Finance Manager - Consultancy

Main responsibilities:

• Continually seeking to improve accounting and administrative processes;
• Overall responsibility for the accounting function of the Amsterdam office;
• Give oversight to the Accounts Payable and Expense auditing operations in-sourced to Finance Operations Services;
• Work closely with the Commercial Finance team to ensure revenue recognition is correct and compliant with local legislation, US GAAP and internal policy;
• Contact for the local Managing Director & Partner program and responsible for accurate MDP accounting;
• Be a partner for HR and Payroll & Benefits team on payroll and fringe benefits topics;
• Risk Management, in collaboration with the LAB Risk & Compliance Sr. manager ensure there are appropriate internal controls and compliance with local tax, legal and other regulatory requirements;
• Actively participate and shape together the 'Future of Finance' projects which are piloted in LAB.

Accounting and Administrative processes:

• Coach, develop, train and evaluate the accounting team;
• Supervision of the preparation of the financial statements of the operation entity and Holding & Finance entities;
• Responsible for the local audit and relationship with our external auditors and with Global Accounting;
• Provide timely financial reporting to local authorities and Global Services;
• Perform the monthly payroll check and sign off;
• Oversee payroll accounting and responsible for the annual WKR calculation and reporting;
• Building and formalizing various finance and accounting policies;
• Ensure that local practices comply with policies and local requirements.

Taxation & Compliance:

• Work with Corporate Tax team to ensure corporate, indirect taxes and wage tax compliance;
• Oversight on the completion of the Tax Planning Template (TPT), which reconciles local Dutch tax to US GAAP tax;
• Lead tax audits and processes as needed in close cooperation with the LAB Accounting, Controlling & Risk Senior Manager and global tax team;
• Enhance internal controls, continuously seeking to re-engineer local business process to make sure effective monitoring is in place;
• Responsible for the Insider Trading Policy (ITP) and act as local compliance officer.