Finance & Administration Lead (80%)

For a growing, internationally active SME in the Antwerp region, we are looking for an experienced Finance & Administration Lead for a part-time position (80%).

The company is in an interesting growth phase and wants to further professionalize its financial and administrative operations. In this newly designed role, you will take responsibility for the daily financial operations and have the opportunity to create more structure, overview, and efficiency.

Your Responsibilities

As Finance & Administration Lead, you will become a central point of contact for the financial operations of the organization. You will combine hands-on responsibility for the accounting with financial monitoring, control, and process improvement.

You will work closely with management, internal colleagues, and external financial partners.

Specifically, you will be responsible for, among other things:

• Independently managing and monitoring the accounting;
• Processing and checking purchase and sales invoices, banks, payments, and various entries;
• Monitoring customer and supplier accounts;
• Checking and finalizing accounting data;
• Monitoring correct and timely invoicing;
• Preparing and improving financial reporting;
• Coordination and alignment with the external accountant;
• Supporting periodic closings and, depending on your experience, the balance sheet and annual accounts;
• Optimizing and further automating financial and administrative processes;
• Creating more structure, transparency, and financial control within the organization.

The position can evolve over time towards broader responsibility within finance and administration.

Your Profile

We are looking for an experienced accounting professional who has sufficient knowledge and maturity to take independent responsibility within an SME environment with short communication lines.

Ideally, you possess:

• A bachelor's degree in Accountancy-Fiscality, Finance, or a similar field;
• Experience within an accounting firm or a broad accounting function within an SME and ready for an extra step;
• Good knowledge of the various components of accounting and financial closing;
• Experience with professional accounting software;
• Hands-on, independent, proactive, accurate, and structured;
• You gain energy from an environment where you can improve things yourself;
• Communicative and socially strong enough to bring colleagues along in new processes and agreements;
• Good knowledge of English due to the international character of the organization;
• Knowledge of French is a plus.