Finance Manager
HybridEindhoven, North Brabant, The Netherlands
Job Summary
Own the monthly and annual close process across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and IFRS compliance. Operate and maintain the group's internal financial control framework by performing, documenting, and monitoring controls while surfacing gaps. Take day-to-day ownership of financial compliance, including statutory, regulatory, and tax-filing obligations across all entities. Act as a senior escalation point for payroll, AP, and the financial controller, reviewing outputs and resolving complex queries. Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and multi-entity consolidation while supporting external auditors on year-end fieldwork. Optimize NetSuite for new entity setups and identify AI opportunities to streamline finance processes. Drive process improvements to mature controls toward IPO readiness. Based in the Netherlands with hybrid options, this role supports a global deep-tech AI platform scaling toward an IPO.
Required Qualifications
- Big 4 audit background, or several years' experience in a company that has gone through Big 4 audits
- Proven experience in a fast-growing, multi-country scale-up environment (ideally with manufacturing or hardware exposure)
- Hands-on NetSuite experience essential
- Strong IFRS technical knowledge
- Strong working knowledge of internal control frameworks and financial compliance, ideally gained in an IPO-readiness, listed-company or SOX / ICFR environment
- Comfortable working with and leveraging AI tools to optimise and accelerate finance processes as the function scales
- Based in the Netherlands
- willingness and ability to travel to our Eindhoven office 1–2 days per week
- Comfortable operating in a lean team, balancing hands-on execution with senior oversight
- Fluent English
Desired Qualifications
- Dutch or other European languages a plus
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