Overview
GL accountant/ Certified Management Accountant – Rotterdam
Location: Rotterdam – Hybrid
Salary: Salary from €45,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact
Contract: 1-year contract, followed by a permanent position
AB Vista, a UK-headquartered animal nutrition technology company and global leader in feed enzymes, serves the poultry, swine, ruminant, and aquaculture sectors with innovative products and technical services. As an Accountant at AB Vista, based in our Rotterdam office, you will play a key role in the finance team, managing accurate financial records and supporting month-end closing activities. You will join an international, collaborative team in the heart of Rotterdam, where we offer flexible working schedules and a high work-life balance in a culture that values accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement in financial processes.
Some key responsibilities will include:
- Manage the full cycle of financial accounting tasks, including month-end closing, journal entries, accruals, and prepayments to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Prepare and finalize management accounts and reports for internal and group review, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations and VAT reporting, maintaining accuracy and adherence to regulatory requirements.
- Handle supplier and customer setups, credit control, and expense management, including processing and monitoring company recharges and credit card transactions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support ongoing financial operations, maintain ERP system data integrity (Dynamics 365), and contribute to process improvements within the finance function.
Skills and Experience:
- A fully qualified accountant with a degree or diploma at HBO level or higher
- Proven experience as a financial accountant or general ledger accountant, ideally with at least five years in a corporate finance environment.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles, month-end closing processes, journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Experience working with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365, with the ability to navigate and utilize financial modules effectively.
- Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to collaborate across teams and present clear financial information.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, including the use of formulas such as VLOOKUP, to analyse and manage financial data efficiently.
|
Person Profile/Knowledge Experience, any formal qualifications and necessary keys areas of knowledge or experience. |
||
|
Essential |
Desirable |
|
|
Professional Qualifications:
|
|
|
|
Technical & Systems Knowledge:
|
|
|
|
Analytical & Problem-Solving Abilities:
|
|
|
|
Communication & Language:
|
|
|
|
Key Behaviours |
Effective Communication:
|
|
|
Other Factors Trave, shift pattern, working hours, Licence type etc. |
Travel Requirements:
Work Arrangement:
|
|
About the Company
We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
