Digital Reporting Controller (Maternity Leave)

As a Digital Reporting Controller, you will support compliant and efficient digital reporting across Sony Europe’s branches, ensuring timely and accurate Digital Reporting in line with evolving European regulatory requirements. Working closely with internal partners, external service providers and tax authorities, you will help drive digital reporting initiatives, support country implementations, improve processes and contribute to the standardisation and automation of Digital Reporting activities across the region.

This role is being offered on a 12-month fixed-term basis to support maternity leave cover. Candidates must have the legal right to work in the country. While the role is primarily based in Budapest, we are also open to candidates based in Hoofddorp (Netherlands) or Athens (Greece).

You will:

• Handle and support digital reporting, e-invoicing and e-reporting activities and implementation across multiple European countries.
• Monitor regulatory developments and reporting requirements to ensure ongoing compliance with local and EU legislation.
• Support new-country implementations, including requirements analysis, data mapping, testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Validate, reconcile and analyse reporting data, ensuring accuracy and completeness of submissions.
• Coordinate with Finance, Tax, IS teams and external service providers to deliver compliant and efficient reporting processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate submissions to tax authorities and support compliance with statutory and internal governance requirements.
• Identify and resolve data discrepancies, process issues and reporting exceptions.
• Contribute to process improvement, automation and standardisation initiatives to enhance efficiency and data quality.
• Maintain reporting documentation, controls and training materials, supporting audit and compliance activities when required.
• Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to support successful digital reporting operations across the region.

You will bring:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Tax, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in transactional finance, accounting, VAT, indirect tax or a related finance function.
• Strong experience with reconciliations, data validation and financial reporting processes.
• Advanced Excel skills, including working with large datasets, pivot tables and reporting analysis.
• Practical SAP experience and understanding of finance data structures, tax codes and data mapping.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across different countries and functions.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and meet critical deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in a multinational or international business environment is preferred.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with digital reporting, e-invoicing, e-reporting, SAF-T, VAT or tax technology solutions.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Excel macros, RPA or automation tools.
• Experience supporting system implementations, testing and process improvement initiatives.
• Understanding of Peppol, XML reporting schemas or related digital reporting frameworks.

Your new office

Budapest

Based at the Budapest office, you will enjoy a modern, vibrant and diverse working environment with lots of social and charity events to be part of and enjoy a sense of belonging. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of healthy options, a café, and free coffee/tea in the office kitchens. The office is easily reachable by public transportation. You can enjoy your lunchbreak outside in the garden or have a walk by the Danube. If you like to ride, we have bike storage in the building with a changing room and we also have a MOL BUBI bike docking station in front of the office building.

Life at Sony

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture.

We like to celebrate our colleagues who make a real difference using our recognition platform. We also provide access to numerous services and platforms for all aspects of wellbeing. We listen to our people through conversations and surveys, respect their suggestions, then act on them. We also provide allowances for volunteering days so that our staff can support the causes they are most passionate about.

You can build your career around you with our fantastic range of learning & personal development programs to enhance your skills. We also encourage our staff to try exciting new roles, in a wide range of countries, with a supportive mobility team to support you if you take that leap!

Bring your uniqueness to Sony

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individuals with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.

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