P&I Contract accounting specialist

About the role

You will own end-to-end accounting, reporting, planning, and analysis for assigned contracts, products, or business units. This includes managing monthly close, controlling and consolidating results and forecasts, and ensuring accurate and timely financial delivery. You will partner with business and finance stakeholders, support key project initiatives, and coordinate closely with sub-units and centre teams to drive performance, compliance, and alignment.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead financial reporting and consolidation in line with IFRS, ensuring accurate and timely submissions for multiple entities to Group and International CFOs.
• Own the planning cycle – budgets, forecasts, and Medium-Term Plans (MTP) – by partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and aligning financials to strategic objectives.
• Support and contribute to senior leadership reviews, providing clear insights on financial outlooks and key risks/opportunities.
• Manage month-end close activities, including coordination with billing and business teams, journal preparation, and detailed P&L and balance sheet analysis.
• Deliver robust financial analysis, including deep dives into cost and revenue drivers, variance analysis, and clear, insight-led performance commentary.
• Be accountable for monthly reporting, outlooks, and MTP delivery, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and stakeholder alignment.
• Act as a controller to Operations, providing actionable insights on contract, product, and unit-level performance.
• Drive alignment between finance and business strategy through regular performance and planning discussions with key stakeholders.
• Ensure strong compliance and internal control framework, supporting audits, risk assessments, and timely resolution of audit queries.
• Contribute to finance transformation initiatives, focusing on simplification, standardisation, and automation of processes.
• Identify and drive cost optimisation and revenue assurance opportunities across contracts and products.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Qualified finance professional (CA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) with 10–13 years of experience, preferably in an MNC or captive set-up, with strong exposure to financial reporting, month-end close, and accounting operations
• Strong expertise in IFRS, group reporting, and multi-entity consolidation, with the ability to apply accounting standards effectively in a business context.
• Proven experience in forecasting, planning, and financial analysis, including budgeting, variance analysis, and supporting data-driven decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end management reporting and deliver high-quality insights to support business and leadership decisions.
• Strong understanding of risk management, regulatory requirements, and internal control frameworks, ensuring governance, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders (Senior Manager/FC level) and building strong working relationships.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to prioritise competing demands and drive outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Power Pivot, Power Query) and hands-on experience with ERP/financial systems such as SAP, Oracle, Business Warehouse, or similar platforms.
• Experience in large-scale organisations across accounting, planning, forecasting, and reporting – mandatory.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo, drive continuous improvement, and support transformation/automation initiatives – mandatory.
• Prior experience in the telecommunications sector is desirable.
• Flexibility to work in shifts as required.

Our Package

Compensation and benefits:

• Attractive salary: If selected, salary details will be shared with you ahead of your interview, so you have clarity from the start.

• Cafeteria package - HUF 600,000/ year

• Performance-based bonus

• Comprehensive private health care package for all the employees, which can be extended to family members

• Nursery support for mothers returning from maternity

• Extended paternity leave: 10+10 day fully paid days

• Commuting allowance

• Home office allowance

• Employee discount opportunities

• Highly affordable mobile packages for the family as well

Work atmosphere and community:

• New high-class offices both in Budapest and Debrecen

• Wide-range of company and community programmes (including support for different sport activities)

Flexibility:

• Family-friendly culture

• Smart working approach (hybrid working model, 3 together, 2 wherever)

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.