Job Summary: 

The Regional Financial Controller (Europe) acts as the financial leader for the European market. This role is responsible for financial governance, performance management, and strategic financial planning across the region.

The position reports to the VP Finance (Global) and with a dotted line to Regional GM (Europe), ensuring strong alignment between global financial standards and regional business execution.

This role combines hands-on financial control with forward-looking financial analytics, supporting scalable growth and long-term value creation in the EU market.

Job Expectations

1. Regional Financial Leadership 

• Act as the finance lead for Europe, partnering closely with the Regional GM & Leadership team
• Provide strategic financial guidance on growth initiatives, investments, and market expansion
• Represent Finance in regional leadership discussions and annual planning cycles with HQ
• Translate global financial strategy into regional execution

2. Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning for the European region
• Own P&L performance, variance analysis, and actionable insights
• Drive financial discipline and KPI tracking across markets
• Support scenario planning and investment prioritization

3. Financial Analytics & Data Foundation

• Build and scale a robust financial data infrastructure to support EU growth plans
• Develop advanced financial analytics and dashboards for decision-making
• Identify trends in customer behavior, pricing, and category performance
• Partner with data and commercial teams to enhance profitability insights

4. Controllership & Compliance

• Ensure accurate financial reporting, compliance, and adherence to global policies
• Manage the quarterly (rolling 90 days) forecasting process for EU, and aligns with global
• Oversee internal controls, audit processes, and risk management
• Manage local statutory requirements across European entities
• Act as a key interface with global finance, tax, and audit teams

5. Business Partnering

• Serve as a trusted advisor to regional commercial, operations, and supply chain teams
• Support pricing strategies, promotions, and margin optimization
• Drive cost efficiency initiatives and operational improvements
• Align financial goals with commercial execution

6. Team Leadership (Future Scope)

• Build and lead a regional finance team as the organization scales (e.g. Account)
• Develop finance capabilities in analytics, planning, and controllership

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including:
• • Financial planning & analysis (FP&A)
  • Controllership / Big Four public accounting exposure
  • Business partnering in commercial environments
• Experience in consumables industries strongly preferred like Grocery, Health & Wellness, or Beauty / Personal care.
• Prior experience in regional or multi-country roles (Europe preferred).
• Experience with Adaptive Planning (FP&A software), SAP (ERP), Tableau (BI tool) is a strong plus.
• Experience in high-growth or e-commerce environments is a strong plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong financial acumen with strategic mindset
• Ability to operate as a “CFO” in a regional setup
• Advanced analytical and data-driven decision-making skills
• Strong stakeholder management across global and regional leadership
• Ability to balance hands-on execution with strategic leadership

Education

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• MBA, CPA, ACA, or equivalent preferred

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Finance Manager

About NLC

NLC Health Ventures is a leading healthtech and biotech venture builder and fund manager based in Amsterdam. We build and scale ventures from breakthrough science and invest across stages from pre-seed to Series C.

With around 40 professionals and €50M+ in assets under management, we operate across Europe and North America. We currently manage four funds and are actively raising our fifth, with the ambition to launch new funds every 2–3 years.

Our culture is defined by Together, Open, Decisive, Optimistic (TODO)—a high-performance, low-ego environment where ownership, speed, and impact matter more than hierarchy.

The Role

As Finance Manager (Individual Contributor), you will play a central role in running and scaling NLC’s finance function.

You’ll operate at the intersection of accounting, financial control, and decision support, acting as the link between day-to-day financial operations and senior leadership. Working in a lean team (CFO, Head of Finance, Finance Manager, Financial Administrator), you will take ownership of core finance processes while helping professionalize and scale the function.

This is a hands-on role with significant exposure to leadership, investors, and a complex multi-entity structure spanning venture building and fund management.

