Financial Accountant

Overview:

Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high performance scientific instruments and high value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and pharma applications, in microscopy and nanoanalysis, as well as in industrial applications. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics research, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, functional structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics.

Today, worldwide more than 9700 employees are working on this permanent challenge at over 100 locations. Bruker continues to build upon its extensive range of products and solutions, its broad base of installed systems and a strong reputation among its customers. Being one of the world's leading analytical instrumentation companies, Bruker is strongly committed to further fully meet its customers’ needs as well as to continue to develop state-of-the-art technologies and innovative solutions for today's analytical questions.

Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable

• Coordination and oversight with Shared Service Center (BSC) for transactional processing.
• Check completeness of invoicing
• Review and approve AP invoices (correct coding, entity, etc.) in SAP
• Responsible for AR duties location Enschede (order registration, send order confirmations to customers, timely billing)

Preparation of Balance Sheet Reconciliations:

• Safekeeping of Company Assets (Fixed Assets & Inventory Counts)
• Prepare Monthly Accruals
• Reconciliation & Specification Balance Sheet Accounts
• Monthly Reports

Debt collections:

• Support BSC AR Team (dunning and ad hoc requests)

Tax and Insurances

• Support on collecting data for management of insurances of the Dutch entities
• Preparing VAT reporting and related reporting such as ICL & Intrastat
• Taking care of timely registration and payment of VAT, Corporate Income Tax, Wage Tax and Social Securities
• Preparing and timely filing of all CBS and related reporting

Bank Processing:

• Cash Management
• Bank Guarantees

Payroll Administration:

• Maintain local Employee Data Base
• Prepare monthly payroll mutations file in cooperation with BSC EMEA HR based in Poland
• Review payslips prepared by the external payroll provider

Inventory:

• Support inventory counts various divisions
• Prepare journal entries for disposals/additions

Support on:

• Month-end & Year-end Closing Reporting
• Tax and Insurances
• Internal controls & SOX
• Annual Statements and Audits
• Travel Expenses, Sales Commissions, Other Reimbursements
• Budget and Forecast Process
• Company Car Administration (e.g. contracts new hires, contract renewals)
• VAT-Reporting
• Other Operational reports as needed
  
  

Location:

The position is based at our Leiderdorp office in the Netherlands. Travel to the other Bruker Netherland B.V. locations in the Netherlands may on occasion occur. Residence within a reasonable commuting. Working remotely for a couple of days a week can be discussed, preferably work is done at the office.

• Employee is expected to maintain professional knowledge to an acceptable level as required for this position
• Employee is expected to have a flexible hands-on mentality and work attitude in relation to his work and also related to tasks that do not belong to the primary Financial Accountant tasks (e.g. payroll and treasury activities and projects)
• Educated at HEAO/HBO level or acquired through relevant working experience
• Experience within an international, financially and result driven orientated work environment
• Written and verbal proficiency in English and Dutch is a must
• Experience with SAP (FICO, S4H) and strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience with consolidation and reporting systems such as BPC is considered a strong plus
• Knowledge of US GAAP
• Flexible mentality with good social and communication skills
• Customer focus and profit oriented
• Willing to take initiative and establish clear priorities
• Able to work independently and under pressure, able to meet tight deadlines
• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Excellent team working skills
• Ability to work cross functionally with all levels of the organization
• Proven ability to work with professional discretion and confidential information