General Ledger Team Leader

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. The company has been established in 1912 and employs about 20 000 people at 47 locations in 22 countries. In Hungary, KOSTAL is about to build its first business service centre to provide business support in IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales and HR fields. This will be a global centre with high value-added and complex processes.

Overall Purpose of Job:

This role is key to deliver a complete and accurate financial statement for all the in scope KOSTAL entities. Understand the connections between financial processes and their impact to the financial statement. Have a good understanding of each financial statement key sections to be able to identify anomalies, or inconsistencies.

• Main tasks, roles and responsibilities:
• Involved in the transition of General Ledger accounting processes from various KOSTAL entities to KBS
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of accounting data, including additional analysis, schedules and research
• Ensure and perform local statutory accounting for the legal entities in compliance with the respective local GAAP, including preparation of statutory financial reports
• Ensure a reporting package for the group consolidation in accordance with German GAAP
• Lead a team of Accountants and supervise team delivery of month-end closings, general ledger account analysis and reconciliations as well as asset ledger analysis
• Contribute to preparation and review of management reports and financial information analysis on monthly, quarterly and annual basis
• Manage ongoing operations of the team. Plan and monitor the capacity and workload of the team, hire additional team members according to anticipated workload
• Coordination and controlling of the knowledge transfer and ensuring seamless post go-live stabilization of finance processes in scope
• Contribute to define a closing schedule to speed up closing procedures, in close alignment with the Global Process Head/ Finance Head
• Lead by example a cross-functional collaboration, create a motivating working atmosphere and actively drive the change management
• Coach and motivate team members
• Participate and lead projects assigned to the role (incl. Process optimization)
• Identify, evaluate and resolve issues (incl. process improvements)
• Adherent to agreed service levels, policies and procedures
• Contribute in defining and implementing internal controls; be responsible of regular execution
• Interact with external auditors
• Engage in collaboration with the business and stakeholders to develop a professional relationship
• Provide qualitative customer service; establish KPI’s to track GL
• Performance in close alignment with the Global Process Head for GL

Experiences and requirements:

Education:

• University or college degree in Economics or Finance
• Accounting degree, also the Hungarian
• National accounting certificate is an advantage

Work experiences – time/seniority/ sector:

• At least 5 -10 years of experience in Accounting (end-to-end GL)
• At least 2-5 years of leaderships experience

Technical/ IT knowledge:

• Complete familiarity with SAP Fi Module
• Good knowlege pf Microsoft Office or equivalent tools

Language – with level:

• Fluent in English

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Enjoy being a people leader, ability to build a good team work within the G/L organization
• Willing to take on more responsibility
• Energetic and communicative
• Able to flag issues on time, and propose solution if possible
• Able to pay close attention to detail and prioritize the right things at the right time
• Able to summarize complex matters in a right to the point manner, and provide possible solutions for the senior leaders
• Able to prioritize and work under time pressure
• Confident to speak up

• Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance
• Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
• Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
• Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
• You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative