Freelance Financial Controller (ZZP)

The legal entity controller has overall responsibility for the coordination, monitoring, reporting and analysis of the legal entity’s financial statements. To ensure this, the legal entity controller is responsible for implementing and supervising structured interactions with all relevant stakeholders: BG account manager, other financial control teams (CCS, OCS, TP), Financial Shared Services, internal and external auditors and when applicable: Lead Management Accountant and Business Partner (e.g. for Service Units).

•      Ensures delivery and execution of the finance actuals, closing and reporting activities for the assigned reporting unit(s)

•      Performs a sanity check of the P&L and coordinates variances analysis compared to the actuals (e.g. prior month, quarter, or run-rate)

•      Ensures integrity of financial Statements and management reports in accordance with DSM Accounting Rules, international and local statutory accounting standards.

•      Performs Balance Sheet monitoring, incl. financial variance analysis and understanding of open items

•      Reviews integrity and quality of all sub ledgers (incl. balance reconciliation)

•      Coordinates supporting documentation on accruals, provisions and special items

•      Monitors the financial closing process:

•      Leads the pre-close meeting and translates business development to DAR accounting

•      Oversees implementations like judgement-based accruals

•      Actively monitors the closing process based on the financial closing cockpit 

•      Defines and follows up on mitigation actions in case of issues during the closing in order to ensure correct and complete actuals and meet defined deadlines

•      Drives the monthly evaluation meeting and follows up on occurred issues and defined improvements actions

Analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting

·        Supports the business with the setting up of the budget and forecast cycles

·        Upload and lock budget and RAF data in CFIN

Finance Reporting

·        Provide reports for Provisions/Accruals

·        Supports Management Reporting BG/BU, Monthly Reporting Deck Forecast/Actuals and Cashflow

·        Ensures integrity of data used in management reports related to the legal entity

Internal Control and Auditing

·        Ensures compliance with DSM internal control requirements

·        Monitors the internal control framework on a monthly basis and follows up on remediation plans

·        Acts as Single point of contact for all internal and external audits

·        Follows up on financial audit findings

·        Ensures that assets and liabilities are correctly and completely recognized

·        Ensures that roles and responsibilities are in line with the (updated) ARIS flows and makes sure that processes are performed according to the approved standard House of Finance processes 

Requirements

-(near) Native French Speaking

-English speaking is a must

-Preferred to have knowledge of French accounting

-3-4 years of experience as a financial controller

-SAP (4Hana) knowledge preferred or the eagerness to learn the system