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Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

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Budapest
Mid level
Budapest
Mid level
This role involves ensuring accurate month-end closes and timely submission of financial reports, giving accounting support, coordinating with various teams for accurate financial representation, and adhering to financial policies. The analyst will perform reconciliations, prepare reports, and support decision-making with financial analysis.
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Job Description :

Job Title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Contract term: Full time, Permanent

Context/Scope:

Financial Controlling and Analysis (FC&A) Tower is part of Global Business Operations and provides oversight on financial activities and controls including general accounting, management and external reporting and financial planning and analysis. The tower is responsible for the interpretation of financial and statutory data, the coordination and management of financial and statutory reporting, the management of the P&L and balance sheet delivering solutions that will increase insight and transparency. Tower responsibilities also include ensuring there is a true and fair representation of business performance at the cut-off point for the period and transparency on financials for Business Performance Management.

Purpose of Role:

  • Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closes, the timely and accurate submission of the financial & statutory report
  • Give technical accounting support within his/her own discipline to the FC team,
  • Partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial statements accurately and completely reflects our business operations
  • Support the decision making process with different financial controlling analysis,
  • Ensure that the policies and procedures are understood and followed in the team and act as advisor to other GBO group function teams

Top 3-5 Accountabilities:

  • Perform month end close responsibilities including journal entry preparation, supports the reconciliation process (e.g. accounting guidance and ensuring proper backup information and data in alignment with PCAOB requirements)
  • Prepare financial & statutory reports and oversee the statutory adjustment and transfer pricing process
  • Ensure that financial & statutory processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with the internal (CARM) and external requirements
  • Understand, interpret, and implement Group Accounting and Reporting requirements; communicate requirements to the rest of the Financial Control team and to relevant teams in GBO
  • Support the FAC process, provide analysis for the FAC completion

Qualifications and Experience Required:

  • Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business
  • Qualified accountant
  • 4-5 years’ experience in relevant area
  • Experience working within an international / multicultural environment
  • Exemplary Risk Management (Internal Controls, Managing Risk, Embedding Compliance & Ethics)
  • Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)
  • Strong analytical skills to be able to see and understand the big picture and deliver high level message, offering  solutions for issues
  • Fluent English knowledge

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Rewards & Benefits Statement

  • Flexible Benefits (‘Cafeteria’) package
  • Medicover ‘White’ Private Health Insurance Package
  • Unique Family Leave opportunity
  • We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
  • You will deal with world class brand portfolio
  • Wide variety of thematic events, afterwork activities organized by employee communities
  • Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
  • We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
  • Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar

    Diversity statement

    Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

    We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

    Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

    Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

    If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.

    Worker Type :

    Regular

    Primary Location:

    Budapest

    Additional Locations :

    Job Posting Start Date :

    2025-03-05

    Top Skills

    Analytical Reporting
    Financial Controlling
    Financial Planning
    General Accounting
    Journal Entry Preparation
    Management Reporting
    Month-End Close
    Statistical Reporting

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