This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Financial Controller - Group
Adyen is looking for a Financial Controller to join the Group Finance team in Amsterdam. As a Group Financial Controller, you will be focused primarily on owning several cross-regional finance processes. You will interact and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in order to support our continued business growth in a scalable, controlled and compliant way. The ideal candidate takes ownership of various horizontal processes, has a drive to understand these and is able to further standardize and automate them.
Being part of the centralized Financial Controlling team in Amsterdam means you'll be working in the (financial) engine room of a registered and listed financial institution; being part of a relatively small team means you'll be (in)directly involved in a lot of very interesting topics.
What you'll do
- Optimizing finance processes across all regions, moving end-to-end processes from regional financial control to the group financial control team and take ownership of the processes;
- Coordination with auditors to facilitate timely and smooth audit processes, be in the lead of preparing and updating dummy financial statements and managing deliverables (cross-regional);
- Managing general ledgers across regions ranging from mid - high complexity;
- Assisting and coordinating the month end close activities, by reviewing and optimizing the reconciliations performed like fixed asset reconciliations, prepayment reconciliation, accruals reconciliation, along with posting routing month-end journals;
- Meet ad-hoc reporting requests from multiple stakeholders.
Who you are
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in financial control/accounting; audit experience is a plus;
- Experience with optimization and automation of financial processes;
- You have an analytical mindset, excel in project management and you are not afraid to challenge the status quo;
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously; ability to prioritise;
- Be proactive and be able to work independently but never afraid to ask for help;
- Able to think 2 steps ahead. We are looking for someone that can think critically and creatively to implement solutions to scale during Adyen's rapid growth.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!
What's next?
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