Senior Financial Accountant - Fixed Asset Focus
Posted on: December 23, 2025 | JOB ID: 202511-130642
Company Name: Roche.com
Contract Duration: Fixed-Term Until (28 February 2029)
Reports to: Country Chief Accountant
Division: Finance & Accounting | Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Budapest, Pest, Hungary (On-Site)
Schedule: Hybrid (2 days Office) | Experience Level: (02-04) years
About Roche: Building a Healthier Future
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About the Record to Report (R2R) Department
The Record to Report (R2R) Department is a global organization of over 650 experienced finance professionals working together to deliver financial services and solutions for Roche across the EMEA region. Our comprehensive services cover financial management, period-end closing, capital and lease accounting, credit and receivables, manufacturing finance, and divisional reporting.
We ensure compliance for 263 reporting entities in 96 countries with international accounting standards (IFRS, GAAP) and provide assurance of financial integrity across Roche's operations. As part of this dynamic team, you'll contribute to maintaining the highest standards of financial accuracy and regulatory compliance while supporting Roche's mission to improve global healthcare outcomes.
The Position: Senior Financial Accountant - Fixed Asset Focus
Important Note: This role offers a fixed-term contract extending until February 28, 2029.
We are seeking a detail-oriented and technically proficient Senior Financial Accountant specialising in Fixed Assets to join our Budapest-based R2R team. This critical role focuses on managing the complete lifecycle of fixed asset accounting, capital expenditure (CAPEX) tracking, and lease accounting while ensuring full compliance with international financial reporting standards.
As a Senior Financial Accountant with fixed asset specialisation, you will perform day-to-day and period-end closing activities according to predefined deadlines with full ownership of your tasks and in strict compliance with process documentation governing fixed asset accounting. Your expertise in fixed asset management, CAPEX accounting, and lease accounting under IFRS 16 will be instrumental in maintaining accurate financial records and supporting strategic business decisions.
This position offers the unique opportunity to work within a global finance organisation while maintaining close collaboration with local country finance teams. You'll closely align on priorities with the Country Chief Accountant, propose innovative process and system improvements, and contribute to the continuous enhancement of our financial operations. Your role bridges technical accounting expertise with collaborative teamwork, requiring both independent ownership and effective cross-functional partnership.
Based in Budapest with a flexible hybrid work model averaging two office days per week, this position provides an excellent balance between collaborative in-person work and productive remote flexibility. You'll be part of a diverse, inclusive team that values personal expression and professional growth while delivering world-class financial services to a global healthcare leader.
Core Responsibilities
Fixed Asset and CAPEX Accounting Management
At the heart of this role lies comprehensive management of fixed asset accounting operations. You'll maintain accurate fixed asset registers, tracking assets from acquisition through disposal, ensuring proper capitalization thresholds and classification, calculating and posting depreciation using appropriate methods, managing asset transfers between cost centers and locations, and processing asset retirements and disposals with proper gain/loss recognition.
Your CAPEX accounting responsibilities include monitoring and tracking capital expenditure projects from initiation to completion, reviewing capital project budgets and actual spend, ensuring proper capitalization of qualifying costs, coordinating with project managers on asset readiness dates, facilitating timely asset transfers from construction-in-progress to operational assets, and providing CAPEX reporting and analysis to support business decisions.
Working with the SAP Fixed Assets (FA) module or equivalent enterprise systems, you'll configure asset master data accurately, execute mass asset transactions efficiently, generate fixed asset reports for internal and external stakeholders, perform system reconciliations to ensure data integrity, and troubleshoot system issues in collaboration with IT teams.
Lease Accounting and IFRS 16 Compliance
Managing leased asset accounting under IFRS 16 represents a crucial responsibility requiring deep technical knowledge. You'll identify and evaluate lease contracts to determine accounting treatment, calculate right-of-use assets and lease liabilities using appropriate discount rates, record initial lease recognition entries and ongoing remeasurement adjustments, maintain comprehensive lease schedules tracking all lease obligations, perform lease modifications and reassessments as circumstances change, and ensure full compliance with IFRS 16 disclosure requirements.
Your lease accounting work includes coordinating with legal and procurement teams to obtain lease documentation, analyzing lease terms to identify embedded leases and variable payments, calculating incremental borrowing rates for lease liability measurement, reconciling lease accounting balances to supporting documentation, and preparing lease-related notes for financial statement disclosures.
