Financial Controller (Senior Level)
Industry: Insurance
Salary: 60k - 90k fulltime all-in annual salary
Reports to: Chief Financial Officer Direct Reports: (Junior) Financial Controller to Senior Financial
Controller Location: (Rotterdam)
Overall objective: As a Financial Controller, you will support the Chief Finance Officer in the overall finance function, responsible for managing the legal entities. The successful individual will be process-driven, focusing on improvement and efficiency, demonstrating exceptional technical and analytical skills, and building meaningful relationships across business areas while supporting the Senior Finance Controllers and CFO.
Key responsibilities (general):
- Preparing the monthly and quarterly management accounts and annual statutory/regulatory financial statements and filings.
- Preparing tax filings and liaising with tax specialists (CIT, VAT, IPT).
- Assisting and being responsible for Treasury and Club Payments in performing cash transfers (management, credit control, and payments).
- Assisting with the internal, annual, and interim audit process.
- Maintaining the control environment for the financial records of the company, including continuous assessment of its effectiveness as the business grows and evolves.
- Collaborating with different key function holders to understand and document data.
- Proactively recommending improvements to processes and procedures and involvement in their implementation.
- Creating, improving, and automating reporting methods.
- Participating in projects with the CFO, Senior Finance Controllers, Data Team, and other senior executives as required from time to time.
- Monitoring qualitative and timely reporting by our service providers.
- Supporting with other ad hoc finance and administrative tasks.
Person specification (general):
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- Any accounting/ finance qualification is highly preferred.
- Candidates should have at least 4 years' experience in a financial environment. Some experience within audit is desirable. (Can be from a Big 4 background)
- Strong MS Office skills, and knowledge of relevant software is desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Preferably experience in working in an international environment.
- Numerate, well-organized, strong interpersonal and team-working skills, solutions-oriented, self-starter, and hands-on.
- Willingness to travel as and when required.
Financial Controller:
- Deliver support to the above under supervision of the (senior) Financial Controllers.
- Actively participate in the monthly and annual closing by executing the consolidation and by analyzing the correct and complete accounting of transactions in our G/Ls.
- Assist in the preparation of external reporting to supervisors.
- Assist in the preparation of financial statements of relevant legal entities.
- Assist in the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
- Execute and make suggestions for improvement of and improve our processes and controls.
- No previous insurance experience required.
(Senior):
- Able to perform tasks and activities independently.
- Responsible for the preparation of external reporting to supervisors.
- Responsible for the preparation of financial statements of relevant legal entities.
- Responsible for the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
- Review tasks of other Financial Controllers.
- Primary point of contact for the CFO and service providers (where necessary).
Does this opportunity sound interesting? Feel free to reach out!
Arie Beckman
Arie.beckman@oliverjames.com / +3208088609