and customer-centricity. The trajectory over the past 38 years has been one of uninterrupted, double-digit annual growth.

The company’s success in the marketplace is based on high customer satisfaction, continuous technological and service innovation, its people and DNA. Thanks to a strong focus on high quality, our customers are amongst the most satisfied and loyal in our industry. We have some of the strongest growth and retention rates globally in consumer-facing services which demonstrates our exceptional service levels and strong value proposition to our customers.

Verisure completed its IPO on October 8th 2025, and trading on Nasdaq Stockholm began on that same day.

Role Positioning & Scope

The role focuses on leading a high-performing Accounting team within the Shared Services Center, ensuring accurate and timely financial accounting, reporting, compliance, and control activities for the countries within scope. For that to happen, the successful candidate is expected to forge and maintain strong relationships with local Finance Teams, Group Reporting, Tax, Procurement, and other relevant stakeholders across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Transition

• Lead the growth and day-to-day management of a high-performing Accounting team, by providing guidance, support and, technical expertise and ensure high quality delivery.
• Build KPIs for the Accounting team and track them on a regular basis.
• Own the transition and handover of accounting activities from local accounting teams in Europe to the SSC, ensuring appropriate knowledge transfer and business continuity.
• Lead company-wide accounting projects and act as a SSC ambassador and key point of contact for stakeholders.

Accounting & Month-End Closing

• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of processes related to efficient accounting activities across the countries within scope.
• Lead month-end closing activities, oversee accruals, balance sheet account reconciliations, and reconciliation reporting.
• Drive accurate and timely monthly reporting to Group through Hyperion Financial Management (HFM).
• Ensure accounting impacts arising from P2P activities are appropriately recorded and reconciled.

Tax, Compliance & Reporting

• Support the oversight of internal controls and the annual controls self-assessment process.
• Collaborate with the Tax function on accounting and tax-related matters.
• Ensure accounting processes and records comply with applicable Group policies, internal controls, and local statutory requirements.
• Support interim, year-end external, and statutory audits, coordinating accounting documentation and responses as required.
• Support the preparation of statutory Annual Reports and related financial information.

Stakeholder & Local Finance Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with local Finance teams, Group Reporting, Tax, external service providers, Procurement, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain close collaboration with local Finance specialists on accounting, taxation, statutory reporting, and other local requirements.
• Ensure Shared Services activities remain aligned with local legislation and statutory accounting requirements.

What Verisure offers

• Dynamic and vibrant environment - Our office is an open-plan space in which you will be able to interact with the best professional from different teams at all levels
• Periodic team building activities! - Because it’s important to have fun!
• Yearly learning and training programs tailored to each team’s needs
• On-site Gym - Because keeping healthy habits is key!
• Access to a robust Employee Assistance Program with Pulso Europe Portugal that includes 5 different support areas (Nutrition, Psychology, Legal, Finance/Fiscal, and Psychosocial)
• Hybrid model - Up to 2 days at home per week with two weeks per year to work wherever you prefer, during holiday seasons. Work from home and at our great Lisbon offices in Algés

Location

Lisbon, Algés (Hybrid)

Candidate profile

Experience and Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.

• 10-15 years of a strong professional experience in accounting, preferably within a multinational, Shared Services Center (SSC), or Global Business Services (GBS) environment.

• Fluent English; additional European languages would be an advantage.

• Previous team management experience, ideally leading accounting or Record-to-Report (R2R) teams.

• Strong knowledge of month-end and year-end closing, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, and statutory accounting.

• Solid understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) principles and their application

• Experience with financial reporting, internal controls, audits, and tax-related accounting processes.

• Experience with Oracle and HFM, or other relevant ERP and reporting systems is highly desirable.

• Experience leading or supporting finance transitions, migrations, or knowledge-transfer projects is an advantage.

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong stakeholder-management skills and ability to collaborate effectively with local Finance teams and Group functions across different countries and cultures.

• Strong analytical skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Ability to manage priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, international environment.

• Drive to find efficiencies and improve processes

• Ownership mindset and focus on impact

Strong fit with our Company DNA

• Passionate in Everything We Do
• Committed to Making a Difference
• Always Innovating
• Winning as a Team
• With Trust & Responsibility

Diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging at Verisure

At Verisure, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, recognising that diversity of thought and background only makes our teams stronger and more innovative. We reject all forms of discrimination and bias, and we believe in access to opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, age, disability status, race, sexual orientation, or any other status.

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