Head of Finance Operations – Scale & Automate

Basic-Fit; Hoofddorp; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

GoodHabitz & LinkedIn Learning

Career growth opportunities

4 days in office, 1 day from home

Company car

Health insurance discounts

Remote work allowance

HQ gym access

Job summary

Basic-Fit is seeking a Head of Finance Operations to lead four teams totaling about 50 people, primarily in Hoofddorp with a second hub in Madrid and other European colleagues. You report to the CFO and drive reliability while speeding up and automating processes to support the business.

You will oversee Invoice-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Payroll, and Accounting, ensuring accurate data from source and a swift month-end close.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of proven experience in a finance operations management role in an international environment.
• Experience leading teams across multiple locations, countries and languages.
• Proven track record in process improvement and automation, ideally in a high-volume transactional environment.
• Strong knowledge of ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• Excellent stakeholder and communication skills, able to explain choices to non-finance colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the teams across locations and languages, developing capabilities and building a shared way of working across sites.
• Own performance by defining KPIs per process and using them to steer your teams.
• Improve the quality of data and bookings at the source to prevent downstream errors.
• Define and deliver the automation roadmap together with IT and Finance Transformation.
• Guide Accounting for reliable month-end close and shorten the close cycle.
• Lead collections across markets while protecting relationships with members and partners.
• Oversee supplier payments and payroll to ensure timely, compliant processing.
• Ensure compliance with internal control framework and risk management.
• Partner with the business to turn operational insights into better finance processes and decisions.

Skills

Finance operations

Team leadership

Process improvement

Automation

SAP expertise

KPI governance

Stakeholder management

Fluent English

Education

Finance/Accounting degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Basic-Fit is seeking a Head of Finance Operations to lead four teams totaling about 50 people, primarily in Hoofddorp with a second hub in Madrid and other European colleagues. You report to the CFO and drive reliability while speeding up and automating processes to support the business.

You will oversee Invoice-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Payroll, and Accounting, ensuring accurate data from source and a swift month-end close.