Why This Role Is Unique

• High ownership: You will effectively run the day-to-day finance function
• Complex environment: Multi-entity structure across ventures and funds
• Direct exposure: Work closely with the CFO, leadership, and external stakeholders
• Career trajectory: Designed as a pathway toward Head of Finance / CFO roles
• Real impact: Your work directly supports fundraising, investor reporting, and strategic decisions

Key Responsibilities

Financial Management & Control

• Lead day-to-day finance operations across multiple entities
• Own the month-end close process (accruals, provisions, intercompany, reconciliations)
• Review and ensure the quality of all accounting outputs (AP, AR, bank, fixed assets)
• Prepare and review management reporting, financial statements, and variance analyses
• Maintain strong financial controls, documentation, and audit readiness
• Act as primary contact for external accountants, auditors, and advisors

Reporting, Analysis & Decision Support

• Deliver clear, structured financial insights to support leadership decisions
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Build high-quality Excel models and PowerPoint materials for internal and external use
• Improve reporting through automation and tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL-based environments)
• Translate complex data into concise, executive-ready outputs

Payroll & HR Finance Oversight

• Oversee outsourced payroll providers (NL and international platforms)
• Review payroll inputs/outputs for accuracy and compliance
• Coordinate payroll processes with HR and leadership
• Support headcount reporting, compensation analysis, and workforce cost tracking

Team Coordination & Process Improvement

• Act as the functional bridge between the Financial Administrator and senior finance leadership
• Review work, set priorities, and ensure high-quality, timely outputs
• Drive continuous improvement of processes, templates, and workflows
• Contribute to building a high-performance, detail-driven finance culture

Who You Are

• 4–7 years of experience in Big 4 Transaction Services, Deals, Consulting, or similar high-performance environments
• Strong foundation in financial accounting, reporting, and control
• Highly detail-oriented, structured, and quality-driven
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; able to produce polished, decision-ready outputs
• Experience with or strong interest in analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL)
• Comfortable combining hands-on execution with review and coordination
• Able to operate under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and meet tight deadlines
• Strong communicator with the ability to work with senior stakeholders and external parties
• Dutch language skills are a plus

What We Offer

• Career acceleration: A clear pathway toward Head of Finance / CFO roles
• High-impact role: Direct involvement in investor reporting, fundraising, and strategic initiatives
• Dynamic environment: Fast-paced, high-expectation setting with real ownership
• Compensation: Competitive salary with equity participation
• Meaningful work: Contribute to scaling ventures that bring life-changing healthcare innovations to patients

Diversity & Inclusion

At NLC, we believe diverse perspectives drive better outcomes. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

Strategic Growth Manager, Agentic Commerce

Agentic Commerce is the most significant shift in digital payments since mobile. We are moving from a world where humans click "buy" to a world where AI agents negotiate, book, and transact on our behalf.

We are looking for a strategic commercial operator to help define and execute Adyen’s Go-to-Market strategy for this emerging channel. You will not just be selling a product, you will be building the playbook for how the world’s largest enterprises accept payments from AI agents.

This is a rare opportunity to sit at the intersection of Commercial GTM Strategy, Account Management, and Product. You will work closely with Adyen’s leadership to take our "Universal Translator" strategy to the market.

What you’ll do

• Define the Playbook: You will take our Agentic Commerce offering from "Pilot" to "Scale." This means identifying the right first-mover merchants, structuring the commercial approach, and creating the feedback loop between the market and our Product team.
• Consult, Don’t Just Sell: You will act as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders at our largest merchants, helping them navigate the hype, understand the infrastructure risks (fraud, identity), and architect their data feeds for the agentic economy.
• Orchestrate the Ecosystem: You will be the commercial bridge between our merchants and the major AI platforms (OpenAI, Google, etc.), ensuring Adyen remains the neutral connector in a fragmented ecosystem.
• Enable the Organization: You will turn your learnings into a GTM engine, collaborating with marketing to train our wider Sales and Account Management teams to speak fluently about tokens, LLMs, and agentic protocols.
• Protect the Merchant: You will champion our "Merchant-First" principles, ensuring that as protocols evolve, they prioritize merchant control, data privacy, and liability protection.
• The Regulatory Architect: You will navigate the unique complexity of the European landscape. You will become the subject matter expert on how Agentic Commerce intersects with PSD2, SCA, and GDPR, turning regulatory compliance into a competitive moat for our merchants.
• Cross-Border Complexity: You will help global merchants solve the "fragmentation" problem, ensuring their agentic flows work seamlessly across borders, currencies, and local payment methods.

