Accounting Officer – Financial Accounting

Business context 

With its main purpose to protect value for the Benelux business, the BNX Controlling team is looking after pro-active risk management and internal controls, accounting quality and financial process excellence and the deployment of global expertise such as treasury and tax. In that context, the Controlling team is looking for team players with a continuous improvement mind set, high quality standards and a profound expertise in accounting and control. The team is divided into three sub teams: the financial accounting team, the Belgium tax and financial reporting team and the controls team. 
 

The Financial Accounting Team is responsible for: 

Masterdata (Cost Centres, Internal Orders, General Ledger) 

Month End Close Process incl. journal entries 

Accurate, timely and complete financial statements 

Efficient and high-quality financial processes, specifically Purchase to Pay and Record to Report in collaboration with UniOps and Global Expertise 

Intercompany Charges

Banking, incl. payments and company bank cards 

Accounting, Impairment Analysis, Pension Accounting 

Main job purpose 

The Accounting Officer ensures right-first-time accounting enabling an efficient and high-quality financial processes, on the back of a strong interface with the stakeholders in the business and leveraging our central capabilities with operating centers and 3PSP. 
 

Based in Rotterdam and reporting to the Financial Reporting Manager, the Accounting Officer is responsible for: 

Proactively avoid issues in P2P and R2R processes, manage the exceptions and resolve outstanding items (e.g. GR/IR resolution and intercompany mismatches) 

Support the statutory process in the preparation of supporting documents and help smoothen the process 

Month End Close processes, incl. preparing journal entries and crosscharges

Monitoring health of balance sheet, ageing B/S positions, IFRS, Accounting Policies and SCOA compliance e.g. monitoring/solving aged AP items, monitoring leases, help solving the backlog in payroll items, install health checks in the payroll accounting, review manual salary payments.

Increase the flexibility of the team by being the backup in key accounting processes
 

Leadership behaviours 

- Customer Focus: Act with a strong service level 

- Growth mind set: Drive continuous improvement 

- Bias for action: strong operational grip 

Experience required 

- Professional finance qualification

- 3 year experience in a financial process role, feeling for accounting and numbers is a must 

- Solid understanding of the P2P and R2R processes 

- Collaboration: able to interact effectively in a wide network of stakeholders 

- Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems (SAP) 

- Fluent in English & Dutch both in reading & writing