Finance Accountant

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Move our mission, and your career, forward.

The Finance Team At Marshmallow, we’re building a financial services company designed for the future — inclusive, data-driven, and fast growing. The Finance team plays a critical role in enabling that growth by ensuring strong financial control, trusted data, and scalable processes that support decision-making across the business.

The Role We are looking for a Finance Accountant to support day-to-day accounting activities for our Hungarian entity. In this role, your focus will be to apply your technical expertise to deliver high-quality financial operations while taking the initiative to work on clearly defined projects and make independent decisions on how to best execute your tasks.

This role sits within the Controllership team and reports to the Senior Finance Manager in Hungary. You will be part of a hard-working, supportive, and collaborative finance team, working closely with various departments across the organization to gain exposure to multiple aspects of financial accounting.

What You’ll Be Doing

Core Accounting & Month-End

• Manage Financial Operations: Own supplier/customer invoice processing (NAV compliance), bank reconciliations, fixed assets, and employee expenses.
• Independent Month-End: Play a key role in closing the books by preparing journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations independently.
• Technical Accuracy: Ensure the integrity of financial data in our ERP systems and support external audits.

Stakeholder Management & Commercial Insight

• Business Partnering: Build relationships with internal stakeholders to provide financial support and communicate complex information clearly to non-finance teams.
• Commercial Growth: Understand Marshmallow’s KPIs and value drivers, ensuring your work contributes to our annual growth goals.

Projects & Process Improvement

• Automation & AI: Proactively identify opportunities to improve controls and efficiency using automation and AI tools.
• Project Ownership: Independently support project workstreams, including transitioning outsourced activities in-house.

Who You Are

• Experience: 3+ years in accounting or finance with a relevant Bachelor’s degree.
• Local Expertise: Strong knowledge of Hungarian GAAP and local tax regulations (VAT, CIT, INNOV, Local business tax).
• Technical Skills: Advanced Excel skills and ERP experience (NetSuite is a plus); ability to solve complex finance requests through data analysis.
• Communication: Strong English language skills with the ability to interpret and share financial insights.
• Industry: Experience in financial services or insurance is an advantage.

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend 2 days a week with your team in our Budapest office. The rest is up to you! 🏠
• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset 🤓
• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva 💚
• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance 🌟
• SZÉP card - Budget to spend on meals, leisure and accommodation 🏝
• Sabbatical Leave - Get a 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years 🌴
• Work From Anywhere - 4 weeks work from anywhere to use, with no need to come to the office ✈️
• Medicare Blue package - An exclusive pass to top-notch healthcare services

Plus team social budget, office tea, coffee, and snacks!

OUR PROCESS

We break it up into 3 stages

• Initial call with a member of our Talent Acquisition team (30 mins)
• A technical interview delving into the technical aspects of the role (60 mins)
• A culture interview to check that your work style fits our processes and values (60 mins)

Please note we are not in a position to offer sponsorship and/or a visa for this position.

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EVERYONE BELONGS AT MARSHMALLOW

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.

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