Financial Accounting Specialist
Work Arrangement
Office Days per Week: 4 days
Key Skills
Job Description
About Coway Europe Coway Europe B.V. is the European hub of Coway Co., Ltd., the Korean environmental wellness brand. We sell across eight markets (UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland) through Amazon, our own D2C webshops and online marketplaces. We are a small team, so you will own finance end to end and work directly with leadership. What you’ll do Manage sales and customer receipts across channels, including sales-to-cash reconciliation Manage intercompany transactions and settlements with our Korean headquarters Prepare monthly, quarterly and year-end closings, and support external audits Support monthly P&L reporting Handle tax filings (VAT, corporate income tax), support transfer pricing documentation, and work with external tax and accounting firms Manage bank accounts and day-to-day treasury What we’re looking for Bachelor’s degree or higher (accounting or finance preferred) 3-7 years of hands-on finance or accounting experience Korean(highly preferred) and business-level English (you will work with Dutch tax and audit firms in English, and with HQ in Korean) Nice to have E-commerce experience, especially multi-country EU VAT filings Experience in finance and accounting communication between a foreign subsidiary and its headquarters Experience with Exact Dutch language skills Working conditions Location: Amstelveen, the Netherlands Work pattern: 5 days on-site during the 1-month probation period, then 4 days on-site and 1 day working from home Hours: Flexible start time between 7:30 and 9:30, 8 working hours per day excluding a 30-minute lunch. Official hours are 8:30 to 17:00 Contract: Employment contract under Dutch labor law Compensation: Commensurate with experience Reporting line: [Managing Director / dual reporting with HQ Finance] How to apply Send your CV and a summary of your work experience
Core Responsibilities
Manage sales receipts and reconciliations, intercompany transactions, treasury, and monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial closings. Prepare P&L reporting, handle tax filings and transfer pricing support, and coordinate with external auditors and tax and accounting firms.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree or higher is preferred in accounting or finance, along with 3–7 years of hands-on finance or accounting experience. Korean is highly preferred and business-level English is required; e-commerce, EU VAT, subsidiary-to-headquarters finance communication, Exact, and Dutch language skills are advantageous.
About Coway Europe
Industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
Company size: 2-10 employees
Established in 1989, Coway has been the indisputable market leader in well-being household appliances manufacturing and distributing in South Korea, thanks to it owning of the largest indoor water filter manufacturing plant in the world, and state-of-the-art R&D centre in Seoul National University. For multiple decades now, we have delivered healthy lifestyle products to our clients. After the US, China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand, we have now opened a branch in Europe, to be able to deliver our clean air and clean water products to this new market. Always with new ideas, insights into people and the customers who recognize our sincerity, we have become No. One company in the industry and ranked first in brand awareness and market capitalization growth rate* in the Republic of Korea. We are rewarded with what we have achieved. However, that is not enough to keep our hearts beating. Does good technology make you healthy? Can what we do now make your family happy for a long time? Therefore we care about invisible values. We do care about the essence of water and air, not the water purifier and air cleaner. We know best water and air, and we can provide care. We believe that making people healthy is what we can do best, so we challenge the world today with our sincerity. * Coway ranked No. 1 in brand value growth at Interbrand's Best Korea Brands 2016, and No 1. in market capitalization growth rate among Korea's top 500 companies in terms of market capitalization in 2015. (Source: CEO Score)