Eszter Galovtsik

Intuitive finance expert with 15+ years of experience in a multinational environment in various roles; management reporting, FP&A, and controlling. Solid fixer of issues. Curious by nature and passionate to have driving factors identified, addressed, followed up. Eager to engage and offer unique point of views in a collaborative and driven way. Aim to go further, understand more, drive efficiency, and challenge. 

November 2023 – 

L3 Harris

Financial Analyst

April 2023 – October 2023

Career Break - Relocation from Hungary to UK

2022 – April 2023

Vodafone 

Senior Controller

• Led the financial close process for a Ukrainian and two Brazilian entities in SAP, delivering timely and accurate reporting. This entailed overseeing all aspects of the financial close process, including journal posting, reconciling accounts, and preparing balance sheet, profit and loss and cash flow statements and explaining variances against previous quarter and prior year
• Prepared intercompany calculations and verified that intercompany balances were correctly stated for period closes. 
• Ensured liquidity and manually paid supplier invoices, payroll and taxeson a monthly basis in the bank.
• Identified the need for a new operating model for the Brazilian entities, proposed new intercompany agreements, and presented myproposal to the senior management team

2020 – 2022 

Sylvania Lighting

Senior Management Accountant                 

• Served as the first point of contact for regional and management teams, including C-level colleagues
• Prepared monthly management reports for all Sylvania subsidiaries (40+ entities in LATAM, EMEA, and Asia regions) for the regional and C-grade leadership teams, including variance analysis, commentary between current/prior month actual and forecast figures in the P/L
• Prepared 30+ Power Point slide 
• Led 30+ monthly country review calls, where individual country controllers were requested to provide explanations on the monthly changes
• Managed the budget and forecast process for the company, preparing/reviewing/uploading into the consolidation system of the sales and PL budget templates. Acted as an interface between the sales, sourcing, and finance organizations in these processes
• Prepared the headcount reporting for the full company, by direct and indirect workforce, by departments (Finance, IT, etc.), by region (EMEA, LATAM, Asia), and by entities. Explained the reasons for the headcount movements of the full company
• Generated the European Sales Dashboard file three times a week, which provides an overview of how sales are evolving during the month

2019 - 2020 

International Flavors & Fragrances 

Lease Accounting Analyst

• Successfully transitioned lease accounting activities from the US centre to Budapest and supported the implementation of the new ASC 842 US GAAP lease accounting standard
• Managed IFF's lease portfolio in the Lease Accelerator leasing program and in SAP
• Performed lease activities such as recording new leases, managing extensions, renewals, amendments, and terminations in Lease Accelerator software
• Recorded monthly lease journal entries in SAP for 25+ company codes
• Prepared quarterly lease accounting disclosure reports for the 10-Q and 10-K

2017 - 2019 

Givaudan

Controlling and Reporting Coordinator

• Implemented the accounting of 3 newly acquired entities in 9 company codes in SAP. Supported their financial close by recording all journal entries, allocating costs, and performing intercompany reconciliations. Reviewed their balance sheets and P&Ls, and uploaded and validated their financial data in the Business Objects consolidation system.
• Prepared KPI commentary for the EMEA team and presented it to the Head of Group FinanceLead Controller

2014 - 2017 

GE

Senior Controller

• Managed monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes of Spanish/Portuguese and French Corporate entities in Oracle and Hyperion
• Monitored the activities of various finance functions and the work of outsourced service providers
• Provided accounting treatment to various finance teams from cash and bank to tax teams on a daily basis
• Coached junior team members and served as the first point of contact for outsourced service providers, external/internal auditors, and the Stat team

2010 - 2014 

BT

Senior Controller

• Managed group reporting for UK Sales and Marketing entity, including month-end reporting, underlying analysis, P/L reconciliation, bi-annual forecasting, and actual reporting
• Provided monthly and ad hoc reports to EMEA Consolidation team and other finance functions
• Supported BT Advise Finance team with month-end reporting and prepared consolidation spreadsheets and month-end analysis
• Led a project team to create a reconciliation file in Microsoft Excel which acts as a SOX evidence between general ledger and consolidated numbers

2009 - 2010 

BP

Intercompany Analyst

• Processed intercompany invoices, monitored settlements, reconciled intercompany balances with trading partners, prepared general ledger journals, monitored purchase and sales provisioning, monitored suspense accounts, and prepared balance sheet reconciliations
• Analysed intercompany transactions to identify and resolve any discrepancies.
• Developed and implemented new intercompany accounting processes and procedures to improve efficiency and accuracy
• Provided support to other finance team members on intercompany accounting matters

2007 - 2009 

Nokia

Accounts Payable Analyst

• Processed invoices, matched purchase orders, and prepared payments for vendors
• Reconciled accounts payable accounts and investigated any discrepancies
• Managed the accounts payable process from invoice receipt to payment, ensuring that all invoices were paid accurately and on time
• Provided support to other finance team members on accounts payable matters

2003 - 2007

Budapest Business School College of International Management & Business

Bachelor of Science in Economics (International Business)