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GL Controller / Accountant
(Fulltime 38 hours per week)
A finance role at Europe’s fastest growing retailer offers challenges you won’t find in any other international company. Because at a growth-pace of over 200 store openings a year in twelve countries, we need to define and implement best practices to future-proof our Finance function. As GL accountant at Action, you will take the lead in creating a shared service and the efficiencies needed to stay in control, meeting key deadlines and deliverables. Would you like to have the autonomy to make substantial changes, improving financial risk management and decision-making?
This is your daily action
Action’s exponential growth means that tasks could easily get blurred. Trying to cope with an ever growing workload, GL and business controllers at our entities across Europe increasingly take on non-role-specific tasks. To free up their time and enable them to review and challenge reporting and recommendations, you will transfer and centralise key GL accounting tasks. These include transfer pricing, stock provisions, margin adjustments, preparing financial information, currency revaluation, accounting loans and interests, etc.
In the transitional phase, you will develop a profound understanding of the tasks to be transferred, for which you will collaborate closely with our entities’ GL and business controllers. And you will align general ledger accounting practices for group and local ledgers. Creating processes for collating and analysing the financial information from across Europe and reconciling accounts with the general ledger, you will ensure that the information complies with professional and regulatory standards. You’ll also be sparring with your stakeholders, who may challenge decisions and provisions. That’s how you will create a sound financial base for the group as a whole and help stakeholders make informed decisions.
Questioning the status quo, you will consolidate and standardise practices while continuously improving our methods. Once processes are in place, accounting tasks will be delegated to the central GL Accounting team, which is your home base. Our currently seven-strong team of accounting & controlling specialists is growing to ensure we can absorb the demands and challenges in our Finance Department, of which we are part. We are very collaborative, sharing ideas and best practices. Working in a happy, positive environment, you will get every opportunity to evolve and grow your career!
Meet your team
Welcome to Finance: the figures club. And we have great figures at Action. We open more than 200 new stores every year and new distribution centres spread across Europe on a regular basis. Turnover growth? In recent years, it’s been 20% a year on average. So it’s no surprise that our team is bursting with energy. In total, we work with about 90 specialists on various topics. From financial administration to reporting and from treasury to business control. We ensure that all figures are in order and well recorded, and that our systems and processes work more and more efficiently. We do this for all the countries where Action operates. We also challenge the business owners to broaden their field of vision. Hard growth triggers us to constantly reflect together, build new structures, improve and positively influence the operating result. So if there is anywhere you can develop as a financial professional, it’s at Action Finance!
Curious about your new team members? There are two Capex accountants, one lease accountant, and three Housing accountants who can’t wait to work with you!
This is you
You thrive on implementing efficient and effective working methods with the least possible complexity. Focusing on continuous process improvement, you do not hesitate to question current methods. To convince the internal stakeholders of your approach and achieve resounding results, you harness your communication and stakeholder management skills. Meeting time-sensitive deadlines, you work accurately, have a keen eye for detail and take ownership of your area of responsibility in our fast-paced organisation.
In addition:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Finance, an accounting qualification or you’re studying for an accounting qualification.
- Extensive experience of GL accounting and controlling.
- In-depth knowledge of the wider finance function.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel, budgeting tools and preferably with SAP.
- A good command of written and spoken English, as you’ll be working with international colleagues at our headquarters in Zwaagdijk in the province of North Holland.
What we offer
Surprisingly more! From our bustling home base in the Netherlands, you’ll have an impact on the whole of Europe. The counter now stands at more than 2,000 stores in 12 countries and millions of smiles from our customers. And we have big growth ambitions. For Action and for you. Because our growth means that you can always take new steps. A different job, an interesting innovation project, new skills: as a professional you can develop without limits. And all this in a culture where our shared values are truly lived: customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost consciousness and respect.
Did you know that you can also count on us for:
- A market-based salary based on a 38-hour work week
- An annual bonus between 7,5% and 15% based on company and personal performance
- 24 days of holiday and the option to buy 5 extra days (based on 38 hours per week)
- A temporary contract with the intention of offering you a permanent contract in the long term
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of working up to 60% from home, of course in coordination with your team and manager
- 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action
- A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and travel expenses allowance. Zwaagdijk-Oost is traffic jam-free and only 30 minutes by car from Amsterdam. Are you travelling by public transport? We’ve arranged transport for you from Hoorn station.
How we contribute to society
If you only know Action from the stores, a world will open up for you when you join us. For example, we are working hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know, for example, that we sponsor more than 2,000 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children’s Village? That our team reflects the diversity of our customers, including 124 nationalities? That we already source 70% of our wood products and 86% of our cotton sustainably? And that only energy-efficient LED lighting is used in more than half of our stores? Yes, that is also Action. Curious about what other initiatives we’re facilitating? Join our team and find out for yourself.
Interested?
We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who recognises themselves in the vacancy to apply. So take action and respond to this vacancy now!
What happens next:
- Response to your application within 14 days (and usually earlier)
- First meeting with the manager and a colleague
- Online assessment to get to know you better
- Second interview with your recruiter, among others
- Welcome to Action…
