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Senior Finance Manager – Recruitment Solutions (Payroll) – Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (On-site) 

Maryam Salman · January 2, 2023 ·

About the job

Exceptional career opportunity for an experienced Senior Finance Manager with team management and growth experience to join an internationally recognised recruitment solutions company with 600+ interim contractors on their books.

We are looking for a senior hands-on finance professional to manage the Dutch finance team (6 FTE). Good communication is key for success, as communication to and stakeholder management of the finance team, business leaders (responsible for the recruitment operations) and Group Board is required. Working closely together (‘in tandem’) with the group controller on delivering reporting and improving processes linked to finance is essential.

We are looking for a person that has the potential to grow to a Finance Director role, which would expand the responsibility to e.g. finance operations of newly acquired businesses and/or operations support.

Any experience within the recruitment industry and/or payroll is considered a huge benefit, as a large part of the Dutch revenue comes from contracting, in which the process around payroll is essential.

Responsibilities include:

Responsible for the efforts and results of the financial department. Strong focus on managing the Finance team (both people management and management on day-to-day activities) in the Netherlands.

  • Prepare all company accounts for all the NL Group entities.
  • Provide input to and assist group controller in preparing monthly and annual financial reports, trends, and financial forecasts
  • Manage cash flow by tracking transactions and regularly reviewing internal reports
  • Prepare Margin analysis and Balance Sheet monthly reconciliation per GL account
  • Prepare Payroll data for the external field employees and internal employees.
  • Suggest updates and improvements for accounting systems, including payroll and invoicing
  • Ensure that all financial transactions are properly recorded, filed, and reported
  • Prepare budgets and financial plans for the NL group companies
  • Review all financial plans and budgets regularly to look for cost reduction opportunities
  • Report to the Business leaders & Group CFO with timely and accurate financial information
  • Assist the Group CFO in presenting reports to senior executives, stakeholders, and board members.
  • Establish good working relationship with stakeholders incl. Bank, auditors and Group Controller.
  • Motivate and lead Finance staff for NL group entities by supporting their activities and providing helpful feedback

If you are potentially open to consider this career opportunity, we have full job description to send you a more about the company including a link to their website to review.

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Chief Executive Officer Logistics & AutomationScale-Up Company Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands On-site 

Maryam Salman · September 1, 2022 ·

About the job

An exceptional CEO opportunity to join a scale-up company which enables the automating of human tasks in logistics using AI. The company designs, builds, installs, and maintains the world’s best vision software product for automated picking and placing in harsh logistics environments.

Head quartered near Rotterdam, the company is a well-funded scale up and entering a new phase of growth. Their technology is mature and outperforms competition and their clients are increasingly looking for solutions to automate their logistics processes.

To manage the exponential growth, the company is searching for a new CEO. The growth strategy is based on strong expansion of the customer base in different countries through the strategic partnership with various system integrators.

Key responsibilities:

● The focus of the company is on growth. The CEO is responsible for the strategy as well as the execution of this. Can translate the companies’ strategy into operational activities, budget and planning.

● Leading the Management Team and ultimately is responsible for the total team of employees. The CEO is hands-on and involved in leading the Customer Success Teams consisting of both Project and Service Engineers.

● The CEO contributes to the organizational growth and maturity of the company. Maintaining the professional and agile culture combined with personal growth and personal development of the company employees is a priority. Personal effectiveness and team collaboration are important drivers.

● Is responsible for the P&L and KPI reporting in the Management Team and the Board. Knows the value drivers of the business, monitors, and has an overview of the quality of the main processes. Has focus on Customer Satisfaction, profitability and value creation.

● Manages the interaction with current and new investors.

We have more information to send you regarding a detailed job description and more about this opportunity, if you would like to explore further based on your interest and suitability.

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Chief Technology Officer – Integrated Photonics Company  Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands On-site  Software Company

Maryam Salman · July 1, 2022 ·

About the job

Exceptional opportunity for a CTO to join an established Netherlands based Integrated Photonic Sensing company.

The opportunity is to lead and guide the research, innovation, development and engineering teams to define and execute on the technology roadmap, create a strong IP position and scalable portfolio of technology building blocks for winning customer applications.

The CTO is part of the Management Board of the company.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop, define and evangelize the leading vision on integrated photonics sensing.

• Translate current development initiatives to concrete standardized modules, configurable systems

• Identify and manage knowledge creation, competence and skill development and clear succession planning for the technology teams.

• Build and maintain a network of world leading institutes, universities, and consortia to build sustainable access to the forefront of innovation and drive agenda setting in worldwide photonics research.

• Structure and maintain their vast technology heritage, leverage and productize past applications and translate these into a strong and defendable IP portfolio.

• Manage technology development budget and timeframe while predictably delivering on scheduled milestones.

• Build, manage and inspire a world class team delivering on our innovation leadership promise.

We have more information to send you regarding a detailed job description and more about this opportunity, if you would like to explore further based on your interest and suitability.

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Founder / Director of Digital Transformation, Amsterdam

Maryam Salman · July 2, 2021 ·

An exceptional opportunity for an entrepreneurial minded senior Digital Transformation specialist with a passion for automation, to found a new consulting company which is funded by a very successful Amsterdam based investment company. The position will focus on designing solutions and digitising the investor’s portfolio company investments in the SME manufacturing industry across The Netherlands. 

We are searching for a strategic minded self-motivated professional, preferably from a consulting background who works in a structured way to achieve maximum success.

Key responsibilities:

Working closely with C-Level management of the portfolio companies (x11 companies across The Netherlands) to dive deep in understanding, improving and redesigning their current systems architecture.

Working on cutting edge Business and IT Processes advising and on where to find value through digital transformation.

Required career experience and profile:

10 year working experience as a process driven and proven top performer.

Deep technical knowledge of wide range of applications (RPAs, tools, cloud solutions), awareness of “what’s out there”.

Passion for automation.

Experience in manufacturing environment.

Has completed multiple IT implementations in SME setting (e.g. ERP and financial systems), has a pragmatic attitude.

Have a mentality of taking ownership and ‘get the job done’.

Customer centric attitude and strong interpersonal skills.

Ability to interact with all levels throughout organisation.

Native Dutch language required and fluent English.

Flexible attitude regarding travel.

Academic (engineering/ technical) degree.

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Director of Sales for an Enterprise SaaS scale up company, Amsterdam

Mark Hill · June 15, 2021 ·

An established Amsterdam and San Francisco based Enterprise SaaS company in the Energy and Utility space are searching for a strategic minded senior sales professional who works in a structured way to achieve maximum success.

You will primarily target large new business opportunities within the Utility and Energy space across Europe.

Research target accounts and develop prospecting campaigns.

Dive deep in understanding their business and the potential for business alignment.

Go high-and-wide within enterprise organizations to understand the full scope of opportunity.

Lead entire sales cycle from initial opportunity creation to finalizing opportunity outcome; This includes prospecting campaigns, driving the discovery process at meetings with both prospects and clients, forecasting, selling with Value Framework, and ultimately closing the deal.

Ideal career experience and profile:

  • 5-7 years of field and direct sales experience with an Enterprise software/SaaS organization. You will ideally also have experience of working in a start-up / growth stage Enterprise software/SaaS organization company.
  • A process driven and proven top performer (consistently exceeds targets)
  • Customer centric attitude and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Strong analytical ability, judgment and problem analysis techniques.
  • Understanding of business intelligence/analytics implementations.
  • Understanding of the business processes in the Utility and Energy industry.

Flexible attitude regarding travel.

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