Financial Controller

Role: Financial Controller

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week – Kinly operate a hybrid model, allowing for a mix of office/homeworking

Location: Breda

Salary: €5.000 – 6.500 per month, plus benefits

Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming workspaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people. Our in-house expertise includes AI-powered room monitoring, 24/7 support, and a unique enterprise service layer, enabling us to operate with even greater agility, efficiency, and precision.

With 27 offices in 11 countries, 1,600 colleagues, 900 specialist accreditations, 40-years' professional experience and 2,500 customers, we are delivering scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions around the world.

As our business and client base continues to develop further, we now have a new opportunity for a proven financed professional to be responsible for the day-to-day management and safeguarding of the financial operation, including financial administration, month-end and year-end closing, reporting, compliance, cash forecasting, OPEX control, and support of the budgeting and forecasting process.

The role supports the Finance Director EMEA by ensuring reliable financial information, a well-controlled financial administration, and effective internal controls.

Key Responsibilities:

Finance & Control

• Manage the daily finance operation, including AP, AR, GL, billing/collections, and periodic closing processes

• Ensure accurate, complete, and timely financial administration

• Responsible for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing

• Responsible for timely and reliable management reporting for the entire organization

• Act as key user/process owner for the reporting tool and relevant finance systems

• Monitor quality, consistency, and reconciliation between sub-ledgers, the general ledger, and management reports

Cash Forecasting & Cash Management

• Responsible for periodic cash forecasting and monitoring of the cash position

• Prepare and analyze cash forecasts, including expected receipts, payments, and working capital developments

• Identify liquidity risks and escalate them promptly to the Finance Director

• Contribute to improvements in working capital management, including accounts receivable management, accounts payable planning, and payment discipline

Compliance & Internal Control

• Ensure compliance with internal finance policies, group reporting requirements, and relevant local laws and regulations

• Serve as the primary contact for audit preparation, external audits, and follow-up of audit findings

• Safeguard internal controls within financial processes such as procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report, and credit control

• Identify compliance risks and initiate corrective actions

• Ensure proper documentation, record-keeping, and audit trails within the financial administration

OPEX Control & Forecasting

• Responsible for periodic OPEX analyses, cost centre reporting, and variance analyses versus budget, forecast, and prior year

• Identify deviations, risks, and opportunities within the operational cost base

• Support and challenge budget holders regarding cost development and forecast assumptions

• Contribute to the OPEX budgeting and forecasting process, including substantiation of assumptions and follow-up actions

• Support the salary forecasting process in collaboration with HR and the Finance Director

• Ensure alignment between personnel costs, headcount, vacancies, salary developments, and forecast assumptions

• Perform analyses on salary costs, FTE development, and personnel-related OPEX

• Identify deviations between budget, forecast, and actual personnel costs

Improvement & Advisory

• Ensuring and Improving Business Policies Aligned with the Chosen Strategy

• Work with the Finance Director EMEA to align policies with the chosen strategy to safeguard and improve business performance

• Analyze business operations and develop and implement operational improvements

• Play an essential role in the sustainable improvement and further automation of financial processes, such as procure-to-pay, record-to-report, credit control, etc.

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum completed HBO degree in Accounting, Business Economics, or Management, Economics & Law (MER)

• Proven experience in a similar leadership position

• Strong command of Dutch and English, both written and spoken

Accessibility & Support

If you are selected for an interview and require reasonable accommodations, please inform the Talent Acquisition team when scheduling the interview.

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Equal opportunities

Kinly is committed to equal employment opportunities. All qualified candidates will be considered regardless of gender, age, gender identity, pregnancy, colour, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic. We look forward to receiving your application.