Financial Accountant

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

We are inviting you to join Howden and become a trusted and valued member of our Financial Accounting team, which is based in the Budapest Shared Service Centre. As a part of this vital team, you will have the opportunity to support numerous exciting projects in addition to your day-to-day tasks and engage in exciting and challenging work that will help you develop your skills and expertise.

In this role, you will manage the end-to-end financial accounting process globally, ensuring the application of US GAAP and local statutory requirements while also meeting other job-specific requirements, which are listed below.

What Will You Do?

• Following and maintaining work related processes
• Delivering quality work
• Completing tasks on or before deadline
• Ensuring compliance with SOX rules, policies and procedures
• Performing daily/weekly/monthly reconciliation tasks and investigating/correcting differences
• Participating in corporate reporting (CRS)
• Performing manual journal entries  
• Performing month end and year end closing related tasks
• Performing balance sheet reconciliations
• Preparing VAT returns/Intrastat/EC sales and purchases reporting
• Running other standard reports including any calculation needed for accruals, fixed assets, other revenues/costs
• Communicating with colleagues within SSC, Global Finance and Business Unit contacts
• Manual invoicing  (recharges, scrapping)
• Processing bank account related transactions and reconciliation
• Processing Payments from e-banking systems
• Intercompany netting, processing settlement bookings and IC reconciliation
• Filing of all records so that they can be accessed in a timely manner
• Reporting weekly cash flow

Your Experience Should Be...

• University or college degree
• Financial background
• Fluent English
• Experience in accounting
• MS office - Excel
• Preferable ERP system knowledge

Our Benefits Package...

Howden provides a competitive and expansive benefits package that ensures not only do you perform on an optimum level, but also balance your private and professional responsibilities in a friendly and modern environment.

Health and Quality of Life benefits:

• Competitive salary and a generous cafeteria bonus
• Private Medical Insurance package with Medicover.
• Life Assurance package with NN Group Life
• Home office allowance, extra holidays, employee recognition initiatives, well-being initiatives and team buildings

Development Opportunities:

• Constant learning opportunities and challenges that help our employees grow
• Vertical and horizontal organizational movement
• Semester-based language course
• Professional practice and free e-learning opportunities

Flexible and supportive working environment:

Our new and modern office is in the heart of Budapest at the corporate centre in Corvin Negyed behind the Corvin plaza: Budapest, Bókay János u. 44, 1083

• Hybrid schedule (3 days at home, 2 days at the office)
• Non-binding working hours
• Commuting allowance for those residing outside of Budapest
• Showering facilities for cyclists and sportspeople
• Workplace extras to facilitate working at the office: free coffee and different beverages, fruit day, a social corner
• State-of-the-art technology and IT equipment: laptop, headset, workstation, 2 monitors per employee, Windows and O365 software
• Accommodation for special needs and those with a physical disability
• Global diverse community where people can support and learn from each other, celebrate successes and have fun in team buildings and programs.
• Opportunity to be involved in our ESG “Bright Future” initiatives