Staying current with evolving lease accounting guidance ensures your technical knowledge remains sharp. You'll monitor IFRS Interpretations Committee decisions affecting lease accounting, attend training on lease accounting updates and best practices, participate in internal working groups addressing complex lease scenarios, and share knowledge with colleagues to build team capabilities.
Period-End Closing and Financial Reporting
Executing accurate and timely period-end closing activities according to established deadlines ensures financial statements meet quality standards. Your closing responsibilities include posting depreciation and amortization entries, recording asset acquisitions and disposals, reconciling fixed asset subledgers to general ledger, preparing consolidation reporting packages, analyzing variances and investigating anomalies, and supporting month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
Consolidation reporting activities you'll perform include preparing fixed asset rollforward schedules showing opening balances, additions, disposals, depreciation, and closing balances, completing standardized reporting templates for group consolidation, ensuring elimination entries are properly documented and posted, providing commentary on significant fixed asset movements, and meeting strict reporting deadlines to support consolidated financial statement preparation.
Your analytical skills will be essential in identifying trends and unusual items, investigating discrepancies and resolving issues, preparing variance explanations for management review, conducting asset impairment assessments when indicators exist, and recommending corrective actions for process improvements.
System Reconciliations and Data Integrity
Maintaining accurate system reconciliations ensures the integrity of fixed asset data across multiple systems. You'll reconcile fixed asset subledgers to general ledger balances, verify inventory management system data against asset records, confirm project system capitalizations match asset register additions, cross-check depreciation calculations between systems, and document reconciliation results with supporting evidence.
Your reconciliation work identifies and resolves discrepancies promptly, investigates root causes of data inconsistencies, implements control procedures to prevent recurrence, maintains detailed reconciliation workpapers for audit trails, and reports significant reconciling items to management.
Data quality initiatives you'll drive include performing regular data cleansing exercises to maintain accurate master data, identifying and correcting duplicate or obsolete asset records, standardizing asset descriptions and classifications, validating cost center assignments and locations, and implementing data quality metrics and monitoring dashboards.
Audit Preparation and Support
Preparing for and participating in internal and external audits represents a critical responsibility. You'll gather supporting documentation for fixed asset balances and transactions, prepare audit schedules and lead sheets as requested, respond to auditor inquiries with clear explanations and evidence, facilitate auditor testing by providing requested samples, address audit findings and implement remediation plans, and maintain organized documentation that facilitates efficient audits.
Your audit support includes understanding audit risk areas related to fixed assets, preparing self-assessment documentation demonstrating control effectiveness, coordinating with internal audit teams on control testing, implementing recommendations from previous audit cycles, and continuously strengthening internal controls over fixed asset processes.
Building strong relationships with auditors through professionalism, responsiveness, and transparency ensures smooth audit processes. You'll anticipate auditor needs based on prior experience, proactively address potential questions or concerns, communicate status updates on outstanding requests, and leverage audit feedback for continuous improvement.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication
Collaborating across functions and countries to enhance teamwork and deliver results characterizes the collaborative nature of this role. You'll support colleagues by sharing knowledge and best practices, managing communications with Roche Affiliates across EMEA, coordinating with non-financial teams including procurement, project management, and facilities, engaging with third-party service providers and vendors, and facilitating effective handoffs between teams and geographies.
Your communication responsibilities include explaining complex accounting concepts to non-financial stakeholders, preparing clear documentation and process instructions, conducting training sessions on fixed asset accounting procedures, participating in cross-functional project teams, and building effective working relationships across organizational boundaries.
Effective stakeholder management ensures alignment and timely delivery. You'll understand stakeholder priorities and expectations, provide regular status updates on key activities and initiatives, escalate issues appropriately when resolution requires senior involvement, manage competing priorities through clear communication, and demonstrate responsiveness to stakeholder needs.
Alignment with Country Chief Accountant
Closely aligning with the Country Chief Accountant ensures your work supports country-level priorities and strategic objectives. You'll participate in regular check-ins to discuss priorities and challenges, provide status updates on key deliverables and projects, seek guidance on complex accounting issues or interpretations, propose process improvements based on operational insights, and support country finance initiatives and special projects.
Your strategic partnership with the Country Chief Accountant includes understanding country-specific regulatory requirements, aligning local practices with global standards and policies, contributing to country finance strategy and planning, representing fixed assets perspective in country finance discussions, and supporting leadership decisions with data-driven analysis and recommendations.
