Financial Operations & Reporting: Lead the accounting and finance operations team to ensure timely, accurate reporting and month-end closings across global operations, overseeing order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, and travel & expense flows.
Accounts Payable & Receivable: Own the AP and AR functions end-to-end, ensuring timely processing of vendor invoices and payments, customer billing, collections, and accurate aging reporting.
Cash Flow & Reconciliation: Manage cash flow operations, including settlement of cash receipts, reconciliation of clearing accounts, and resolution of discrepancies with store teams across 100+ locations.
Dynamics 365 & Medius Platform Ownership: Act as internal business owner for D365 Finance & Operations and the Medius AP automation platform, driving adoption, closing post-migration gaps, and ensuring configurations align with evolving business needs.
AP Automation Roadmap: Own the Medius AP automation roadmap from invoice capture through to payment approval workflows, continuously raising straight-through processing rates and enforcing data quality and internal controls.
Process Improvement & Automation: Conduct systematic process audits across finance operations, lead implementation of workflow automation to reduce cycle time and error rates, and maintain a prioritised improvement backlog tracked through to measurable outcomes.
AI Adoption: Develop and execute a roadmap for AI adoption within Finance Operations, covering anomaly detection in AP/AR, automated reconciliation, and AI-assisted close processes, while ensuring finance data is clean and accessible for analytics applications.
Leadership & Team Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing finance operations team, defining team structure, roles, and career pathways that reflect the evolving nature of finance in an increasingly automated environment.
Senior Stakeholder Advisory: Serve as a key financial advisor to senior leadership, providing insights on operational performance, process health, and the financial impact of strategic decisions.
Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
Experience: 8+ years in international accounting and finance operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
Technical expertise: Demonstrated hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations; Medius or comparable AP automation platform experience is a strong plus.
Improvement track record: Proven ability to deliver process improvement and automation initiatives that produce measurable efficiency gains.
Finance & technology fluency: Comfortable working at the intersection of finance and technology, engaging meaningfully with IT, implementation partners, and AI/data teams.
AI experience: Experience evaluating or deploying AI or machine-learning-based tools in a finance context is a significant advantage.
Leadership: Exceptional communication and people leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, develop, and hold a team accountable.
Mindset: Analytical, hands-on, and proactive — balancing strategic vision with sharp attention to detail in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Language: Fluent in English; Dutch language skills are a plus.
