Financial Accountant

For our client we are looking for a Financial Accountant for their Finance Service Centre department in Hoofddorp. As a Financial Accountant, you are supporting the Finance Service Center Team of Europe and reporting to the Finance Manager Europe. In collaboration with the local partners you are executing accounting and administrative activities for the company’s subsidiaries in compliance with local legislations.  
Your main tasks 

• Month end and year end closure activities
• Prepare VAT, EC Sales, Intrastat deliverables in collaboration with the tax advisors 
• Booking of incoming invoices (use of electronic invoice workflow) 
• Prepare outgoing payments and matching payments (use of electronic matching tool) 
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations (Blackline) 
• Coordinate tax- and compliance issues with local partner 
• Perform payroll activities in collaboration with HR and external payroll partner (small scale) Revenue recognition (completeness of revenue) 
• Cash pooling activities 
• Monitor filing of financial statements and corporate tax obligations in collaboration with local partners 
• Assist with the annual statutory audits 
• Prepare intercompany invoices according to transfer pricing agreements 
• Initiate and have an active role in improvement projects, such as improving automatic invoice coding/payment matching, improving processes within our accounting system 
• (Microsoft D365) and other systems. Lots of opportunities in many different areas of the company. 

Requirements:

Required skills: 

• Bachelor or Master degree in financial accounting or similar 
• 4+ years of experience in a position of Financial Accountant / General Ledger accountant, preferably in an accountancy firm. 
• Proven accounting experience  
• Languages: English excellent level, both spoken and written 
• Microsoft Excel (Vlookup, Sumif, Pivot etc) 
• Financial systems and online Banking 

Competences: 

• You are enthusiastic, a team player and have a positive attitude
• Initiative, accurate, pro-active, ownership, reliable and structured 

Salary Benefits:

• Fulltime position
• Salary range: 3200 to 3800 gross based on 40 hours, excluding 8% holiday allowance
• Working Monday and Tuesday in the office and every second week on Thursday

An international dynamic European company that provides supply chain solutions & services.