Job Summary
Looking for a role where you can drive financial excellence, influence key business decisions, and make an impact across a global organization?
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Global Business Services: Delivering streamlined, scalable support—enhancing efficiency, compliance and service excellence across the company
The role is based in Budapest, Hungary (hybrid role). Be part of an experienced, collaborative, and solution-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Prepare and post journal entries across assigned entities while ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
- Ensure proper accounting treatment of transactions in accordance with US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).
- Prepare and review accruals and provisions, including expenses, incentives, and other relevant financial items.
- Reconcile balance sheet and profit and loss accounts, investigate variances, and drive resolution of issues.
- Perform financial reporting and analysis to support month-end close activities and business decision-making.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes across the assigned scope.
- Maintain documentation and ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements and internal controls.
- Collaborate with Finance, Controlling, Tax, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and audit teams to support financial operations.
- Identify and drive process improvements, standardization, and automation opportunities to enhance efficiency and data quality.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Minimum 4–5 years of relevant accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and general accounting principles.
- Solid understanding of month-end close activities and balance sheet reconciliations.
- University degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial reporting capabilities.
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills.
- High attention to detail with a strong control and compliance mindset.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience working with SAP or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
- Experience within a multinational company or shared service environment.
- Proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and process optimization.
Why Choose Us?
- Hybrid working model with home office flexibility.
- Professional onboarding and support from an experienced global team.
- Opportunities to work with international stakeholders across EAME.
- Learning and development programs that support career growth.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including cafeteria and health insurance.
- Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on innovation, growth, and continuous improvement.
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Skills Required
- 4-5 years of relevant accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP
- Experience with month-end close activities and balance sheet reconciliations
- University degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements and internal controls
- Excellent English communication skills, written and verbal
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial reporting capabilities
- Effective stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with SAP or other ERP systems
- Experience within a multinational company or shared services environment
- Proactive mindset with continuous improvement and process optimization experience
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
