Job Description

• Responsible for providing technical accounting expertise, improving the financial processes, and creating structure within the Financial Reporting and Accounting function to support decision-making.
• Ownership of all of the accounting work streams, including planning and supervising day-to-day activities on revenue recognition, general ledger, accounts payable / receivables, payroll and commissions, taxes / VAT, treasury services, equity, and consolidation.
• Leading on financial procedures and controls, including managing financial period close, financial statement preparation, and analysis.
• Deliver accurate and timely results reporting to management, shareholders, and regulators, ensuring the integrity of reporting and analysis.
• Provide structure and discipline around internal controls, treasury, and fiscal management functions, ensuring budget and cash flow management are aligned.
• Leading the development and use of best practices, policies, and tools to ensure a well- controlled yet flexible organization with strong fiscal management, project management, cross-team communications, and workflow.
• Managing financial systems and infrastructure to scale with business growth and drive controls, efficiency, and accuracy of all financial reporting processes.
• Maintain relationships with external auditors, accounting/tax advisors and banking partners.
• Oversee cash and expense management, monitoring and analyzing cash flows and budgets to ensure compatibility with company operations and stage of growth.
• Responsible for ensuring company is acting in accordance with financial regulations and international tax compliance in all countries, including VAT.
• Recruit, supervise and develop an internal team of accountants, acting as mentors and ensuring team success through timely feedback and career mapping.

Benefits:

• Competitive annual leave
• Yearly performance-based bonus
• Pension contribution
• International private health insurance plan
• Onboarding home-office package

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Driven and high impact finance leader with significant accounting and financial operations expertise, to act as a true business partner to the VP Finance.
• Fully qualified Chartered Accountant with at least 7-8 years of post-certification experience, and proven experience as a Head of Accounting/Financial Controller or similar relevant role.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, hyper-growth work environment as we progress through our next phase of growth.
• Prior experience working in a rapidly scaling venture-backed business a plus.
• Experience with IFRS, NL GAAP, UK GAAP and US GAAP
• An analytical mind combined with strong business acumen, with the aptitude for data-led strategy and insights.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills, able to juggle multiple work streams.
• Excellent communication and people skills, able to manage and influence key stakeholders internally and externally, able to collaborate and drive initiatives cross-functionally.
• High IQ and EQ ± adaptable problem solver, comfortable working with change, natural inclination to combine problems with actions / proposed solutions.
• Ability and enthusiasm to balance major topics combined with a focus on everyday details.
• Hands-on manager whose proactive presence motivates and reassures team members to promote productive operations and problem-solving.
• Open, trustworthy, direct, efficient, diligent and a self-starter.
• A genuine sense of joy and passion for work being done at Qogita.
• Proficiency in the use of modern financial software and tools, and how to combine them.
• There is a blank canvas for you to have a direct impact on our whole company, as well as our internal environment as we scale our Finance department.
• There is great opportunity here to grow as a leader in the organization, creating and building on our culture of excellence.
• As we are a global company with headquarters across the EU, any additional language competencies would be an added bonus.