GL Financial Accountant

Country: Netherlands

GL Financial Accountant | Santander Consumer Finance SA

Your role and the team 
You are accountable for verifying and handling general ledger transactions, reconciling balance sheet accounts, and managing month-end bookings. Additionally, you play a role in both external and internal audits. From an accounting standpoint, you participate in IT projects that intersect with financial management. Your responsibilities include assisting with internal and external report generation, supporting the payments department, and focusing primarily on the consumer finance sector. Furthermore, you are involved in enhancing existing processes and establishing new ones. 

The team can best be described as an enthusiastic group with a lot of diversity. Result-oriented work is important. Both as a team and on an individual level. You report directly to the Manager Financial Accounting.

You are
Someone who is accurate, driven and proactive. You enjoy working independently but also thrive in a team environment where you contribute to solutions and improvements. You are analytical, structured and able to translate complex financial information into clear insights. With your strong sense of responsibility, you ensure compliance with regulations and support the business with reliable financial reporting.

Your duties and responsibilities in short

• Ensure accurate, thorough, and timely management of financial data, covering general ledger, debtors, creditors, subsystem connections, and balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Provide both internal and external financial reports promptly and accurately, including CIT, VAT reports, and other relevant statistical reports.
• Prepare monthly and annual reports. 
• Supply balance sheet and profit and loss information to the head office in compliance with IFRS.
• Adhere to financial, tax regulations, and laws correctly.
• Assist in internal and external audits and contribute to resolving audit findings.
• Assist in defining data requirements and providing necessary information for project/activity settlements.
• Contribute to enhancing and establishing new processes.

You have

• At least an HBO/Bachelor education, preferably in the field of accounting.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a similar position (experience in finance is a plus).
• Good knowledge of IFRS.
• Knowledge of credits and credits products, lease products and components.
• Advanced command of Microsoft Excel.
• Good command of Dutch and English, in both speech and writing.

We offer  

• A personalized induction program so you can dream Santander and our way of working;
• A unique international working environment where you will work with different nationalities both internally and externally;
• A laptop
• In addition to a competitive salary, you can count on a 13th month, annual performance bonus of up to 10% of your annual salary, 27 days of leave and a collective pension plan with 5% own contribution;
• Travel allowance EUR 0.23 per km with a maximum of 30 km one way or reimbursement of the entire journey by using an NS Business Card;
• We encourage development and growth and offer various training opportunities;
• The possibility to work partly from home with a home office allowance (€3,35) for the days you work from home.

About us

We are
Santander Consumer Finance. We have been active in the consumer finance market in the Netherlands since 1985 (car financing, personal loans and stock financing). In the Netherlands, we serve our customers from our office in Utrecht, and since 1992 also in Belgium from our office in Merelbeke (near Ghent). The leasing company Santander Leasing is also part of Santander (in the Netherlands with offices in Den Bosch, and in Belgium from Merelbeke). Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together, we are part of the Santander Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

What makes Santander, Santander?
We work with many different nationalities. Showing initiative is appreciated by us, just like humor. We stimulate creativity and spar with each other about new ideas. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.

What sets us apart:

• We have an open-plan office with several bigger or smaller meeting rooms and focus rooms if you have the need for more privacy and focus.
• We know how important mobile work is. Where it can be reconciled with the job, employees can work from home two or three days a week and are still connected to colleagues and customers via MS Teams.
• For 7 years, we have been receiving the Top Employer Netherlands, Belgium and  Europe award.
• The health and wellbeing of our professionals are a priority and a fundamental pillar of Santander's value proposition, which is communicated internally and globally under the name Behealthy. At Santander, we believe that the wellbeing of our employees is key to creating a positive, dynamic and innovative work environment. When people feel good, they have greater energy, creativity, and commitment, thus driving the success of the entire organization. In times of change and great challenges to achieve together, it is even more important to adopt healthy habits that help us prevent diseases and maintain physical and mental balance.
• Our employees can get a sports subscription and Bicycle plan via our FiscFree offer.
• Our Evermood programme offers a platform free of charge for employees about various matters – from support in the form of tips on financial problems to advice on childcare issues and help with conflict resolution at work.

Enthusiastic?

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*Screening is part of the application process. We check, based on the screening procedures in place within Santander, whether new employees are sufficiently reliable to perform work at Santander.

*We have a strong risk culture and expect all our professionals, regardless of their position, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired.