Senior Lead Accountant

Jopportunity Werving & Selectie - Talent Finders/Executive Search; Amsterdam; On-site; ZAR 1 196 000 - 1 596 000; Full time

Job summary

A global green energy company in Amsterdam seeks an entrepreneurial accountant. The role involves financial control, budgeting, and process automation across international entities. Applicants should have experience with ERP systems and strong accounting principles. Join a fast-growing team on a mission for sustainability, offering competitive compensation and a high-trust environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

High-trust culture

Opportunity for impact

Qualifications

• Proven experience in accounting for international entities.
• Strong understanding of statutory reporting and taxation.
• Collaborative, proactive, and able to communicate in English and Dutch.

Responsibilities

• Lead critical financial reporting cycles and ensure adherence to standards.
• Take a central role in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Track cash flows and ensure liquidity visibility.
• Automate and standardize financial workflows using new tools.

Skills

Entrepreneurial accountant

End-to-end accounting

Accountancy principles

ERP systems experience

Strong Excel skills

Detail-oriented

Proactive communication

Liquidity visibility

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Tree Energy Solutions (TES) is a fast-growing global green energy company developing giga-scale projects to produce hydrogen-based e-fuels such as e-NG (electric natural gas made from green hydrogen and CO₂). Headquartered in Amsterdam and Brussel and operating worldwide, TES combines renewable energy sources solar, wind, and hydro with captured CO₂ to create scalable, climate-neutral fuels.

Our mission is simple yet bold: to accelerate the world’s transition to affordable, reliable, and truly green energy. By leveraging existing infrastructure and innovative technology, we turn renewable power into green molecules that can decarbonize entire industries.

As a global pioneer, TES is building new import and production hubs worldwide. Utilizing €140M in recent funding, we accelerate the use of green molecules via existing gas grids, making the transition fast and feasible.

Job description

Your role:

Analysis, control, and process architecture

You will be responsible for key operational finance activities, acting as the primary control function and process improver:

• Financial control and reporting: Lead and support critical reporting cycles, including quarter-end and year-end closing and comprehensive reporting processes, ensuring adherence to standards (IFRS is a nice to have).
• Budgeting and analysis: Take a central role in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost monitoring across multiple international entities.
• Actively tracking cash flows and contributing to clear liquidity visibility.
• Process automation and design: Master the improvement and standardization of financial workflows. propose, design, and implement new finance tools and digital solutions (ERP systems experience is essential) to ensure scalability.
• Compliance and audit: Collaborate closely with the lead accountant and auditors on the yearly audit and ensure robust intercompany transactions and accurate calculations.
• Operational support: Provide crucial support by monitoring payments, reconciling bank/credit card statements, and reviewing purchase orders/invoices, maintaining the link between daily transactions and strategic reporting.

Who You Are

• A hands-on,entrepreneurial accountantwho loves both structure and speed
• Proven experience in end-to-end accounting for international entities
• Comfortable working in an evolving environment you see opportunity, not chaos
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, statutory reporting, and tax (VAT/CIT)
• Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite or similar); strong Excel/automation mindset
• Detail-oriented, but also capable of seeing the bigger financial picture
• Collaborative, proactive, and able to communicate clearly in English and Dutch (German is a plus)
• You don’t wait for systems to be handed to you, you help build them

What We Offer

• A front-row seat in one of Europe’s most ambitious green energy companies
• The opportunity tobuild,not just maintain, a best-in-class financial function
• Work closely with experienced peers and leadership in a truly international environment
• A high-trust, flexible, and professional culture where ownership and ideas matter
• Competitive compensation and the chance to make a visible impact on TES’s success and sustainability mission

Join TES and help uspower the planet with green molecules,one smart decision, one clean transaction, one solid ledger at a time.

Have you become excited after reading this job posting and can’t wait to start working at TES?

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