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Shared Service Centre - Hungary

A world-class finance support centre that delivers a competitive advantage

Howden’s Shared Service Centre was established in 2015 with 4 employees with a main goal to centralise back-office finance operations used by multiple divisions, to eliminate redundancy. It has grown to a team of around 100 experts, providing excellent service to our Howden business units around the globe in the field Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger Accounting, Controlling, Treasury, Information Technology, and Data Maintenance.

We aim to provide benefits for Howden such as cost reduction, data consistency, accurate reporting and efficiency gains through standardisation.

About the SSC

Our organisation

The Shared Service Centre in Budapest is a fully rounded team. We offer a wide range of disciplines, and have a well established organisation structure.

Our culture

Young, dynamic and inspiring, we are proud of the professional, capable and influential team that we have in our Budapest office. We play a key role in the success of Howden and Howden plays a key role in the development of our hard working team.

Our Recruitment/Selection process

At Howden we represent honesty, transparency and partnership during each and every selection process. We know, that in adult life, a change of employment can be causing stress and uncertainty.

To ease the situation, we adhere to an effective and transparent recruitment policy.

The process explained

1 - Application

We will ensure to reach out to you within 2-3 business days to schedule an initial and confidential phone call.

2 – Phone interview

The phone interview is for you to introduce yourself and explain your motivation and previous relevant work experiences. Following that, you will receive information about Howden, extended information of the role you have applied for and an insight of our Shared Service Centre’s everyday life.

If the phone interview is considered positive by both parties, we will schedule a personal interview, where we will invite you to our office.

3 – Personal interview

Our personal interview consist of 2 main parts; First is a 30 minute long written assessment. The assessment will involve relevant exercises/tasks which you would encounter in the position you have applied for. After the assessment is completed, you will be having a personal conversation(approx. 1 hour) with your potential Team Leader / Manager and a member from HR. The conversation will evolve around your past experience, your personal motivation and will be a chance for you to ask clarifying questions to our role and our company.

4 – Evaluation

After our meeting, we strive to get back in touch as soon as possible with our evaluation of the meeting and potentially an offer is presented.

You can view a list of the jobs we have available on our vacancy portal.

Vacancies

Our Values

Our values are the principles by which we do business. We deliver our promise by living these values which supports our culture. Our values define who we are, what we believe in and are fundamental to our success.

View our values

The benefits of working at Howden

Varied tasks and projects

#worksmart #teamwork #responsibility #diversity

Vital community

#teambuildings #sociallife #networking #supportive #friendly

Learning & career development opportunities

#continuous improvement #professional #beinspired

Inspiring working environment

#easily reachable #city centre #great surroundings

Competitive base salary with cafeteria option

Flexible working conditions with home office options

Recognition initiatives

Extra holidays on top of the annual base holiday

Hear from our team

I have been working with the company for more than 5 years, started in October 2014 as an AP Assistant. Despite having no financial degree, I had the opportunity to develop in my career by becoming a senior team member as of January 2017 and got promoted to AP Team Leader role in February 2019. Throughout my years at Howden I had the chance to take part in several migrations when we transferred End to End financial activities to the SSC from business entities located in Finland and Denmark. In my current role, I take care of the work and well-being of a group of 7, coordinating and helping them to support businesses in North-America, Canada and Scotland. We are in daily contact with business associates which creates a good opportunity to build our professional social network around the globe. Besides the E2E support that gives me a full insight and the opportunity to improve the SSC processes through projects and workshops, the best part of my job is to see how the people in my team work together and develop day by day both on a personal and professional level which contributes to the company’s and their own personal success.

Flóra Hős, Accounts Payable Team Lead

I joined Howden back in 2018 and it has been an almost 2 years journey for me. I started as an Accounts Receivable trainee and became a full time employee after my graduation. The challenges I face motivates me to develop myself in the company internally and grow professionally. As a trainee I was working for UK, African and Danish units. I experienced all kinds of AR specialist activities starting from billing, continued by collection and cash allocation. Important to me is the management style and how fast the company develops in accordance with work life balance. The openness toward new ideas and continuous improvement are key factors of Howden SSC success. What does it mean to work at Howden SSC? It is a big family, real team work spirit and supportive colleagues.

Tinatin Vardanidze, Accounts Receivable Specialist

I joined Howden about 4 years ago – during this time I’ve been able to improve myself every single day. I started at the Accounts Receivable department as a specialist then turned into a senior; after 1.5 years, I became a team leader. Right now, I’m working as Business Process Lead and my job involves all the things I love: improvement, cooperation, project management, training and helping people within the Howden family (including SSC employees and also all around the world). What I love about this place is that I get numerous chances to grow, learn and teach others as well. You can experience a very strong bond that enables us to enjoy the mistakes we make, learn from them and utilize all these experiences in our day-to-day work and network. Besides taking our job seriously, we always find time to have some fun and spread the joy all over the place.

Eniko Baranyi, Howden SSC Business Process Lead

I joined Howden SSC in 2015 as an Accounts Payable Specialist. Two years later, I became an SME of travel expenses. Since then I support T&E related projects, attend workshops, participate in knowledge transfer and also develop our processes. The best project I have ever been involved with was the new travel & expense tool implementation, which gave me a lot of experience about process improvement and teamwork. I love being part of the Howden Team because I have the chance to not only meet, but also work with people all around the world.