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The Role & Key Responsibilities Job Title: Financial Accountant - EMEA Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands Contract and Shift: Full-time | Hybrid working - minimum 2 days per week in the Rotterdam office Package includes: Competitive salary and benefits package Join our EMEA Finance team in Rotterdam and take on a varied role where you’ll have real ownership across financial accounting, reporting, compliance and day-to-day finance operations. Working closely with colleagues across EMEA and the AB Agri Central Finance team in the UK, you’ll help ensure our financial information is accurate, timely and well controlled. This is a great opportunity for an experienced finance professional who enjoys combining hands-on accounting with problem solving and continuous improvement. You’ll work in an international, collaborative environment where you can make a visible contribution to improving processes, systems and the experience we provide to our internal stakeholders. What You'll Be Doing Supporting month-end and year-end close, including journals, accruals, account reconciliations and variance analysis. Maintaining accurate general ledger balances and supporting high-quality financial reporting. Managing key Accounts Payable activities, including supplier invoices, purchase-order matching, vendor reconciliations and payment cycles. Supporting Accounts Receivable, including allocating customer payments, account statements, aged debt monitoring and credit control. Maintaining accurate customer, product, contract and pricing master data within our ERP systems. Ensuring billing and invoicing are accurate, timely and aligned with agreed commercial terms. Preparing VAT returns for entities in the Netherlands, Spain and Finland, together with EC Sales and Intrastat reporting. Supporting internal controls, compliance activities and internal and external audits. Reviewing corporate credit-card transactions and supporting colleagues with expense queries. Working closely with finance colleagues and stakeholders across EMEA and the UK. Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes and supporting system upgrades and other improvement projects. Providing wider financial and administrative support as part of a small, collaborative finance team. What You'll Bring A relevant qualification or degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related discipline; a professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, CMA or CPA would be advantageous. Demonstrable experience in financial accounting, general ledger and month-end close activities. Strong numerical and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail. Good working knowledge of ERP systems; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 would be an advantage. Strong Excel skills, including formulas, lookups and PivotTables. A proactive, practical approach to identifying and resolving issues. The ability to manage competing priorities and deliver accurately to deadlines. Strong written and verbal communication skills with confidence working across different teams and countries. Fluency in English; Dutch language skills would be advantageous. A collaborative mindset and willingness to take ownership in a dynamic, international environment. Flexibility to travel occasionally to the UK or Finland for meetings, collaboration or training. Where growth meets purpose 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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way. We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves 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. 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. 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

Core Responsibilities

The Financial Accountant will manage financial accounting, reporting, compliance, and day-to-day finance operations for the EMEA region. Responsibilities include month-end closing, general ledger maintenance, VAT reporting, and supporting internal and external audits.

Requirements

Candidates should hold a degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics, with professional qualifications like ACCA or CIMA being advantageous. Strong experience in financial accounting, ERP systems, and Excel is required, along with excellent analytical and communication skills.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Incentive bonus
• Company car or allowance
• Career development
• Enhanced family benefits
• Wellbeing benefits