Dániel Hajdu
Budapest,BU
Summary
Dynamic Senior Accountant with extensive experience at Transamerica, skilled in SAP and reconciliation tools. Proven track record in leading teams to enhance financial accuracy and streamline processes. Adept at managing complex accounting tasks while fostering collaboration across departments, ensuring timely and precise financial reporting. Strong analytical and leadership abilities drive success.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Accountant
Transamerica
08.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: Employee of Aegon CEE BV
- Member of the General Accounting & Reconciliation team
- Preparation of monthly reconciliations
- Approval of monthly reconciliations and daily system balancing reconciliations
- Daily monitoring and matching of items in separate accounts related to several admin systems
- Submission of carve out and gain-loss journal entries
- Approval of journal entries
- Participation in projects (reconciliation user training, transition)
- Clearing of aged items
Accounting Team Lead
INNIO Jenbacher Gas Engines Hungary Kft.
12.2022 - 07.2023
- Coordination and supervision of two teams (Cash and Bank Accounting team, Reconciliation team), 7 direct reports in total
- Team management activities, including goal setting, salary planning, hiring (job requisition, interviews, job descriptions) and leaving (replacement, handover) tasks
- Ensure timeliness and quality of balance sheet reconciliations (bank, cash clearing, AR, AP, GRNI and reverse factoring liability accounts) for 15 legal entities in scope
- Review and approval of balance sheet reconciliations
- Balance sheet review on bank, cash clearing and GRNI
- Management reporting of respective KPIs
- Communication with AR, AP, Treasury, Business Excellence/Process Improvement and IT support teams
- Coordination of month-end closing activities of cash positions and AR-AP subledgers
- Pre-review of manual journal entries
- Drive process improvement and simplification
Assistant Finance Accounting Manager
Nokia Solutions and Networks Kft.
10.2021 - 11.2022
- Participation in and support of accounting processes of two Italian subsidiaries of Nokia
- Support of Finance Accounting Manager in decision-making on operational level, in external and internal audits and maintaining the risk tracker
- Management of local colleague including task delegation, daily coordination and supervision
- Balance sheet and profit and loss analysis
- Approval and pre-check of balance sheet reconciliations
- Review and monitoring of accounting transactions, maintenance of monthly error log
- Investigation and clearing proposals on aged balances and items
- Review of supply chain inventory sales and purchases
- Review of SOX control evidences
- Communication with other departments within Nokia and the accounting service providers
- Suggestion of accounting treatment and posting scheme for complex accounting transactions
- Ad-hoc report preparation to top management level
- Participation in period-end validation project
Accounting Expert
Nokia Solutions and Networks Kft.
07.2019 - 09.2021
- Participation in and support of accounting processes of Finnish and Italian subsidiaries of Nokia
- Balance sheet and profit and loss analysis
- Support of balance sheet reviews
- Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Testing of SOX controls on accounting processes
- Review and monitoring of accounting transactions, support in maintaining the error log
- Communication with other departments within Nokia and the accounting service providers
Auditor
KPMG Hungária Kft.
09.2016 - 06.2019
- Participation in audit of automotive, chemical, construction, logistics, retail and waste management companies, based on IFRS and Hungarian GAAP, from planning to reporting phase
- Review of financial statements prepared under IFRS and Hungarian GAAP
- Continuous development from assistant to senior audit position
- Coordination and management of teams up to 8 people during the audit fieldwork
- Task delegation to junior colleagues and supervision of their work
- Communication with client, audit managers and other department of KPMG
Controlling trainee
3B Hungária Kft.
06.2016 - 09.2016
- Preparation of cost statements and company analyses
- Preparation of return on investment calculation as part of a feasibility study
Education
Master’s degree - International Accounting and Control and Audit
Budapest University of Technologics and Economics
06.2019
Bachelor’s degree - Finance and Accounting
University of Pécs
01.2017
Skills
- Microsoft Office Tools
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- ERP knowledge
- SAP
- Oracle Cloud
- GEAC Mainframe
- Reconciliation tools
- Blackline
- ARCS
- Cadency Certification
Certification
- 2021, ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, without active registration
- 2017, Hungarian Chartered Accountant, without active registration in Chamber
Languages
- Hungarian, native
- English, professional proficiency
- German, passive fluency
- Italian, basic (ongoing language course)
Publications
- Budai E., Denich E., Hajdu D., Financial Reporting Quality at SMEs – a Theoretical Approach, Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica, 23, 1, 2022
- Denich E., Hajdu D., Measurement of Creative Accounting by Transparency and Disclosure Index (TDI) Method in Automobile Industry, Public Finance Quarterly, 66, 2021/3, 2021
- Denich E., Hajdu D., A kreatív számvitel alkalmazásának vizsgálata Transparency and Disclosure Index (TDI-) módszer segítségével autóipari cégeknél, Pénzügyi Szemle, 66, 2021/3, 2021
- Hajdu D., A számok nem hazudnak, vagy mégis? – A kreatív számvitel nyomában, E-conom, (6), No. 1., pp. 19-30, 2017
- Hajdu D., A számviteli kreativitás nyomában, Litera Oeconomiae - Válogatás a XXXIII. Országos Tudományos Diákköri Konferencia Közgazdaságtudományi Szekció helyezést elért pályamunkáiból, pp. 75-94, 2017
Other Experience And License
Microsoft Office Tools – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, ERP knowledge – SAP, Oracle Cloud, GEAC Mainframe, Reconciliation tools – Blackline, ARCS, Cadency Certification, B, 2014
Personal Information
- Place of Birth: Zalaegerszeg, HU
- Date of Birth: 04/11/95
Languages
Hungarian
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
German
Advanced (C1)
C1
Italian
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Senior Accountant
Transamerica
08.2023 - Current
Accounting Team Lead
INNIO Jenbacher Gas Engines Hungary Kft.
12.2022 - 07.2023
Assistant Finance Accounting Manager
Nokia Solutions and Networks Kft.
10.2021 - 11.2022
Accounting Expert
Nokia Solutions and Networks Kft.
07.2019 - 09.2021
Auditor
KPMG Hungária Kft.
09.2016 - 06.2019
Controlling trainee
3B Hungária Kft.
06.2016 - 09.2016
Master’s degree - International Accounting and Control and Audit
Budapest University of Technologics and Economics
Bachelor’s degree - Finance and Accounting
University of Pécs
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