Senior Financial Controller

About felyx
Felyx is a scale-up that is transforming urban mobility with our shared electric scooters and shared bikes. We make sustainable, flexible, and affordable mobility accessible to everyone. As part of the Cooltra Group, we are continuing to build on our mission to make cities cleaner and more livable — and we need you to help us achieve that!

Who you are..

As a Senior Financial Controller you are responsible, accurate and work with integrity. You take initiative to improve processes and working procedures along the way, think outside of the box. We are looking for a true team player that is hands-on and has a can-do attitude.

What you'll be doing

In your job, you’ll have the unique opportunity to streamline controlling processes together with the Finance Team, to ensure that management has the right insights to steer the organization and propose actions to improve. In addition, you will be involved in finance-wide projects to improve our efficiency and reporting. In short, your responsibilities are:

• Generate the Management reporting for Benelux
• Be a Business partner to General Manager and Area Managers
• Manage de NL Finance team
• Support the management team in Spain with financial data
• Manage and coordinate monthly reporting process of Segment/Country/Business Line
• Analyze and steer targets; develop plans for financial growth and cost efficiency
• Support the HR manager in the payroll process
• Be responsible for Cash Management
• Ensure compliance with legal, banking, insurance and statutory obligations, and annual financial statements
• Be the key person for subsidiary audit and handling local auditors including finalizing local annual statements
• Have a full ownership on General ledger and sub ledgers and chart of accounts
• Take ownership of Balance sheet reconciliations (accruals, provisions, etc.)
• Handle tax authorities (VAT, CIT, Salary taxes, etc.)
• Responsible for the accuracy and accounting of our assets
• Monitor internal control & risk management
• Generate ad hoc analysis & projects

We get truly excited if you:

• Have an RA or equivalent (e.g. CA or CPA)
• Have 4-6 years working experience as a Financial Controller or auditor
• Have Big 4 audit experience.
• Can’t finish until it balances and/or you really understand it
• Are fluent in English
• Like working in a fast-growing hectic environment
• You are based in or close to Amsterdam

Bonus points if you:

• Have an entrepreneurial mindset (creative, problem solver, dedicated, motivated, self-starter)
• Are accustomed to delivering high quality and value pragmatism
• Know how to multitask and prioritize
• Enable continuous improvement of felyx’s processes in our finance operations
• Have experience in working with Netsuite

An ambitious team of entrepreneurial colleagues with a shared passion for our mission. You will work in a transparent, dynamic and inspirational environment in which you are able to take the lead over your own career and will get challenged on a daily basis! And next to that:

• 29 paid days off on fulltime base: 28 on the roll and a day off on your birthday!
• You will get discount on felyx rides
• We want to invest in your future: a good pension plan is therefore in place
• We offer 6 weeks of paternity leave with 100% salary for all (upcoming) dads
• We take your development seriously and encourage you to grow with the company and within your role.
• We offer a hybrid working environment with minimal 2 days at the Amsterdam office
• €500,- Learning and Development budget per year

About Felyx

• Merged with Cooltra in 2024 and became the European leader in sustainable two-wheel mobility solutions.
• Highlighted as #2 (2019, 2020) and #3 (2021) in LinkedIn's Top Startups list for The Netherlands.
• Named by WIRED as one of Europe’s 100 hottest startups.
• Selected as one of the five hottest scale-ups in The Netherlands by The Next Web & Adyen.
• Named by Quote magazine as #6 in their list of the 25 most promising Dutch startups.
• Chosen to join TechleapRise as one of the highest potential scaleups in the Netherlands