Financial Accountant
Financial Accountant
Your Role
- Month-End, Quarter-End, and Year-End Close: Contribute to a seamless close process for assigned areas, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Accounting Transactions: Execute daily, weekly, and monthly journal entries, maintaining financial accuracy and compliance.
- Cash and Investments Reconciliations: Perform monthly reconciliations to ensure alignment with financial records and comply with guidelines.
- Fixed Assets Management: Manage tangible and intangible assets, including additions, disposals, impairments, and depreciations.
- Manual Journal Entries: Execute manual journal entries including back up and evidence and conduct necessary adjustments through manual journal entries.
- Accruals and Prepaid Expenses: Responsible for SG&A accruals, pre-paid expenses, and IP/legal accruals.
- Payment Controls: Oversee weekly payment batch controls to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- VAT Returns: Prepare and submit VAT returns accurately and timely.
- Cross-functional Support: Provide hands-on support to other accounting areas as needed.
- Reconciliations: Prepare reconciliations for month-end closing within your area of responsibility.
- Process Improvement: Actively initiate and contribute to improvements in financial processes.
- SOX Controls: Execute and document SOX controls in designated areas, ensuring regulatory compliance and contribute to process narratives.
- Internal and External Audits: Serve as a liaison for internal and external auditors, supporting quarterly and annual audit processes.
- Internal Controls: Perform routine internal controls and contribute to SOX controls on a regular basis to ensure adherence to financial policies and standards.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5-7+ years of GL accounting experience or in similar function
- Proficient in accounting principles, with proven technical and hands-on experience in financial accounting.
- SAP experience is (highly) advantageous; advanced proficiency in Excel is essential.
- Language Proficiency: Fluent in Dutch and English, with the capability to work effectively across international time zones
This full-time role offers an opportunity to bring your accounting expertise to an international team, drive impactful improvements, and contribute to high standards of financial integrity and operational efficiency.
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