Financial Reporting Specialist

Do you want to continue your finance career in an exciting and changing international environment? Join our Financial Reporting team at the Aegon Budapest office

Your challenge
The Financial Reporting Specialist is an experienced professional, reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting. On a day-to-day basis the Financial Reporting Specialist works on producing specific deliverables in the financial and non-financial reporting space. The Financial Reporting Specialist is accountable and responsible for gathering, consolidating, reviewing, and reporting financial and non-financial information for Aegon International region, including preparation of the reports, in a controlled manner. The Financial Reporting Specialist is also responsible for performing a technical analysis on the numbers reported by the business units belonging to International region (Spain & Portugal, Brazil, China and Asia Pacific). Also, the Financial Reporting Specialist participates in the annual budget preparation process, as well as provides financial expert input to various finance projects.

Your team
The department Financial Reporting is part of Aegon International, reporting to the CFO of Aegon International. The purpose of Financial Reporting is to provide Aegon Management as well as Aegon's Corporate Financial Centre with reliable, transparent and compliant financial and non-financial information, such as IFRS, Capital and MCVNB information, to support decision making process and the delivery on legally required reporting.

The department, comprised of highly engaged and motivated people, is working closely with other functions of Aegon International, like Actuaries, and also with Aegon's Corporate Financial Centre. In addition, Financial Reporting department also works closely together with the business units of International region to ensure timely and high-quality information.

Qualifications And Skills

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or equivalent,
• Minimum 8-10 years work experience in an international financial consolidation and reporting environment or BIG4 financial services,
• Experience gained in insurance industry in financial area,
• IFRS knowledge,
• US GAAP is a plus,
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Financial Reporting Solutions (e.g., Tagetik, SAP, Oracle, etc.),
• Strong analytical, people and organizational skills,
• Strong communication skills (written and spoken English).

Candidate traits

• You love working with numbers and systems,
• Adaptive to changing environment including working with different stakeholders and multiple tasks,
• Team player with strong commitment and sense of responsibility and proactiveness,
• Curious and independent problem solver but able to escalate issues adequately,
• Strong analytical skills, self-assured, good communication skills, self-starter,
• Accurate and detail-oriented worker and able to work within tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting – Responsible for timely, accurate, complete and compliant Aegon financial reporting such as IFRS and Capital numbers, as well as for analyzing the results,
• Data quality - Provide and assure high quality/data integrity of all information/reports,
• Process improvement – continuously improve effectiveness and efficiency of the financial reporting processes,
• Project support – Participate in various finance projects and provide professional expertise and support.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health package
• Cafeteria
• All You Can Move card
• A brand-new office at an excellent location
• Hybrid working
• Opportunities for growth and advancement - A large pool of in-house training to choose from.
• An opportunity to work with international offices and businesses, while being based in Budapest,
• And last, but not least: fun and an energetic, on the ground and global team

Aegon Ltd is an international financial service holding company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, which goal runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China and an Asset Management organization with locations in UK, US, NL and Hungary.

Aegon Ltd has more than 300 employees in its team in Budapest, among them a fast-growing international actuarial team, with new teams and roles added continually.