Chief Accountant

Are you a chief accountant who would rather build a function than inherit one? Do you believe that accounting should help a business grow — lawfully, systematically and without manual spreadsheets — instead of slowing it down with prohibitions?

Then we should talk.

Ecom Sales and Marketing Kft. is looking for a chief accountant to take the finance and accounting function of a young Hungarian e-commerce company in hand and run it independently.

About us

Ecom Sales and Marketing Kft. is a Hungarian company selling sleep textiles — mattress toppers, pillows, duvets and blankets — direct to consumers under its own trademark formfix. Goods are imported from China, held in a warehouse in Hungary and shipped to customers across EU markets through our own online store.

The Hungarian company is part of a group that has been running the same business model in Central Asia since 2022, with a team of about 25 people, its own online store and marketplace sales. Hungary is where the brand enters the European market. Active trading starts in December; before that we are building the accounting and reporting setup from scratch.

This is a genuinely clean build: no legacy data, no inherited errors, no paper. You will set up how it works rather than repair what someone left behind.

What will you do

— Run the accounting, tax and management records of the company independently, without an outsourced provider, in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

— Take part in the implementation of Business Central: define the requirements, work with the implementation partner on the Hungarian localization and the NAV invoice reporting integration, test and accept the configuration.

— Handle import accounting: customs decisions, landed cost, duty and import VAT, reconciliation with the customs broker.

— Handle VAT and the One Stop Shop scheme for B2C distance sales across EU markets.

— Prepare and file the full set of statutory returns: ÁFA, OSS, Online Számla, '08, társasági adó, helyi iparűzési adó, éves beszámoló, statistical reporting.

— Run the extended producer responsibility reporting: producer registration, product classification, quarterly data submissions, fee invoices — in Hungary and in the other EU markets we sell to.

— Reconcile e-commerce settlement flows: card acquiring, wallets, cash on delivery from couriers, refunds and chargebacks.

— Apply every lawful means of keeping the tax and fee burden down, and explain the consequences of decisions before they are taken.

— Build the function: accounting policy, internal procedures, filing calendar, automation of manual work.

What we expect

— Valid mérlegképes könyvelő registration with a current certificate, or an equivalent registered auditor qualification.

— Experience of running a Hungarian company's accounts independently, including preparation and filing of the annual financial statements.

— Experience of VAT compliance with intra-EU transactions, ideally including the One Stop Shop scheme.

— Experience of import accounting from third countries.

— Working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Experience of implementation or migration is a strong advantage.

— Hungarian at native or fully professional level, and English at working professional level — all communication with the owner is in English.

— A business partner's mindset: you explain the consequences of a decision before it is made and propose an alternative instead of saying no.

— Systematic and digitally organized: tasks in a planner, files in a clear structure, nothing kept in your head.

— E-commerce accounting experience — high transaction volumes, payment provider settlements, cash on delivery — is an advantage.

— Extended producer responsibility reporting experience is an advantage.

What we offer

— Part-time employment, 20 hours per week, with a flexible schedule you organize yourself.

— Fully remote work from anywhere in Hungary. No office attendance, no commuting.

— Onboarding in person in Budapest between 12 and 16 October: we sign the employment contract, hand over your company laptop and run the initial onboarding together. Your first working day is 19 October, when the Business Central localization implementation begins. The first months are for setting up the system and the registrations; active trading begins in December.

— Probation period of three months.

— Company laptop, Microsoft 365, and payment for the professional services and subscriptions you need for the work.

— Payment of your mandatory continuing professional education, and the working time to complete it.

— Tax-free home office cost reimbursement in addition to salary.[MS1]

— Modern tooling from day one: Business Central with Hungarian localization from HRP Europe Kft, automated invoice reporting, integration between the online store, the payment providers and the accounting system. No manual re-keying.

— A clean, transparent business: no cash schemes, no paper, everything documented.

— Direct work with the owner of the company — no bureaucracy, no five layers of approval.

— Transparent pay: fixed salary plus a variable part based on performance indicators. Details at the final interview.

— Room to grow with the function: as the business scales across EU markets, the role grows from a single-handed function into a team.

A letter from Managing Director

Hello. My name is Maksim Sobolev and I am the managing director of Ecom Sales and Marketing. We are an e-commerce company selling sleep products through our own online store and marketplaces.

I believe a strong accounting function does not tell the business no. It helps it grow safely, systematically and predictably.

We are not a match if accounting to you means moving papers out of habit: extra entries just in case, over-insurance against every imaginable risk, piles of manual work, records kept in someone's head, and the attitude of doing the minimum so the tax office does not ask questions.

We are looking for a partner who:

— Keeps real, transparent records rather than formal reporting.

— Keeps proposing improvements, simplifies and automates, removes manual load.

— Spots the gaps before they become problems.

— Documents and formalizes processes and thinks in systems.

In Hungary we are starting from a blank page. Whoever takes this role will decide how the accounting of this company works for years to come — and will have my full backing to do it properly. I treat the people who make our system stronger as partners, and I hope we meet soon.