As Group Financial Controller, you work in the group control team (10fte). You are reporting to the Group Director Finance & Control. You are sparring partner to the CFO, Head of Internal Audit and the Finance leads in the 13 countries. As the Group Financial Controller you are responsible for external reporting, and technical accounting for the Group under IFRS. You are the first point of contact for the external auditors for both the financial statements as well as the Group external audit process. Furthermore, you will drive projects with the business for streamlining and improving the accounting and reporting process and Group-wide governance around this; you are the owner of the Group Accounting manual. As the Group Financial Controller you are able to support the business units where needed and steer them where necessary. When it comes to complex financial reporting and accounting questions, the board will turn to you. Other projects you will be responsible for are: accounting integration with future acquisitions, including purchase price allocation under IFRS, internal control testing with the current processes as well as the during and after an ERP system implementation.
Besides all the work that is laid out, you are also proactively looking to give advice, ask questions and challenge current processes. 

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for financial accounting within the Group; responsible for the coordination of the annual accounts, including working on the content;
• Owner of accounting topics and position papers with regard to IFRS (for example goodwill impairment testing, PPA, etc), including communication / aligning on this with the external accountant;
• Work and contribute to all kinds of ad-hoc projects/analysis where applicable;
• Act as the first point of contact for the external accountant;
• R2R governance owner; making sure policies and procedures are documented and stored and accessible for everybody;
• Close cooperation with the Head of Internal Audit around internal control framework and effectiveness testing;
• Maintain and where new policies for accounting topics like stock provisioning, doubtful debt provisioning, etc;
• Responsible for balance sheet reviews of local units and giving guidance on how to book;
• Owner of the Group accounting manual;
• Contact person and sparring partner for tax department.

Functie-eisen

• Register Accountant (CPA);
• Fluent in English, speech and writing. Dutch language skills are considered a plus;
• At least 5+ years of relevant working experience in audit of financial reporting;
• Excellent knowledge of IFRS;
• Good communication skills, able to influence and convince various levels of professionals.

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