Financial Assistant

Job description

**What you'll d**o**

The Financial Assistant is responsible for handling the day-to-day activities of the accounting and finance department accurately for our German legal entity. This consists of a wide range of financial and administrative tasks and responsibilities that need to be executed in an effective and on-time manner to support a smooth finance operation.

The Financial Assistant reports to and closely cooperates with the Financial Controller who works from our headquarters in Arnhem (The Netherlands).

**The main responsibilities and tasks include**:

- Prepare and post receipts, deposits, invoices, refunds, and other bookkeeping tasks
- Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable
- Review and process employee reimbursement requests
- Prepare, track, and reconcile ledgers and budgets
- Cash management
- Create financial reports
- Prepare and file company tax documents
- Identify and correct miscalculations and financial discrepancies
- Develop and streamline operational efficiencies
- Stay current up to date with all local regulations, requirements and laws
- Actively cooperate with the Project Management team to ensure a smooth invoicing process
- Cooperation with our local accounting and payroll partner to process payroll journals

Job requirements

**What you’ll bring to the team**
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Economics or similar
- At least several years of financial administrative experience
- A solid understanding of bookkeeping procedures including crediting and debiting appropriate accounts, posting entries to ledger accounts, and reconciling accounts
- Effective written and verbal communication skills (German and English)
- Works well in an international team environment
- Accurate, well-organized working style and great time management skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and meeting deadlines
- Always keeps the highest standards of compliance and confidentiality
- Ability to work independently and remotely most of the time
- Ability to travel to our headquarters in Arnhem on a regular base, so ideally lives on a max. 1h travel distance from Arnhem
- Available for 24 - 32 hours per week

**Interested?**

Getting excited about a career in a rapidly growing, dynamic, international environment of high educated professionals? Then please submit your resume and motivation