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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 local GAAP and IFRS ledgers, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Manage fixed asset accounting, including reconciliations, inventories, and alignment of accounting treatment under local GAAP and IFRS.
• Support intercompany accounting activities, including reconciliations, settlements, netting, and transfer pricing compliance.
• Coordinate IFRS 16 lease accounting, reconciliations, and ongoing lease compliance requirements.
• Ensure timely and accurate month-end close activities, reporting, and trial balance integrity.
• Support treasury operations, including cash flow monitoring, payment processes, and liquidity risk identification.
• Review and validate bank transactions, ensuring completeness and accuracy of financial postings.
• Act as a key contact for external and internal audits, providing documentation, evidence, and supporting controls compliance.
• Support statutory and group financial reporting, including annual financial statements and reconciliation between local and IFRS reporting.
• Collaborate with GBS, Controlling, Tax, and Finance stakeholders to improve processes, ensure policy compliance, and resolve accounting issues.
• 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 Hungarian e-compliance requirements: real time invoicing etc.
• Fluency in Hungarian and English (written and spoken).
• 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.