How will you help to ensure our Vets in Netherlands en Belgium can continue to deliver the best health care to for pets?
Anicura strives for delivering the best veterinary care. Our motto is “Shaping the future of veterinary care together”. The Financial Shared service Center (FSSC) for the Netherlands en Belgium is there to be an excellent business partner for the Clinics to achieve that goal.
Your (and our) biggest challenge
We need excellent financials that make sure we know how we do financially. The FSSC is there to deliver reliable and correct financial reporting, and to ensure that we are in control. You as financial controller, play a big role in that. On the other hand, you are expected to tell the story behind the numbers and use them to improve processes together with your team. Your interest in (and preferably) your experience with the usage of BI tools and implementing automation for recurring financial processes make that your team can spend more time on the story telling and explaining the numbers.
Your Role And Responsibilities
You will be a great addition to the Record to Report team of the Shared Service Center. You will be responsible for the financial control of clinics within in the cluster. You will work with other financial controllers within the R2R team for timely and reliable group reporting. For the daily operational financial processes, you will review invoice processing and cash management for the clinics you bare the responsibility for. You will be responsible for the reconciliation of balance sheet and profit and loss accounts. You will assist with supporting documentation and process explanations during the annual external audit. As part of the SSC team, you will participate in improvement projects, for example automating processes and enhancing BI tools used or improving internal control at the clinics. We do expect you to pro-actively come up with ideas for these improvements, discuss it with the head SSC and rest of team and if all agree, take control, and make it happen.
Why are you the one that can make this happen
You are a strong analytical person, focused and experienced to see and tell the story behind the numbers.
You are a team player who can also manage on its own. Your team will make sure you get a good start, and you can always rely on any team member, but we will let you find out things on your own as well.
Your analytical skills help you to understand processes and your creativity and IT savviness make that you can come up with a plan to get the improvement done.
You are a great team player, willing to help others and to support the business whenever needed. You can motivate and coach the junior financial controllers.
You want to stay in control but are also pragmatic enough to deal with the cultural differences that come with an international environment.
It is common practice for you to pro-actively talk and inform the stakeholders and include them when needed.
You have a bachelors’ or masters’ degree in accounting or controlling.
Your colleagues and workplace
Our cluster head office is based in Amsterdam. Finance shares the office with other Cluster group teams like IT, Marketing and HR and with the pets that we bring into the office. Working remotely however is perfectly fine, and as finance team we try to be in the office twice a week.
The SSC Finance consists of the Head of the SSC, a team lead by the process lead Governance and Control and the Record to Report team, which you will be part of.
Our ideal candidate:
Minimum qualification HBO Accountancy
Experience with Dutch GAAP and local Taxes (CIT and BTW) is an advantage
1-3 years of relevant working experience in Accounting or Controlling
Key competencies: Building effective teams, Drives Engagement, Manages Ambiguity
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently
Critical thinking and a proactive approach
Fluent in Dutch is an advantage
Fluent in English
What can you expect from AniCura?
Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to shape the future of veterinary care, together.
An industry competitive salary and benefits package.
Flexible working hours, an international and digital work environment.
The opportunity to cuddle our beloved 4-legged friends in our offices.
