Senior Finance Manager

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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.

We’re looking for a Senior Finance Manager to take end-to-end ownership of finance and controllership activities for our Hungarian legal entity, while contributing to group-wide finance initiatives.

This role sits within the Controllership team and reports to the Group Financial Controller, who oversees the wider group structure (UK and Hungary). You’ll be the senior finance lead in Hungary, ensuring robust BAU delivery while driving process improvements and supporting the evolution of the local finance function as the business scales.

• Entity ownership & controllership

  • Take full ownership of accounting operations, financial controls, and statutory compliance for the Hungarian legal entity

  • Ensure timely and accurate month-end close, balance sheet integrity, and high-quality financial reporting

  • Own the integrity of general accounting activities across AP, AR, GL, payroll, and taxes

  • Act as the local finance SME on Hungarian accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements

• Statutory, tax & external partners

  • Own all local statutory filings and regulatory returns

  • Manage relationships with external advisors

  • Lead the transition of selected outsourced activities in-house

  • Coordinate transfer pricing matters

• Leadership & collaboration

  • Lead and develop the local accounting team in Hungary

  • Act as the primary finance point of contact for Hungarian stakeholders

  • Partner closely with the UK-based finance team

• Process improvement & transformation

  • Drive process improvements across accounting operations and systems

  • Support finance transformation initiatives

• Planning & wider finance support

  • Support budgeting and forecasting

  • Lead local audit processes

  • Deliver ad-hoc finance projects

• Experience & technical capability

  • 7+ years’ experience in accounting or finance

  • Registered certified accountant qualification (Hungary) – required

  • Strong knowledge of Hungarian GAAP and local tax regulations

  • ERP experience (NetSuite is a plus)

  • Strong Excel skills

  • Financial services experience is an advantage

  • Strong English language skills

• Flexi-office working – Spend 2 days a week with your team in our Budapest office. The rest is up to you! 🏠 Plus you have 4 weeks of Work From Anywhere to use, with no need to come to the office.

• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance 🌟

• 4-week fully paid sabbatical after being with us for 4 years 🌍

• 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 💚

• SZÉP card - Budget to spend on meals, leisure and accommodation 🏝

• Medicover Blue Package - An exclusive pass to top-notch healthcare services 🩺

We are not in a position to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

We break it up into 4 stages:

• Initial call with a member from our Talent Team (30 mins)

• Past Experience interview with a member of the Finance team (60 mins)

• Task-based interview with the hiring manager (60 mins)

• Culture interview (60 mins)

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and trustworthy environment, we’ll carry out standard background checks, including a DBS and a Cifas check. These help ensure there are no ongoing criminal proceedings and support the prevention of fraud and other forms of serious misconduct. If anything of concern is identified, it may affect your eligibility for certain roles or services. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!

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