French Speaking Senior Payment Accountant

(Transition)

Our multinational partner company is looking for a French speaking Payment Transactions Accountant candidate for its exciting Transition Project from France.

Why it is a good opportunity for you:

• Working in a successful organization
• Hybrid working: 3 days home office and 2 days office
• Health & Safety: highest standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities (Medicover package)
• OTP Szép Card: Gross 39.000 HUF / month and annual bonus
• Pension: they have various financial models to give you individual support
• Training and education programs to help you develop professionally and personally

Job summary:

• Be involved in the transition of accounting processes from European entities to Hungary and actively shape a new SCE in Budapest
• Prepare, validate and regularly update Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Desktop Procedure
• Be involved in day-to-day operations and participate in the periodical closing processes
• Participate in projects assigned to the role (incl. Process optimization)
• Support in defining main KPI’s and the delivery model of Shared Service Center (SSC).
• Be adherent to agreed service levels, policies and procedures.
• Determine, evaluate and resolve issues,
• Identify and work on process improvements
• Engage in collaboration with the business and stakeholders to develop a professional relationship
• Be the ambassador of our organization towards our Suppliers
• Active role during internal and external audits.
• Provide qualitative customer service
• Ensure that all process manuals/relevant work instructions are created and updated on a regular basis
• Coach and train junior team members, conduct onboarding training
• Support Senior and Team Lead colleagues in reaching the team's performance against deliverables set in the SLAs
• Support Team Lead in a cross functional collaboration.

Requirements:

• College or University degree (preferably in Economics or Finance with major in accounting or equivalent qualification)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in accounting (primarily PT in an SSC environment)
• Transition experience is beneficial
• Very good understanding of the AP processes
• Continuous Improvement and Quality (CI&Q) mindset
• Strong customer orientation
• Strong English and French language skills (ideally Hungarian skills as well)
• Very good knowledge of SAP FI or other ERP system
• Enthusiasm for establishing and ramping up a new Shared Service Center
• Ability/willingness to travel (2 to 6 weeks periods for knowledge transfer- when circumstances allow to do so)
• Self-starting attitude and ability to work independently
• Strong team-player
• Ability to pay close attention to detail and prioritize the right things at the right time
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-starting attitude and ability to work independently
• SME, E2E approach, finance knowledge, taking the ownership, root cause identification & analyzing, creating / owning action plan, driving process improvement, open to give / receive feedback