Country Finance Lead

We’re looking for a finance expert with in-depth experience of the Belgian market to lead a talented team. Ready to take on this exciting challenge?

With around 100 million active users in 24 countries, here at Just Eat Takeaway.com, we’re a global food tech company, connecting our customers from Bucharest to Brisbane with delicious dishes.

Handling millions of orders across our markets every day, we need a world-class Finance department to handle everything from accounting and budgets to forecasts.

As the Country Finance Lead: Belgium, you will manage all aspects of controlling and reporting for the local market – including the platform entity, logistics and intermediate holding entity. That means ensuring the provision of necessary information and input to the Group Accounting and Controlling teams, connecting the Regional Financial Director and local Country Manager.

Managing the input from the FD, you will implement their targets on a local level, ensuring that budgets, forecasts and any other targets are reflected in the forecasting system and reported back to the group in a timely manner. You’re also able to support the Shared Service Center (SSC) team, to ensure that all activities are done in accordance with Group IFRS and local GAAP requirements.

In this wide-ranging role, you will also be responsible for:

• Leading the country finance team for Belgium, overseeing people in a variety of roles that can range from performance analysis and advice to tax support
• Handling local statutory accounts & signing off the local P&L and BL reconciliations, as well as providing an accurate reflection of our performance in Belgium
• Ensuring high quality and compliance from a financial perspective for the local legal entity
• Resolving any accounting or reporting issues and escalating any issues to the regional FD when necessary
• Signing off on the monthly, quarterly and annual numbers & all monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting the Country Manager and local management team by providing them with regular performance and financial insights
• Engaging with central finance teams and regional FD when relevant, using their guidance to produce a bottom-up budget and forecast plus commentary
• Acting as a local business partner, providing advice and guidance to the local management team
• Managing the Risk register, supporting internal audits and the Control Framework, working in a matrix with Group Internal Audit and Group Controlling to achieve this
• Working in partnership with the group finance systems team to ensure that the ERP and any other underlying accounting packages used are used appropriately

Here are the skills and experience we need from you:

• In-depth experience with the Belgian market
• Good knowledge of various tools, namely ERP, Onestream, Anaplan and Excel
• Experience with Workday is an advantage
• Natural leadership skills and the ability to balance differing stakeholder interests
• Willing to occasionally travel to our Amsterdam HQ
• Fluent French and/or Dutch and English (written & spoken) and excellent communication skills

Here at Just Eat Takeaway.com, we offer our colleagues the chance to develop and grow alongside top talent in one of the world’s leading food delivery companies. By providing a creative, dynamic and innovative environment, we empower our people and give them the ingredients for success.

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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 Takeaway.com. 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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