Head Of Financial Control – Just Eat – Zaandam

Just Eat; Zaandam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat is seeking a Head of Financial Control to lead a regional team responsible for high-quality financial reporting across entities. You will ensure IFRS compliance, partner with business units, and drive improvements in controls and processes.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, statutory and tax compliance, and collaboration with the Group Finance Operations team to deliver timely, accurate statements.

Qualifications

• Broad accounting experience in a complex, international, or listed environment.
• Accounting qualification (RA, CA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) with 10+ years experience.
• Advanced technical accounting knowledge, IFRS-focused.
• Solutions-based approach to challenges.
• Exceptional communication skills for non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing regional Financial Control team.
• Monitor quality of transactional work per IFRS and local requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners to ensure complete and accurate financial statements.
• Oversee timely compliance with local statutory accounts, tax obligations, and internal controls.
• Partner with Finance Systems to maximise ERP efficiency.
• Lead streamlined processes and complex accounting projects (e.g., impairment analyses).
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

People management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Accounting qualification (RA/CA/CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat might be the place for you.

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We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Are you ready to drive financial excellence? As our Head of Financial Control, you will lead a talented team of controllers, ensuring compliance across the legal entities in your scope. Working ‘hands-on’ and closely with Group Finance Operations (GFO), care for team development, and collaborate across departments to ensure accurate and timely reporting.

These are some of the key components of the position:

• Lead and develop a high-performing regional Financial Control team, driving excellence and aiming high across all deliverables.
• Monitor the quality of transactional work performed by the GFO team in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and any local requirements.
• Collaborate closely with the business, finance business partners and other finance departments to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial statements.
• Oversee and ensure timely compliance with local statutory accounts, tax obligations, and the internal control framework.
• Partner with the Finance Systems team to maximise the efficiency and appropriate use of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Implement streamlined processes and lead complex technical accounting projects such as impairment analysis.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects.

What will you bring to the team?

• Broad accounting experience within a complex, international, or listed environment.
• Accounting qualification (such as RA, CA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent) with at least 10 years working experience preferably in external audit.
• Advanced technical accounting knowledge, specifically encompassing IFRS.
• A solutions-based approach to overcome challenges.
• Exceptional communication skills, with a proven ability to distil complex technical topics for non-finance stakeholders.
• Proven experience in people management, with a passion for mentoring, developing, and helping individuals succeed.

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment. Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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