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City: Budapest

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Finance

Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt.

With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter.

From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About the role

The role sits within the Accounting team and is responsible for ensuring accounting continuity, statutory and group compliance, reconciliations and data integrity. The Accountant acts as key resource to support finance execution working closely with the Chief Accountant, FC HU, FC SEE, Finance Project Manager, Tax, Legal, and GBS/IBM teams.

The role is limited until November 2027.

Your responsibilities

Prepare and post journal entries in both the statutory (local GAAP) and group (IFRS) ledgers.
Support accounting activities related to fixed assets, intercompany balances, provisions, and maintain trial balance integrity across both ledgers.
Coordinate reconciliations and ensure accurate IFRS 16 accounting and lease-related entries. Review leases and maintain compliance with accounting requirements.
Support audit activities and ensure accurate and timely month-end reporting in the ICO (Intercompany) and R2R reporting areas.
Manage fixed asset accounting and support execution of physical fixed asset inventory processes in line with local regulations, internal frameworks, and group policy.
Align with the Chief Accountant and Finance Controller to ensure the appropriate accounting treatment of fixed assets under local GAAP and IFRS.
Monitor and support intercompany accounting processes (goods, services, recharges) for affiliated parties across Hungary.
Support execution of intercompany netting, compensation, and settlement processes, coordinating with Tax to ensure correct transfer pricing and VAT treatment.
Reconcile affiliated party balances at month-end and coordinate resolution of outstanding items with counterpart entities.
Collaborate with Treasury, the Chief Accountant, and Finance Controller to manage treasury-related activities, monitor cash flows, and support payment processes in line with group requirements.
Review and validate bank statement entries, ensuring completeness and accuracy of postings.
Monitor cash flow developments and proactively highlight potential liquidity risks to relevant finance stakeholders.
Support preparation of documentation and accounting inputs required for annual statutory financial statements.
Act as a finance contact for external auditors, coordinating the collection and submission of audit evidence at company level.
Support internal audit activities and contribute to the annual RFCF (Reckitt Finance Controls Framework) process for the R2R scope.
Support transfer pricing documentation activities and ensure intercompany transactions are properly reflected and documented.
Support reconciliation between local statutory reporting and group IFRS reporting, ensuring consistency of accounting treatments across both ledgers.
Support calculation and execution of annual buy-sell model adjustments, including true-up and true-down processes with counterpart entities.
Maintain close collaboration with GBS teams to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting entries processed offshore.
Monitor BCOP entries for compliance with group policy and collaborate with Commercial Controlling to resolve reconciliation issues and improve processes

The experience we're looking for

Minimum 4–6 years of experience in accounting/R2R, preferably within a multinational or FMCG/Pharma environment.

Good knowledge of Hungarian statutory accounting and IFRS.

Hands-on experience with fixed assets, intercompany reconciliations, and month-end close processes.

Familiarity with Hunagrian e-compliance requirements: real time invoicing etc.

Experience working with ERP systems (SAP preferred) and group reporting tools.

Fluency in Hungarian and English (written and spoken).

Accounting membership or progress towards qualification is an advantage.

Prior exposure to legal entity merger or restructuring projects (accounting workstream) it is an advantage.

Experience with transfer pricing documentation and intercompany governance.

Familiarity with GBS/shared services operating models and IBM or similar BPO environments.

The skills for success

Project management, Financial systems, Improve business processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Stakeholder engagement and influence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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