Financial & Statutory Reporting Accountant (m/f/x) - Hungary

Permanent / Fulltime

Location: Budapest, Hungary

The Opportunity:

This role sits within the Accounting Operations – Account to Report team in the Centre of Excellence. As Senior Reporting Accountant, you will be responsible for executing and coordinating accounting and close activities for a cluster of countries, ensuring delivery in line with group policies, governance requirements, and reporting timelines.

You will play a key role in supporting both management and statutory reporting, working closely with local accounting teams and wider finance functions to ensure compliant, accurate, and efficient close processes. The role also involves identifying and escalating complex or non-routine accounting matters.

Main Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Coordinate and deliver assigned accounting and close activities in line with close calendars, company policies, and local statutory requirements
• Prepare standard journals, perform balance sheet reconciliations, and review business journals, escalating non-standard items as required
• Manage local electronic interfaces (where applicable), including oversight of invoice flows, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Drive implementation and ongoing execution of the internal financial controls framework
• Support internal audits and ensure timely implementation of remediation actions
• Coordinate external audits at entity level, including documentation provision, tracking of requests, and escalation of key issues
• Apply technical accounting expertise to support reporting and close activities, ensuring appropriate judgement and escalation where needed
• Execute month-end close activities, including ERP reconciliations and variance analysis, ensuring risks and delays are flagged early
• Ensure compliance with local financial regulations, tax laws, and company policies
• Collaborate with other accounting operations teams (AP, Tax, Treasury) to support compliance and operational efficiency
• Identify and recommend process improvements and control enhancements based on close and operational insights
• Support balance sheet planning in collaboration with FP&A and business partners, including submissions to group consolidation systems

Your Qualifications & Experience

• Professional certification in Finance or Accounting (e.g. IFRS and local GAAP accreditation)
• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in controllership, financial reporting, or audit
• Strong experience in financial statement preparation and ownership
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel
• Experience with financial systems such as SAP

Competencies

This role requires several important behavioral competencies to be successful:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders
• Ability to work through ambiguity and solve complex issues
• Effective decision-making and prioritization skills
• Results-driven with a proactive approach
• Sound judgement and ability to escalate within defined governance frameworks
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work cross-functionally within Finance

What we offer

• Join a global leader in biotechnology with a strong ethical foundation.
• Opportunities for professional development and international exposure.
• Collaborative team culture with supportive leadership.
• Be part of a company that values innovation, responsibility, and care.

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

 

Our Benefits

For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.

 

You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

 

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.