Lead Accountant

**Your mission**:
As a Lead Accountant, you will take responsibility for the financial processes of our entities in Belgium and the Netherlands. You are a key player in ensuring efficient and reliable accounting processes while elevating our financial strategy to the next level. Your hands-on mentality, expertise, and passion for numbers will drive our shared success.

**Your Key Responsibilities**:

- ** International-Level Accounting**:
Take charge of and oversee the financial accounting, including handling accounts payable and receivable for our entities in Belgium and the Netherlands. This includes performing daily bookings, such as bank transactions.
- ** Preparing Annual Financial Statements**:
Prepare annual financial statements in coordination with the tax advisor and the Headquarter Accountant, ensuring compliance with all local regulations.
- ** Process Management and Optimization**:
Develop and implement efficient processes, e.g., for accounts payable and receivable workflows, to ensure high-quality data.
- ** Key Point of Contact**:
Act as the interface for external partners, such as tax advisors, and internal departments, particularly Group Controlling and Group Accounting.
- ** Tax Advisor Transition** _(Not to be included in the job posting)_:
Coordinate and oversee the transition of our tax advisor in the Netherlands - a project with significant scope for shaping outcomes.
- ** Compliance and Analysis** _(Optional - decide if this should be included)_:
Ensure compliance with legal and tax requirements and support financial analyses and reporting.

**What you need to succeed**:

- Solid knowledge of accounting principles and experience in financial accounting.
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, or a comparable qualification (e.g., Financial Accountant; local Dutch certifications are a plus).
- Desirable knowledge of tax and legal frameworks in the Netherlands and Belgium.
- Strong communication skills, both internally and externally.
- Entrepreneurial mindset and a pronounced start-up mentality - you thrive in a dynamic environment and want to shape the future actively.
- A structured and solution-oriented work style, paired with a keen eye for detail.

**Why ITA logistics group?**:

- More than 20 years of business experience meets start-up mentality. We know how it works, but we don't want to rest on our laurels. You will find the self-confidence of an established company and the flexibility of a dynamic start-up.
- Possibility to work at one of our seven locations in Europe on a temporary basis by arrangement.
- You will work in a multicultural team and a family working atmosphere.
- People first We take social responsibility seriously and look out for each other. This is not just a slogan on the wall, we actually live it. Time tracking and overtime reduction are just as much a part of it as support from a network of external counselling centres when life gets out of hand.
- You will have a challenging and varied job where you can fully contribute your strengths and personality.
- You will receive a comprehensive training and a motivated team that will always offer you support.
- You can find a complete overview of our benefits on our career page.

**Your way to us**:
You feel addressed and are interested in joining our team as Lead Accountant (d/f/m) in beautiful Naarden?

**About us**:
As a software company, we have been offering our B2B customers a transparent overview of the variety of services and shipping conditions of courier, express and parcel services as well as the possibility of booking and smooth shipping processing with our LetMeShip shipping platform for over 20 years. Customer orientation, know-how and commitment are what set us apart. As an expanding company with currently approx. 100 employees in 7 European countries, we create competitive advantages in the form of cost and time savings.