Who you are

• Experience: 6-8 years of experience in commercial-facing or GTM strategy roles. Previous experience in payments or financial technology is a plus
• A Strategic Builder: You are comfortable working with ambiguity. You don't need a finished brochure to have a commercial conversation; you can co-create a solution with a client.
• Commercially Sharp: You have a track record of navigating complex enterprise organizations and driving strategic initiatives that result in real volume, not just press releases.
• Technically Fluent: You can explain the difference between a Network Token and a Virtual Card to a CFO, and debate API schemas with a Product Manager. You understand the nuances of the payments stack.
• Curious about AI infrastructure. You are not an ML engineer, but you follow how agentic systems are evolving - agentic frameworks, how AI agents make decisions and initiate transactions. Familiarity with emerging agent protocols and how model providers are approaching commerce is a plus. 
• Anti-Hype: You cut through the noise. You focus on solving real operational problems (inventory visibility, authentication, liability) rather than selling science fiction.
• Collaborative: You thrive in a flat structure. You will be working closely across Commercial, Product, Legal, and Partnerships teams to clear hurdles, resolve challenges in real-time.

Why now?

Agentic commerce is in its infrastructure phase. The protocols, standards, and commercial models are being written and tested right now. In this role, you won't be executing an established playbook, you will be authoring it. Adyen processes payments for many of the world's largest, most sophisticated enterprises, which means the decisions we make here will shape how AI-initiated transactions work at scale, not just in theory.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Minimum of 32 hours per week

Avantium is an innovation-driven pioneer in the emerging industry of renewable and sustainable chemistry. We offer unique technological solutions to reduce plastic waste, new chemical processes for the bio-based economy and R&D equipment and services to accelerate the development of new catalytic processes.

Most of the materials and chemicals used in modern daily life – such as plastics, packaging, furniture and clothing – are based on fossil resources like oil, gas and coal. Changing this paradigm is an ambitious goal but also a promise for a better future. This is why we at Avantium work on developing practical solutions to accelerate the transition to a fossil-free world. We do this by focusing on innovative plant-based chemicals and materials as well as aiming to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) to a valuable resource for sustainable products. Within Avantium, Volta Technology is a platform technology that uses electrochemistry to convert CO₂ to high value chemical building blocks and polymers.

Avantium intends to spin out Volta Technology into a new business entity, in which Avantium will remain a shareholder. This position will form part of the new Volta Technology company and not of Avantium N.V.

We are currently seeking a Project Controller who would like to join our team in our journey of scaling up and commercializing this sustainable and impact-full technology. The Project Controller supports the CFO and will play a critical role in supporting the financial and operational success of our projects. You act as the financial partner to Project Managers, ensuring accurate budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis. You will help safeguard project profitability, control risks, and ensure that projects are delivered within scope, time, and budget. Scope of work entails subsidies, costs and capital expenditures.

Key Responsibilities

• Budgeting & Forecasting:
  Develop, maintain, and monitor project budgets; prepare detailed financial forecasts and variance analyses.
• Financial Reporting:
  Provide timely and accurate project financial reports, including cost tracking and progress reporting. Financial reporting to subsidy authorities in line with the subsidy requirements.
• Performance Monitoring:
  Analyse project KPI’s, highlight deviations, and support corrective actions to ensure project targets are met.
• Cost Control:
  Track and validate project; ensure compliance with internal policies, EU and national subsidies and contractual agreements on expenditures.
• Risk & Opportunity Management:
  Identify financial risks and opportunities within projects and support mitigation or improvement plans.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:
  Act as a financial advisor to the CFO and the Project Managers; facilitate clear communication and decision-making.
• Process Improvement:
  Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within financial and project control processes.

What do you bring

The ideal candidate excels in a dynamic, innovative, and international setting. You can work independently and you are self-reliant as you will manage a broad range of responsibilities. A proactive, flexible, and service-minded attitude is essential, as is the ability to work independently and support your main stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications & skills

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in project controlling, project accounting, financial analysis, or similar roles.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Proficiency in financial systems and tools (e.g., ERP systems, Excel, Power BI).
• Strong communication abilities and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and manage deadlines.
• Some basic understanding of project management
• Experience in financial reporting for European and Dutch subsidies is a pre.
• Excellent command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written (as you have to deal with Dutch subsidies).

What We Offer

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth within finance and project management.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Interested?

If this description matches your skills or interest, we welcome your application via the link provided. The selection process includes interviews starting from May 1st. Shortlisted candidates will be approached accordingly. To ensure a fair and efficient process, we kindly ask candidates not to contact us directly.