Accounts Payable Specialist

As an Accounts Payable Specialist, you will be the backbone of our financial execution across our entities. With a knack for detailed execution and a high sense of urgency, you thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. This is a critical, hands-on role where your efficiency and precision directly contribute to the company's operational smooth running and compliance.

About the team

You will join a focused Finance team whose mission is to maintain financial accuracy, transparency, and operational efficiency. The team is highly task and result driven and relies on precise execution to deliver reliable financial reporting and maintain compliance. Collaborating closely with colleagues in Finance and cross-functional teams, you’ll be responsible for payments, submission of VAT returns, handling PO’s and invoices. This way your position will contribute to an accurate, complete and timely monthly reporting of the results. 

Your first year as an Accounts Payable Specialist

First 3 Months

You’ll immerse yourself in our core financial systems and processes, focusing on Payhawk, Netsuite, FloQast and Cobase. You will take ownership of the daily invoice processing and payment runs. Your primary focus will be on learning our payroll cycles, inputting data accurately, and ensuring all transactions are correctly coded and documented. By the end of this period, you will be independently managing daily AP tasks.

After 6 Months

You will be the go-to expert for Accounts Payable, handling end-to-end invoice processing, expense reports, payment scheduling with high efficiency. You will independently manage monthly payroll processing for multiple entities, ensuring compliance and timely execution. At this stage, you'll also contribute to the month-end close by performing critical account reconciliations related to payroll and AP.

After 12 Months

By the end of your first year, you will have established yourself as the key operational driver for payroll and AP. You will be recognised for your leadership in improving the speed and accuracy of these processes, contributing ideas for further automation within our systems, and providing reliable execution that allows the wider Finance team to focus on strategic tasks.

What you will be doing

• Execute the full-cycle Accounts Payable process, from invoice receipt to payment, ensuring accuracy and proper general ledger coding.

• Process and reconcile employee expense reports using Payhawk.

• Perform timely reconciliations of AP and Payroll related general ledger accounts.

• Assist with month-end closing activities by preparing supporting schedules and analyses for AP and payroll accounts.

• Maintain vendor records and payment information with meticulous detail.

• Support internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations for AP and payroll transactions.

• Identify and implement process improvements within AP and payroll execution for increased efficiency.

What you’ll bring to the team

• 2+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience in a high-volume Accounts Payable.

• Highly executional and task-driven work ethic with a proven ability to perform tasks accurately under pressure.

• Essential experience with one or more key systems: NetSuite, Payhawk, Cobase or Spendesk.

• Strong understanding of Dutch accounting principles.

• Practical experience with payroll reconciliation with the General Ledger.

• Meticulous attention to detail, exceptional organisational skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• A proactive mindset, excellent time management, and an ability to prioritise a heavy workload in a fast-paced environment.

• Dutch language skills are a significant bonus.

• Integrity and discretion when handling confidential financial and employee information.

What we offer

• Flexibility to work from home in the Netherlands and from our beautiful canal-side office in Amsterdam

• A chance to be part of and shape one of the most ambitious scale-ups in Europe

• Work in a diverse and multicultural team

• €1,500 annual training budget plus internal training

• Pension plan, travel reimbursement, and wellness perks

• 28 paid holiday days + 2 additional days to relax (well-being days)

• Work from anywhere for 4 weeks/year

• Apple MacBook and tools

• €400 travel budget to visit your colleagues in Poland, Austria or France

• €200 Home Office budget

• We’ll save you the startup pitch of Friday beers and ping-pong. Visit our Instagram to check us out!

About Tellent
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