Senior Financial Accountant

As a Senior Financial Accountant at Planon, you are responsible for and take ownership for accurate and timely financial reporting within a dynamic and international environment. In addition to this, you will be in the lead for execution and monitoring of the group’s tax processes across multiple jurisdictions.

You play a key role in the monthly closing process, financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with local regulations and group standards. This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on execution, control, and continuous improvement. You not only deliver but also review, challenge, and improve financial processes, controls, and outputs. You will work closely with your colleagues in the Accounting & Control team and external advisors to ensure timely and accurate tax compliance, while supporting tax reporting and documentation activities.

What will you do?

Accounting & Closing

• Execute monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing activities, including revenue recognition.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring financial data is complete, accurate, and compliant with group standards.
• Prepare monthly financial results and provide accurate financial data for group reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Analyze financial variances and provide relevant insights to management.
• Support statutory and internal audits and ensure financial transactions and controls are correctly performed and documented in a timely manner.

Tax Compliance & Filings

• Act as the first point of contact for operational tax matters and ensure local tax filing obligations and deadlines are met.

Process Improvement

• Identify and support improvements in accounting processes, controls, standardization, and efficiency, including the use of AI and other innovations.

Profile

Our ideal candidate combines a theoretical financial background with strong affinity with AI:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Relevant experience in Finance and/or Tax
• Affinity with technology, automation, and AI-driven tools within finance operations
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles (Dutch GAAP; IFRS is a plus)
• Affinity with or experience in SaaS and services-based business models is a plus.
• Proactive, communicative, and solution-oriented mindset.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage.

We Offer

We offer a healthy work-life balance with the flexibility of hybrid working, in a collaborative and learning-oriented environment with opportunities for continuous development. We put our people at the heart of our company and create an inspiring and safe environment that allows everyone to grow, innovate, and excel. You will work on challenging projects with leading clients, gaining valuable experience.

Salary range: EUR 4,000 - EUR 6,000 gross per month, depending on experience. This range reflects a good faith estimate of the expected compensation for this role, based on objective, role-related criteria. The total compensation package includes variable compensation and additional benefits.

Planon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable law.

About the Company

Planon is a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation, and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes.

At Schneider Electric and Planon, we're building the future together. As a new colleague, you will be joining a partnership that's redefining what smart buildings can do. Our solutions bridge the gap between building systems (OT) and business processes (IT), transforming data into clear, actionable insights. This is where you come in: helping our customers to create buildings that drive innovation, operational efficiency, and sustainability.

Together, we empower our customers to lead and inspire, crafting spaces that are efficient, optimized, and have a positive impact on both our users’ lives and our planet.

Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands

Work Location Type: Hybrid

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