Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About the Function

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilising 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 role

The senior accountant role is helping the Statutory Team to make compliant (internally and externally) all the Hungarian entities, especially the Budapest office.

The team prepares monthly IFRS management accounts through SAP and reports in BFC for group consolidation and support the annual financial statement preparation as per HUN GAAP.

Main accounting areas are: fixed assets, creditors, accruals, intercompany, local and other taxes.

Role Responsibilities

• Perform month end close including journal entry preparation, and supporting the reconciliation
• Prepare review on management reports at monthly basis
• Prepare financial & statutory reports
• Support statutory financial statements under relevant local GAAP in quality and on time
• Produce analytical review of management reports to provide relevant explanation of the entity's activities and performance during the year.
• Be in contact with statutory auditors and service providers

What you'll bring

• Degree educated in relevant finance / accounting/ business area
• Qualified accountant
• 4-5 years proven experience in finance / accounting
• Strong Financial Controlling knowledge (Balance sheet, Group and Local Financial Reporting, Accounting principles)
• Fluent Hungarian knowledge
• Fluent English knowledge
• Understanding of Hungarian Accounting Law
• International qualification (IFRS) is an advantage
• Interest in Taxation is an advantage.

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

We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

• 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, after work 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.

Client-provided location(s): Budapest, Hungary

Job ID: Diageo-JR1121287

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-20T18:58:17