Group Controller

At Enviu we're looking for a Group Controller to join our team.

Enviu is a non-profit venture-building studio on a mission to create a better world. Today, with offices in India, Kenya, Indonesia and the Netherlands, Enviu has a portfolio of over 20 ventures tackling failures in the food, textiles and waste systems through a global team of nearly 50 employees.

About the job

This role will cover 4 areas of responsibilities:

Group financial control

• Responsibility for accurate and timely general ledger accounting of the Enviu entities, month-end closing, including payroll, reimbursements, debt repayments, depreciation, overheads, accruals, prepayments, bank reconciliations and intercompany account reconciliation.
• Ownership, maintenance and development of Enviu’s Chart of Accounts.
• Responsibility for adequate submission of all statutory returns for various authorities, including income tax, VAT returns and EU Statistics (Intrastat).
• Ensure maintenance of all intercompany agreements.
• Responsibility for fit for purpose banking set up and monitoring of forex and credit risks.
• Responsibility for annual statutory accounts and tax filings for all Enviu.
• Responsibility for the Internal Control environment by preparing, recommending and overseeing relevant policies and procedures.
• First point of contact and communications with suppliers, banks, auditors, accountants/payroll providers, Dutch tax authority and government agencies.
• Product owner of AFAS and ensure continued development and usage of functionality.

FP&A and Business Intelligence

• Responsibility for the month end internal management reporting to the MT and GMT.
• Responsibility for organizing relevant business reviews.
• Responsibility for the annual budgeting and in year reforecasting process.
• Responsibility for short-term liquidity management and cashflow forecasting.
• Responsibility for design and maintenance of any long term Enviu financial plan.
• Superuser Power BI as key reporting tool for financials, trends and KPIs.

Team management and supervision

• Direct management and development of Netherlands based group financial administrator (1 FTE) and Local Finance officers in India (1 FTE) and Indonesia (1 FTE).
• Responsible for annual performance review and development setting, coaching.

Right hand to CFOO

• Work closely with the CFO to advise on strategic business decisions and business monitoring approaches.
• Support CFOO in preparation of materials for Board meetings.
• Support to CFOO on embedding OKR methodology and implementation for FinOps.

About you

We are looking for relevant experience in these areas:

• Study background in financial or management accounting, ideally qualified.
• Between 9 and 15 years of relevant career experience.
• Several years in financial controllership positions dealing with financial reporting, accounting standards development (NL GAAP, IFRS) and financial regulations.
• Roles involving VAT and corporate income tax regulation delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in FP&A and / or Business Control roles.
• Experience working with AFAS is a very strong plus point as is working with reporting suites such as PowerBI.
• Demonstrated experience in improving internal control environment.
• Working in small and complicated organisations more preferred than only corporate settings or only not-for-profit environments.
• Experience in an asset light, project-based organisation a plus.
• Fluency in English (Enviu business language) and proficiency / fluency in Dutch.
• Already based in The Netherlands and ideally within easy commute to Rotterdam.

And a person with this kind of personality and capabilities:

• A hands-on working style with a willingness to not just design and ideate but to operationalise.
• Balanced by cross cultural awareness and the ability to motivate and coach international colleagues.
• Attention to detail and quality of deliverables.
• Resilience to an environment that requires discipline and structuring.
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Business curiosity.
• Healthy dose of self-reflection and learning.

Our offer

• Opportunity for impact, driving change, strengthening and simplification at same time.
• Develop organisation awareness, decision support and operating model judgement.
• Pension contribution to a personal pension plan of indicatively 190 – 320 euro per month on a 40-hour basis.
• Hybrid working (expected time in office minimum 3 days).
• Travel compensation for home to work commute via NS Business Card.
• Company laptop, daily lunch.
• 24 days annual leave.
• Initial fixed term contract for 1 year.
• Ideal start date 1st June but no later than 1st August.