An American multinational chemical company is looking for a Senior Accountant colleague for their accounting team, who will supervise the RTR team functions executed in accordance with the Group Policies, local and US GAAP requirements, agreed service level agreements, and key performance indicators.
The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of accounting experience, and fluent English and Hungarian knowledge.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation package with cafeteria benefits
- Professional improvement possibilities
- Possibility of working from home, 3 days/week
- Team building programs
- Language training and professional training
Your tasks will be as a Senior Accountant:
- Lead, manage, and motivate a team of high-performance accounting professionals
- Full overview of the Month End Closing, review of reporting packages and ensure deadlines are met
- Approval of SOX controls
- Approval of balance sheet reconciliations in Blackline
- Approval of monthly and quarterly variances interacting with different departments as needed (PTP, OTC, FP&A…)
- Escalation and resolution of issues
- Manage relationship with auditors (agreement on calendars, managing to get the engagement letters signed, point of escalation)
- Ensure Financial statements are presented on time
- Team management (holidays, performance reviews, backup organization, recurrent 1 to 1, interviews)
- Design people development plans
- Take ownership on special projects assigned on top of the daily activities
- Responding to a significant number of ad hoc queries, and analysis as required, prioritizing work effectively to ensure that these queries are responded to on a timely basis
- Role may require some travel at times and work on some weekends/public holidays during month/year-end periods
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance
- Over 5+ years of Accounting/Finance experience required
- Experience leading a team
- Advanced Excel skills with experience in building and working with complex models and large data sets.
- Experience with SAP (JDE and HFM is a plus).
- Leading accounting role in FSS in a large, listed, multinational company is desirable
- US GAAP and SOX experience
