Finance Assistant
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Job description
We’re looking for a finance assistant who is motivated to contribute to building a solid finance foundation. If this is you, we have an amazing opportunity for you: learning all about finance at a fast-growing scale-up.
In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day finance operations. You will support our Finance Director in the day-to-day activities and help to structure, organize and control BR1GHT. We offer an environment where there’s plenty of room for personal growth, with the possibility of pursuing your ideas and making improvements. You will report directly to and work together with the Finance Director, who will also serve as your mentor, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn all about best practices in finance operations.
You’ll be responsible for a broad range of financial topics at BR1GHT. Together with our Finance Director, you’ll brainstorm sustainable financial procedures to ultimately improve efficiency, limit financial risk and control our organization to help further grow our business. In addition you’ll be in direct contact with our accountant and you’ll gain practical experience by seeing how finance teams up with marketing and operations. You will do this for our companies in The Netherlands, Surinam and South Africa.
Specific aspects
Your main responsibilities as a finance assistant are:
- Serving as the main contact person for finance related questions from the BR1GHT team: about reimbursements, payslips, and refunds;
- Help prepare the monthly and quarterly closing and reporting process;
- Spot and suggest improvements and continuously refine our financial processes;
- Develop yourself in different areas such as tax, legal, risk management, controlling and reporting.
- Executing day to day financial and bookkeeping operations;
- Debtor (AR) and creditor (AR) management (preparing payments and monitoring debtors)
- Financial administration (correct invoicing, checking and processing all incoming invoices, keeping and checking daily financial administration);
- Creation, checking and make payment proposal
- Processing bank statements.
- Supporting the project administration (creating, maintaining and project reporting
- Checking daily processing of financial data and general ledger transactions
Our services
Governance areas
We are BR1GHT, a young and dynamic organization established in 2019. We provide the above mentioned services in six organisational governance areas covering all lines of defense:
- business & finance controls optimisation.
- IT (controls and security).
- GRC and risk management.
- compliance.
- internal audit.
- external audit.
Who are you?
To be successful in the position of Financial Assistant, you are of course well-versed in numbers, you work accurately and independently, you are honest in handling confidential information and you like communicating and coordinating. In addition:
- Finance background and education;
- Experience in the financial part of a (project) organization;
- Knowledge of Excel;;
- Numerically strong;
- Service-oriented attitude;
- Excellent written and spoken English language skills;
- Willing to contribute to the development of our young scale-up organization;
- Attention to detail and well organize;
- Proactive, confident and reliable;
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
Because we are a fast-growing company in an international context, it is important that you have experience in a similar position, so that you can be trained quickly. Experience with bookkeeping software Exact Online that is an advantage. You are immediately available for 24-32 hours a week
What we offer
The context you will work in:
- An environment in which personal initiative and taking responsibility are encouraged.
- You can develop yourself in any direction you like; from specialist, consultant, entrepreneur, to management.
- Challenging work with a focus on your ambitions and personal growth.
- International context; clients all over the world and our international service centres.
- Great jobs and work experiences building your CV.
Financial and non-financial benefits:
- Excellent financial compensation with even better secondary fringe benefits.
- A great work-life with maximum flexibility.
- A flexible hybrid work environment from home, our office and at clients.
- A good group of colleagues and a lot of connected independent experts and partners to work with and learn from.
- We challenge you to get the most out of yourself.
- We support you intensively and there is room for your personal choices and training needs.
- Trust upfront and tots of fun during the ride.
Who are we?
We are BR1GHT, a young and dynamic organization established in 2019, now servicing over 80 (multi-)national clients in 14 countries globally. We work closely together with well-established technology vendors, we source our specialist globally, and provide managed services out of Suriname and South Africa. In Suriname we focus on GRC and compliance for audit firms and financial institutes and in South Africa we provide more technology related services, such as SAP authorisation, multi-application security management, active directory, SAP GRC and controls automations.
As BR1GHT we want to be ‘different’. We put the customer and our people always at number 1, but at the same time, we care for our people and value the social aspects of our profession. This includes a healthy work-life balance, a fun and safe place to work, and the general well-being of all people we touch. We work with strong interconnected communities to build strong inter-personal relations between our employees, our clients, our partners and all independent experts we work wit. Please read more about us and our job offerings at www.BR1GHT.eu.
Are you interested?
If we triggered your interest, then what holds you back from continuing your career with us? To apply, please do so at our jobs page (click here).
Do do you first want to talk to us to orient yourself a bit more? Let us know and contact us via info@BR1GHT.eu, or contact our Meindert Keuning at +31(0)6-53316734 by e-mail meindert,keuning@BR1GHT.nl
We are truly looking forward to meet you!
