Financial Controller
Close Finly's own month on Finly, and tell the product team every place it made you work harder than it should have.
Amsterdam · Hybrid, three days in office · Full-time
Salary band · published
€62,000 – €76,000
EUR per year · Senior · IC4
Role at a glance
- Team
- Finance & operations
- Reports to
- Sofia Mendes, Chief Operating Officer
- Level
- Senior · IC4
- Location
- Amsterdam, three days a week in the office
- Band
- €62,000 – €76,000 EUR per year
- Equity
- Options in the offer, four-year schedule
- Start
- From September 2026
About the role
We are a second controller, not a first: Finly's own books are closed on Finly every month, and the entity count has grown past what one person should carry alone. The unusual part of the job is that you are also our most demanding customer, and the product team reads what you write.
You would own the monthly close across two entities, the audit relationship, and the revenue recognition that comes with a subscription business. You would also file a bug the moment the product costs you an hour it did not need to, and see it argued about the same week.
What you'll do
- Own the monthly and annual close across the Dutch and Portuguese entities.
- Run revenue recognition, deferred revenue and the reconciliations underneath both.
- Own the audit relationship and the schedules it asks for.
- Keep VAT, intercompany and payroll journals correct in two jurisdictions.
- Report back to product on every place the close made you do something twice.
What you'll bring
- Four or more years in a controller or senior accountant role, at least one of them closing a multi-entity book.
- A qualification, or the practical equivalent, and fluency with IFRS or Dutch GAAP.
- Real experience of an audit from the inside — not just the schedules, but the questions.
- Comfort saying a number is not ready yet, to people who would prefer that it were.
- Working English; Dutch or Portuguese is useful and is not required.
Nice to have
- Closed a book in a SaaS or payments business.
- Have set up an entity, or moved one onto a new accounting system.
- Written a process document somebody else then followed without asking you anything.
How we hire
Four steps, and a decision either way.
The same four for every role.No take-home that eats a weekend, and no round that exists to see whether you will put up with another round.
- Intro
A thirty-minute call
With the hiring manager, never a recruiter. You ask about the work, we ask what you have actually owned.
Same week you apply
- Craft
One piece of real work
A ninety-minute exercise taken from our own backlog — paid at your day rate if you would rather it were.
90 minutes, paid
- Team
Meet the three people
The ones you would sit beside, including whoever would review your code or sign off your ledger.
Two hours, one day
- Offer
A yes or a reason
A yes carries the band and the start date. A no carries why. Nobody is left to work it out from silence.
Inside two weeks
Benefits
Eight things you get on day one.
The same eight in Amsterdam and Lisbon.Nothing here is discretionary and nothing is a perk you have to ask twice for.
- Salary band, published
- Every advert carries its range. The same band in both cities, adjusted only for local tax.
- Equity in every offer
- Options on a four-year schedule with a one-year cliff, and ten years to exercise them.
- Three days in, two out
- Tuesday to Thursday in the office. Nobody schedules a meeting on the other two.
- Thirty days off
- Plus public holidays where you work, and the week between Christmas and New Year.
- Pension and health cover
- Employer pension contribution and full health insurance in both the Netherlands and Portugal.
- €2,000 a year to learn
- Conferences, courses and books. The budget renews each January and needs no approval under €500.
- Twenty weeks parental leave
- Fully paid, whichever parent you are, with a phased return across the month after it.
- A month in the other city
- Flights and a flat covered, once a year, in whichever office is not your own.
Apply
Send it and we will read it.
A CV or a link is enough —no cover letter, no form with fourteen fields.Every application gets a reply from the hiring manager, including the ones that are a no.