Process and System Improvement Initiatives
Contributing to the continuous improvement of the Local Finance Team and Roche-Budapest represents an ongoing commitment. You'll identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks in current processes, propose automation opportunities to reduce manual effort, recommend system enhancements to improve functionality, share best practices from other Roche entities, and participate in process improvement projects and working groups.
Your improvement mindset drives innovation in fixed asset accounting operations. You'll challenge existing processes with "why do we do it this way?" questioning, benchmark against external best practices and industry standards, pilot new approaches and measure results, document process improvements and share lessons learned, and recognize and celebrate successful improvements.
Leveraging technology to enhance efficiency includes exploring RPA (Robotic Process Automation) opportunities, implementing workflow automation tools, utilizing data analytics for insights, developing self-service reporting capabilities, and adopting digital collaboration platforms.
Flexible Assignment Management
Flexibly handling various assignments, including cross-functional and cross-geographic tasks as business needs evolve, demonstrates your adaptability and versatility. You'll take on special projects outside normal responsibilities, provide backup coverage for colleagues during absences, support system implementations or upgrades, participate in harmonization initiatives across countries, and contribute to ad-hoc analyses and reporting requests.
Your flexibility extends to adapting work schedules to accommodate global teams across time zones, learning new processes or systems as business evolves, stepping into new roles or responsibilities as opportunities arise, supporting surge capacity during peak periods, and maintaining positive attitude when priorities shift unexpectedly.
Who You Are: Required Qualifications
Educational Background
A university degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline, provides the foundational knowledge required for this role. Relevant degrees include Bachelor's or Master's in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration with accounting concentration, Economics, or equivalent qualifications. Professional accounting certifications (ACCA, CPA, CIMA) or progress toward certification strengthens your candidacy.
Professional Experience
Two to four years of experience in a relevant accounting position demonstrates your practical expertise and readiness for this senior-level role. Your experience should include exposure to fixed asset accounting, period-end closing processes, financial reporting and analysis, system reconciliations, and audit support activities.
Technical Competencies
Strong understanding of Fixed Asset Accounting forms the core technical requirement. You should demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of asset capitalization criteria and policies, depreciation methods including straight-line, declining balance, and units of production, asset impairment testing and indicators, disposal accounting and gain/loss calculation, and component accounting for complex assets.
Good to have technical skills that will enhance your effectiveness include SAP Fixed Assets (FA) module experience with hands-on configuration and transaction processing, IAS 16 (Property, Plant and Equipment) deep technical knowledge, and IFRS 16 (Leases) expertise in lease classification, measurement, and disclosure.
Understanding of broader accounting principles ensures you see the bigger picture beyond just fixed assets. You should be familiar with IFRS and GAAP accounting standards, consolidation and group reporting concepts, internal controls and SOX compliance, accounting for construction-in-progress, and intercompany transactions and eliminations.
Professional Skills
Excellent communication skills enable effective collaboration across diverse stakeholders. You should articulate complex accounting concepts clearly to various audiences, write clear, concise documentation and emails, present information confidently in meetings, listen actively to understand stakeholder needs, and tailor communication style to audience and context.
Outstanding analytical skills allow you to solve complex problems and derive insights. You should analyze large datasets to identify patterns and anomalies, investigate discrepancies and determine root causes, evaluate alternative approaches and recommend solutions, synthesize information from multiple sources, and think critically about assumptions and implications.
Outstanding customer orientation and service focus ensures stakeholder satisfaction. You should understand internal customer needs and expectations, deliver work products that meet quality standards, respond promptly to inquiries and requests, proactively communicate status and potential delays, and continuously seek feedback to improve service delivery.
Strong interpersonal skills and team player attitude foster effective collaboration. You should build positive relationships across functions and geographies, contribute constructively to team discussions and decisions, support colleagues and offer help when needed, give and receive feedback professionally, and maintain professionalism in all interactions.
Proficiency in English enables effective communication in a global organization. You should read and understand technical accounting documentation in English, write clear emails and documentation in English, participate confidently in English-language meetings, and comprehend and apply English-language accounting standards.
Personal Attributes
Self-motivation drives your performance without constant supervision. You should take initiative to identify and solve problems, set high personal standards for work quality, persist through challenges and setbacks, manage time and priorities effectively, and seek opportunities for learning and growth.
Passion about your job and understanding that providing high-quality service is crucial for the organization demonstrates commitment to excellence. Your passion manifests in taking pride in your work and deliverables, going above and beyond minimum requirements, continuously seeking ways to improve, caring about impact on stakeholders and organization, and maintaining enthusiasm even during routine tasks.
