Finance Manager

As Finance Manager for the entire Theo Pouw Group, you’ll have the freedom not only to oversee financial processes but also to actively develop them further. You’ll combine leadership with substantive responsibility and play a key role in improving the financial organization. In this way, you’ll help build a reliable, efficient, and future-proof financial organization within a leading family-owned business.

What are you going to do?

You will report to the CFO and lead the accounting team as well as the invoicing and accounts payable team. The entire finance team consists of 11 colleagues. As Finance Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that financial records are complete, accurate, and timely; you will also play a key role in the continued professionalization, digitization, and optimization of the finance organization. The Finance Manager serves as a sounding board for the CFO and the Control Team. The responsibilities include:

• Provides day-to-day leadership to the finance team and coaches, motivates, and develops employees through, among other things, progress, performance review, and development discussions;
• Ensure a clear division of responsibilities and effective collaboration within the team;
• Monitoring the quality of financial records and reports;
• Coordinating the monthly and year-end closings; the Control Department is responsible for preparing the monthly figures;
• Together with the control department, you are responsible for preparing the annual financial statements;
• Assisting with audits;
• Preparing financial reports and balance sheet schedules;
• Monitoring tax compliance and adherence to laws and regulations;
• Monitoring liquidity and working capital;
• Tax returns;
• Identifying financial risks;
• Optimizing and digitizing financial processes;
• Contribute to standardization and uniformity within Finance;
• Advising the CFO on financial improvements and developments.

What are we asking?

You are a strong and inspiring leader who knows how to engage employees with clear goals and expectations. You combine financial expertise with leadership, organizational development, and process improvement. You bring calm and structure to the finance organization, encourage ownership, and actively contribute to the department’s continued growth and professionalization. You analyze complex problems but then know how to independently and practically translate the findings into solutions and resolve them systematically. You proactively contribute ideas in the best interest of the organization. You have no problem pitching in within the department yourself when necessary. You also bring the following:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in finance, accounting, or business economics;
• At least 3 years of relevant experience as a Finance Manager;
• Experience with financial statement preparation and audits;
• Experience with JD Edwards (JDE) is a strong plus; if you do not have experience with JDE, extensive experience with a comparable ERP system is a must;
• Experience with financial process optimization.

Applying for a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) and undergoing a background check are part of the application process.

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What do we offer?

A one-year contract for 36–40 hours per week, with the prospect of permanent employment. We are covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement for Commercial Freight Transport. This means you can also count on:

• 8% vacation pay;
• Company phone and laptop;
• 27.5 vacation days based on full-time employment;
• Investment in your talent and development through our Online Academy and role-specific training courses and/or seminars;
• A good pension plan through the Transport Pension Fund with a total contribution of 30% of the pension base, including an employee contribution of 10.16%;
• Groep health insurance through Zilverenkruis with attractive discounts;
• Based in Utrecht.

We do not appreciate unsolicited recruitment inquiries regarding this job opening.

Who are we?

Our location in Utrecht is a one-stop shop offering products and services for earthworks, road construction, waterworks, and concrete construction—ranging from primary raw materials and secondary building materials to the processing of construction and demolition debris, soil remediation, and the deployment of transport vehicles, cranes, and excavators. In addition to producing high-quality concrete, we also coordinate the transportation of construction materials and manage the collection and processing of contaminated soil, construction debris, and demolition waste. Our operational processes are supported by various departments, including Sales, Environment, Transportation Planning, Health, Safety, and Environment (KAM), Finance, IT, HR, and PR. Our headquarters features a company cafeteria and charging stations for passenger cars and bicycles. If you can play a key role in our business processes, you’re warmly welcome to join the Theo Pouw Group.

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