Position outline: Finance Manager

We currently have an opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our Finance team based in The Netherlands and Belgium. The Finance Manager will provide financial control and management to provide high level data and support to the business to enable successful month-end closure and reporting.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Manage/prepare balance sheet account reconciliations

• Review and verification of balance sheet reconciliations

• Investigating queries and data production

• Generation and review of entity and Business Unit management reports

• Administration of cost reporting and analysis

• Compilation of a detailed month end audit file

• Preparation of monthly calculation of income tax and deferred tax

• Correct and timely completion of statutory reporting of indirect taxation and associated returns

• Preparation of annual accounts and management of year end local audit cycle

• Preparation of annual tax return data in conjunction with tax advisors

• To prepare and respond to all management information requests

• Dutch accounting and tax GAAP: prepare statutory accounts and prep work for tax returns of operational and holding companies in the Netherlands

• US GAAP including tax accounting

• Payroll accounting

• Familiar with Dutch tax and labor law

• Worked in international environment including accounting shared services

• Managing teams

• Background in Insurances

Your professional background  & qualifications:

• University degree in Finance or Business-related subject, or equivalent experience

• Qualified in a recognized professional accountancy qualification

• 5 or more years of experience of working in a commercial background within a large or

multinational business

• Strong systems/processes background

• Strong planning, organizational and prioritization skills

• Proactive, analytical, logical and disciplined approach to problem solving

• Self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised on own initiative

• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to converse at all levels

• Good English language skills – both verbal and literate (additional language knowledge beneficial)

• Flexible, as the job may require travel and additional working hours

• Proficient with using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

• SAP knowledge

• Concur knowledge

• Knowledge of BE accounting and tax GAAP

• Legal background (sales contracts)