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Givaudan is the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. In close collaboration with food, beverage, consumer product and fragrance partners, Givaudan develops tastes and scents that delight consumers the world over. With a passion to understand consumers’ preferences and a relentless drive to innovate, Givaudan is at the forefront of creating flavours and fragrances that ‘engage your senses’. The Company achieved sales of CHF 5.1 billion in 2017. Headquartered in Switzerland with local presence in over 100 locations, the company has more than 11,100 employees worldwide. Givaudan invites you to discover more at www.givaudan.com.

Controlling-Reporting Manager (Temporary Contract - 2 years)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Controlling-Reporting Manager - Your future position?

As a Controlling-Rerporting Manager in our Budapest site you will lead a 8-10 heads team responsible for cost accounting, GL accounting and reporting activities, while you will also make sure of the accuracy of the financial statements in accordance with legal and statutory requirements, as well as Givaudan accounting and reporting policies and procedures

Main responsibilities:

Supporting and coordinating: coordinating the closing activities based on corporate guidelines, while also be supporting and monitoring the team with regards to the following tasks: accurate and timely UPI, GAC reporting; maintenance of the Product Cost workflow items in SAP according to the SLA; recording of Production Cost and Cost of Good Sold, including period end closing and variance analysis; booking of journal entries, clear GL accounts including accruals, revaluation; inventory control and valuation; reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts. Define specific controls and procedures for the Co&Re processes. Executes quality check activities to ensure consistency of managed data for assigned regional Givaudan companies, e.g.: group structure changes properly reflected, check for major deviations. Decision on reopening/adjustment of reporting packages.

Leading: leading and coaching the team members, while you also plan and monitor the workload of the team. Be responsible for goal setting and performance management processes. Monitor the team’s performance against deliverables set in the Service Levels Agreements (SLAs) and against the Corporate standards. Manage and develop the employees to continuously provide high quality services to the recipients

Participating: analyse Controlling/Reporting activities, make proposals to improve and standardise the processes the day-to-day activities and Month-End Closing. Participate and coordinate audits and projects, while you will also be working closely and effectively with all business partners involved in respective processes. Coordinates preparation of business cases for process and / or SAP improvements (point of contact for the IT project). Collects and evaluates KPIs (both quality KPIs and for internal steering) and analyzes these KPIs to unveil further improvement potential taking into account benchmarking activities

Your professional profile includes:

University degree in Business Administration with majors in accounting / controlling or equivalent education
Fluent English level
8+ years of professional experience in a finance, controlling department
Management experience
Microsoft Office literacy
Comprehensive SAP FI/CO skills

Our benefits for you:

Flexible Working Arrangements (1-2 days office days per week)
Private Health Insurance
Monthly cafeteria plan
Unilever shop discount
Travel reimbursement when commuting from out of Budapest urban area
Access to exclusive perfumes and other employee discounts
Recognition and referral programs
Career development opportunities in our multinational environment
Team buildings and company events
Learning programs to develop your soft and hard skills
Free coffee and tea in our equipped kitchen

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

Remote working: Hybrid

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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