Open-mindedness and dedication to making a difference show your adaptability and growth orientation. You should embrace new ideas and approaches, challenge your own assumptions and biases, learn from mistakes and feedback, adapt to changing circumstances and priorities, and contribute to positive team culture and morale.
Openness to constant development ensures you continue growing professionally. You should actively seek learning opportunities and challenges, embrace feedback as opportunity for improvement, pursue professional certifications and training, stay current with accounting standards updates, and share knowledge with colleagues to build team capabilities.
What Roche Offers You
Development Opportunities
Roche is rich in learning resources, providing constant development opportunities that support your professional growth. You'll have access to free language courses and professional training programs, the possibility of international assignments within the global Roche network, internal position changes and career mobility across functions, the chance to shape your own career path, and mentorship from experienced finance professionals.
Our learning culture includes formal training programs on technical and soft skills, on-the-job learning through challenging assignments, peer learning and knowledge sharing, access to online learning platforms and resources, and support for professional certifications and continuing education.
Excellent Benefits and Flexibility
We provide competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits:
Compensation: Competitive salary aligned with market rates and your experience, annual performance-based bonus rewarding individual and company achievements, and transparent salary structures with clear advancement criteria.
Cafeteria Package: Flexible benefits allowance you can customize to your needs, including meal vouchers, transportation support, wellness programs, and other lifestyle benefits.
Language Allowance: Additional compensation if your position requires proficiency in multiple languages beyond standard requirements.
Health and Wellness: Private Medical Services providing comprehensive healthcare coverage, Employee Assistance Program offering confidential counseling and support, All You Can Move Sport pass accessing network of fitness facilities and classes, and wellness programs promoting physical and mental health.
Work-Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work model with approximately two office days per week average, home office equipment and technology support, flexible working hours accommodating personal needs, generous vacation allowance for rest and recharging, and family-friendly policies supporting work-life integration.
Professional Development: Coaching and mentoring opportunities for career guidance, buddy program pairing you with experienced colleagues, team building activities fostering collaboration and connection, annual holiday party celebrating achievements together, and recognition programs acknowledging outstanding contributions.
Global Inclusive Community
You'll join a global inclusive community where we learn from each other and celebrate diversity. At Roche, diverse perspectives strengthen our innovation and decision-making. We've built an environment where you can show up as yourself, share your authentic voice, be respected for your unique background and experiences, collaborate with colleagues from around the world, and contribute to culture of inclusion and belonging.
Our inclusive culture manifests through employee resource groups supporting diverse communities, inclusive leadership training and practices, equitable opportunities for growth and advancement, zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment, and continuous efforts to build diverse teams.
Application Process and Next Steps
If you're a detail-oriented accounting professional passionate about fixed asset accounting and eager to contribute to a global healthcare leader, we want to hear from you. Even if you don't meet every qualification perfectly, we encourage you to apply. Your unique experience and perspective may be exactly what our team needs.
To Apply: Submit your application including your updated CV/resume highlighting fixed asset and CAPEX accounting experience, SAP or other ERP system experience, IFRS knowledge and application, relevant certifications or qualifications, and language proficiency.
Data Privacy Notice: Please read the Data Privacy Notice for further information about how we handle your personal data related to the recruitment process: https://go.roche.com/budapest-data-privacy-notice-candidate
About Working at Roche Budapest
Budapest offers an excellent quality of life, combining historic charm with modern amenities, a vibrant cultural scene and entertainment options, an affordable cost of living compared to Western European capitals, excellent public transportation infrastructure, growing international community and an expat-friendly environment, and a central location enabling easy travel throughout Europe.
Our Budapest office provides modern workspace designed for collaboration and productivity, state-of-the-art technology and tools, convenient location accessible by public transport, on-site amenities including cafeteria and fitness facilities, diverse and multicultural work environment, and strong focus on employee wellbeing and engagement.
Join Us in Building a Healthier Future
Let's build a healthier future, together. At Roche, your work in financial accounting directly supports our mission to advance healthcare and improve lives globally. Every accurate financial report, every well-managed asset, and every process improvement contributes to ensuring resources are deployed effectively to develop life-saving medicines and diagnostics.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Apply today and bring your fixed asset accounting expertise to a company where every voice matters and every contribution counts toward building a healthier future for all.
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