Manager Accounting Operations

Boels Rental Germany GmbH; Sittard; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boels Rental Germany GmbH is seeking a Manager Accounting Operations to lead the accounting operations across multiple countries. You will manage a team of 19 finance professionals (5 direct reports), define strategy, drive harmonization and standardization of processes, and ensure compliance, efficiency and service excellence in a multinational setting.

You will oversee invoicing, bank payments, internal controls, VAT filings, and reporting obligations while partnering with IT, treasury and M&A

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 19 international finance professionals (5 direct reports) to define strategy and drive process harmonization and standardization, ensuring compliance, efficiency and service excellence in a multinational environment.
• Directly manage invoicing staff and oversee the department's manual invoicing process.
• Provide first approval of bank payments and act as escalation point for issues beyond Team Leader authority.
• Foster collaboration across Finance and the wider Boels organization to create an engaged, high-performing culture.
• Drive process optimization, standardization and automation across distributed locations and support M&A integration and treasury IT projects.

Job description

At Boels, we're constantly improving and growing. As our new Manager Accounting Operations, you are responsible for the smooth execution of our accounting operations across multiple countries.

What you'll do

You will lead a team of 19 international finance professionals (5 direct reports), define strategy and drive process harmonization and standardization, and are responsible for compliance, efficiency, and service excellence. You are both a people leader and a change driver who thrives in an international environment and enjoys optimizing processes while building high-performing teams. You report to the Manager Financial Accounting.

As Manager Accounting Operations, you are responsible for the performance, SLAs,compliance and continuous improvement of the Accounting Operations teams. You actively:

• Coach and develop your team leaders and accounting professionals to become the best version of themselves.
• Manage and control team performance against KPIs and service level agreements, and report on team performance to management.
• Conduct periodic performance and development reviews with your direct reports.
• Directly manage the invoicing staff and oversee the departmental manual invoicing process.
• Provide first approval of bank payments.
• Act as the escalation point for operational and stakeholder issues that exceed Team Leader authority.
• Foster collaboration across Finance and the wider Boels organization.
• Create an engaged, motivated, and high-performing team culture.
• Drive process optimization, standardization, and harmonization initiatives across the different areas where people are located.
• Identify and initiate opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and automation.
• Support M&A integration projects and ensure successful onboarding of newly acquired companies.
• Support IT and treasury-related projects.

The team 'Accounting Operations' is responsible for:

• The correct and timely processing of daily and monthly accounting activities.
• The efficient, accurate, and timely execution of the company-wide invoicing process.
• The payment process.
• High-quality balance sheet reconciliations.
• Monitoring of cash discrepancies and detection of possible fraud cases related to cash and suspense accounts.
• Timely and accurate VAT filings, statutory submissions, and reporting obligations.
• Execution of internal controls and compliance with accounting standards, the internal control framework, company policies and reporting obligations.