Manager Group Financial Accounting

Manager Group Financial Accounting

Company profile

Our client, headquartered in Leiden, is a 600 million EURO company owned by Private Equity with Executive Management in The Netherlands and subsidiaries all over the world.

More information of this company and her line of business will be given in a personal meeting.

Position

Purpose

To assure all periodic reports are being delivered in time, accurate, controlled and compliant towards NL GAAP and local GAAPs for foreign entities/ branches and control of all international VAT/CIT/GST tax requirements. 

Tasks & Responsibilities 

• Accounting 

• Reporting to CFO and supervision over financial accounting departments GL and AP. 
• Preparation of consolidated annual accounts. 
• Preparation of local statutory accounts of all entities/ branches. 
• Compliance with local generally accepted accounting principles (NL-GAAP for consolidated accounts) and local GAAPs for foreign entities/ branches (via international network of external parties), 
• including the correct application of FX accounting and (when relevant) acquisition accounting. 
• Monthly closing process, in line with reporting deadlines to internal and external parties/ stakeholders. 
• Quarterly reporting via covenant compliance reports to lenders (including annual audit external auditors). 
• Managing the annual audit process with external auditors. 

• Financial Control

• Good insight in the origination and quality of the figures. 
• Preparation of a monthly and/ or quarterly financial report for external stakeholders such as supervisory board, shareholders and banks. 

• Budget

• Responsible for staff costs, cost of local ‘work by third parties’ (e.g. tax advice, outsourced tax returns, outsourced local accounting and in some case pay-roll). 

• Tax 

• Compliance with local CIT requirements (via international network of external parties and maintenance of Transfer Pricing documentation). 
• Compliance with local VAT/ GST returns (both in the Netherlands as abroad for local entities/ PE’s). 
• Preparation of VAT/ GST returns (both in the Netherlands as abroad for local entities/ registrations). 
• Managing the audit process in case of tax audits (both CIT and VAT/ GST and bot in the Netherlands as abroad for local entities/ PEs/ Registrations). 
• Knowledge transfer to (non-) finance colleagues who are dealing with VAT related processes in the business processes.

Requirements

• HBO/ Master degree with preferably a postdoc RA title. 
• A minimum of 15 years of work experience including relevant recent Accounting/ Budget/ Tax/ Financial Control experience within an international environment. 
• Fluent in English - very good verbal, listening and literacy skills. 
• Proven intensive recent experience with SAP and MS Office. 
• Good proven behavioral competencies such as Pragmatism, Hands-on approach, Overview, Ownership, Initiative, Efficiency, Team leadership, Accuracy and Organizational sensitivity. 

Interested?

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