Financial Controller

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Financial Controller

The Role

As our new Financial Controller you will be responsible for optimal financial management reporting for all O'Neill companies, with special attention to our retail channel.

You will be involved in improvement projects concerning financial reporting/controlling and delivering a proper and timely reporting. 

The role is based in Warmond (near Leiden). You will report to the Manager Accounting & Reporting.

Key Responsibilities

As Financial Controller you are responsible for acting as liaison between the accounting department and the business. This includes:

• Analysis of actual and fixed costs per channel, and support on monthly accruals for reporting purposes;
• A proper and timely delivery of financial reports (such as monthly management reports, inventory, order entry, traffic conversion);
• Compliance to internal policies.

You will prepare the monthly reporting, such that:

• Variances form the budget/forecasts are analyzed, calculated and significant issues are reported;
• Development of the management and financial reporting structure is improved.

Besides this, you are responsible for guiding the external auditors with (interim) checks on our annual reporting/processes. This includes:

• Preparing efficiënt formats;
• Completing formats with monthly reports;
• Ensuring completeness and accuracy of the actuals.

Who are you?

We are looking for an energetic and responsible Financial Controller with 3-5 years relevant work experience, preferably in an international, changing, and fast-growing environment. 

As a hands on team player, you are not afraid to get your information from different sources throughout the organization and are willing to build bridges between Finance and the Business departments.

Further, you preferably have:

• Bachelor degree, preferably in Business Economics, Accounting or similar;
• Experience in retail/wholesale is a plus;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, Dutch is a plus;
• Knowledge of MS Office;
• Experience with Twinfield, It's Perfect and/or BI applications is a plus. 

Who will you work for?

O'Neill was founded in Northern California with one simple mission, to surf longer. Over seven decades later, that mission remains at the core of our brand, inseparable from the history of surf itself. Powered by ongoing innovation, we continue to reinvent the O'Neill wetsuit, the original wetsuit, a game-changing invention—and design functional and versatile surf- and snow-gear and lifestyle apparel that enables our customers to enjoy their playground longer. As a brand created to enjoy nature, we see it as our responsibility to actively preserve it and contribute to a cleaner, more sustainable world. Our Ocean Mission is how we stay close to Jack O'Neill's original words: "The ocean is alive, and we've got to take care of it".

Discover O’Neill

Want to learn more about who we are, our heritage and what drives us?
Visit our website here to explore the story, values and community behind O'Neill.

What do we offer? 

• A challenging position in an international, dynamic, and young environment.

• Short communication lines and a creative place to work.

• Health & Wellbeing programs, including HIIT & Yoga opportunities in the office and an Individual Wellbeing budget.

• Staff discount, sample sales, and fun team events.

Interested?

We look forward to receiving your application! If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to hr@oneill.com- we will do our best to help!