Financial Controller - Netherlands

Job title – Financial Controller (68387)

Location – Maatricht, Netherlands / Village-Neuf, France

Job model – Hybrid

Are you someone with a strong personality looking for opportunities, thinking out of the box and share your vison and own your point of view?

For the Finance function in the finance region EMEA, we are looking for a:

Financial Controller

As part of the Finance Region EMEA organization (fulltime)

Based in Maastricht (Netherlands) or Village-Neuf (France)

The legal entity controller has overall responsibility for the coordination, monitoring, reporting and analysis of the legal entity’s financial statements. To ensure this, the legal entity controller is responsible for implementing and supervising structured interactions with all relevant stakeholders: BG account manager, other financial control teams (CCS, OCS, TP), Financial Shared Services, internal and external auditors and when applicable: Lead Management Accountant and Business Partner (e.g. for Service Units).

The new LEC will work closely with the French manufacturing site of Village-Neuf. 

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Key Responsibilities  

• Oversee and execute finance actuals, closing, and reporting activities for assigned reporting unit(s) to ensure timely delivery and accuracy.
• Perform thorough sanity checks of the Profit and Loss (P&L) statement and coordinate variances analysis against actuals, including comparisons to prior periods.
• Ensure compliance with dsm-firmenich Accounting Rules, international, and local statutory accounting standards to maintain integrity of financial statements and management reports.
• Monitor the Balance Sheet, conduct financial variance analysis, and address open …