Financial Accountant & Controller (m/f/d)

Job description

Your new team: Want to own both the numbers and the narrative behind them? As our Financial Accountant & Controller, you will join a small, close knit Finance team in a fast-growing FinTech scale up in the consumer credit space. This role is based in the Netherlands and sits with Lender & Spender, our Dutch subsidiary. You will report to the Finance Manager, work hands on across Accounting and Controlling, and help supervise and develop a Junior Finance colleague. Beyond your local team, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the auxmoney Group as we scale our finance setup together. What you can expect: Own the financial administration: You ensure a complete and accurate financial administration, including bookkeeping and verification, so the business can rely on clean numbers at all times. Drive month end and year end: You prepare monthly closings and contribute to the annual financial statements with a high bar for quality and consistency. Strengthen the team: You guide and coach a Junior Finance professional and help raise the overall quality and speed of execution in the team. Professionalize finance processes: You automate, optimize, and standardize finance workflows to support scale up growth and reduce manual effort. Deliver analysis and forecasting: You perform sharp financial analyses and prepare reliable forecasts that help management make better decisions. Build management dashboards: You build and maintain clear dashboards that translate financial data into actionable guidance for leadership. Support regulatory reporting: You are co responsible for periodic reporting to regulators such as AFM, DNB, and ESMA, and you help keep requirements understood and implemented. Work setup: You will work in a hybrid setup with our Amsterdam office and flexible work from home options. Your profile Relevant experience: You bring 3 to 5 years of experience in accounting, finance, controlling, or a similar role at a comparable scope and complexity. Scale up mindset: You bring builder energy, take initiative, and enjoy improving things instead of waiting for perfect conditions. Sector affinity: You have experience in or a strong affinity for the financial sector or credit lending, and you are comfortable in a regulated environment. Regulatory curiosity: Ideally you have experience with Wft, AFM, and DNB requirements, or you are highly motivated to learn this quickly. Systems strength: You are strong in Excel, and you pick up new finance tools and software quickly. Ways of working: You are accurate, structured, and analytically strong, and you communicate clearly with both finance and non-finance stakeholders. Languages: You are fluent in English and ideally comfortable holding conversations in Dutch. What we offer: Competitive Compensation: Earn a gross monthly salary between €4,500 and €5,500 (based on 40 hours), depending on your experience – plus an 8% holiday allowance on top. Time to Recharge: With 25 vacation days per year, you'll have plenty of time to fully switch off and come back energized. Secure Your Future: We offer a solid pension scheme so you can plan ahead and build long-term financial security with us. Grow with Us: Unlock your potential with a dedicated training budget – whether for Wft certificates, compliance training, or other professional development goals. Flexibility for Your Lifestyle: Enjoy a modern workplace in the heart of Amsterdam combined with flexible work-from-home options and the right hardware (laptop, extra monitor) to set you up for success – wherever you work. Independent Work: As a scale-up, we keep decision-making paths short. You'll feel the impact of your work from day one and have the space to take on real responsibility. Team Spirit: We believe hard work and fun go hand in hand – expect regular team outings and a great team atmosphere where you'll genuinely enjoy showing up. Your perspective : You will help shape how finance runs in a fast-growing consumer credit FinTech, not just maintain it. Your work will directly improve decision making through better forecasting, dashboards, and reporting, while keeping the accounting foundation dependable as we scale. You will have real ownership to automate and professionalize processes, and you will see the impact of your improvements quickly. At auxmoney and Lender & Spender, we're committed to equal opportunity and diversity. We especially welcome applications from parents, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Please feel free to let us know if you'd like us to use gender neutral pronouns, if you need barrier free access to our office, or if you require more time during the application process.