Financial Reporting Specialist
Currently, we are looking for a Financial Reporting Specialist for Financial Reporting & Operations (FR&O). Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then join our FR&O team at Aegon Corporate Center!
Description department
The department Financial Reporting & Operations is part of Corporate Financial Center. The primary objective of Corporate Financial Center is to provide Aegon’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors with meaningful financial information (e.g. capital, P&L, balance sheet etc.) to support the board’s decision-making process and deliver legally required reporting.
Results
Within this role your first focus will be financial reporting. Activities include:
- Financial Reporting – Assisting in the Aegon Group financial reporting process including developing reports. Ensure timely, accurate and complete financial and non-financial reporting, in line with relevant regulations and guidelines (e.g. IFRS, SOX, SEC).
- Systems – Maintain adequate Group financial system Tagetik and drive one-time right reporting.
- Quality assurance - Assure data integrity and provide high quality information/reports (such as reports, tables, etc.). Perform tick & tie procedures ensuring external financial reporting and management information are error free.
- Efficiencies and improvements – Support maintaining and developing Aegon’s finance operations processes including driving further efficiencies and quality improvements in these processes. Strive for full automation of Aegon’s financial reporting processes and eliminate manual or end-user computing driven workaround where possible.
- Support - Provide support to business units and other departments by help setting up the requirements, test reporting changes and assist during the periodic closing in order to enhance the quality and compliance of financial reporting.
- Instructions - Work actively with Aegon’s business units to ensure that the financial reporting meets Aegon’s requirements. This includes assisting in the preparation of reporting instructions to business units regarding reporting requirements and timelines.
- External audit - Work closely with the external independent group audit team. This includes providing relevant financial information and documentation to support the audit procedures.
Know-how
- Master’s degree in Finance / Business administration / IT / Economics or equivalent
- Minimum 6 years of financial analysis/reporting experience incl. in IFRS and/or Solvency
- Advanced understanding of a broad range of tools and technologies, analytics and financial analyses.
- Expertise geared towards Financial Reporting Processes (e.g. Tagetik, SAP etc.)
- Advanced data analysis skills (i.e., Excel, PowerBi)
- Strong communication skills (written and spoken English)
Candidate traits
- Team player with strong commitment and sense of responsibility and proactiveness
- Adaptive to changing environment, including working with different stakeholders and multiple tasks over time
- Self-assured, curious and independent problem solver but able to escalate issues adequately
- Accurate and detail-oriented worker and able to work within tight deadlines
What we offer
- Highly competitive annual pay
- A good work/life balance including annual leave and statutory holidays in accordance to the Hungarian labor regulations
- A hybrid working model
- Pension and medical plan
- Yearly training budget, plus a large pool of inhouse trainings to choose from
- Complex people programs to support your individual and team development
- An opportunity to work with international offices and businesses, while being based in Budapest
- And last, but not least: fun and energetic, on the ground and global team 😊
Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in The Hague, 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. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via a strategic shareholding in a market leading insurance and pensions company.
