Senior Finance Officer

About the opportunity Are you a hands-on finance professional who enjoys a broad role with ownership and visibility across the business? Robert Walters is partnering with a growing software business in Amsterdam, part of an international, private equity-backed group, to hire a Senior Finance Officer. You will join a lean local finance team and report directly into management. The role combines financial accounting, reporting, audit coordination and business-facing stakeholder management, with regular exposure to group finance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage the annual audit as the primary contact for external auditors
• Prepare the annual accounts in accordance with Dutch GAAP
• Own month-end and year-end closing activities
• Prepare management reports and financial analyses
• Monitor balance sheet and P&L developments
• Contribute to group reporting and consolidation
• Liaise with tax advisors, auditors and banking partners
• Support compliance and governance requirements in a private equity-backed environment
• Work closely with the existing finance team and provide guidance where needed

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline
• Several years of experience in accounting, financial control or a comparable finance role
• Strong knowledge of Dutch GAAP and annual accounts preparation
• Experience coordinating or managing external audits
• Exposure to consolidation and group reporting
• Comfortable in a lean, hands-on finance environment
• Strong communicator, able to work with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
• Fluent Dutch and professional English

What’s on offer

• Competitive market salary
• 32-hour working week (0.8 FTE)
• Hybrid working: 2 days from home and 2 days in the Amsterdam office, with scope for additional remote working
• 26 days of annual leave
• Pension plan
• Travel allowance for commuting
• Laptop and mobile phone
• A broad finance role with real ownership and close contact with senior leadership and Group Finance
• An international environment within a growing software business

Robert Walters Netherlands is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.