Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Job title: Financial Controlling Lead Analyst

Location: Budapest

Contract: permanent

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the Function

The Finance department delivers balanced growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organization, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilizing our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the team

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 interprets fiscal and regulatory data. It coordinates and manages financial and compliance reporting. It also manages the P&L and balance sheet to deliver solutions that 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.

About the role

Purpose of Role

• Ensure smooth and accurate month-end closing, the timely and accurate submission of financial and statutory reports
• Give technical accounting support within their own dirigoro the FC team
• Partner with the RTR team to ensure the information in the legal entity financial documents 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

• 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

• 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