Team Lead Accounting & Reporting

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

The role
As Team Lead Accounting & Reporting NL, you are the financial backbone of our Dutch operations. You lead and guide two experienced GL accountants while working closely with the Senior Manager Accounting & Reporting EMEA. You take ownership of the Dutch accounting & reporting activities, from month-end close and IFRS reporting to tax, audit, and payroll accounting, and serve as the first point of contact for operational and cross-functional questions. This is a hands-on, content-driven role where you combine technical accounting expertise with coordination, stakeholder management, and end-to-end oversight of a production-driven finance environment.

Key Responsibilities
Lead, coordinate and guide the Dutch GL team

• Support Accounting & Reporting activities outside NL but within EMEA, where needed.
• Act as the key point of contact for the Dutch GL accountants and the Dutch A&R activities.
• Guide daily GL activities, supporting team members with their questions and (if needed) escalation topics.
• Work in close cooperation with the Senior Manager A&R EMEA on priorities and workload distribution.
• Handle your own operational accounting activities independently.
• Collaborate closely with Business Control, Operations Control, HR, Payroll, IT, and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to performance management processes: goal setting, mid year review and year end review.

Ensure accurate and timely financial closing & reporting

• Coordinate the Dutch monthly financial closing cycle and ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
• Ensure accounting is compliant with IFRS, group standards, and local statutory requirements.
• Review and/or prepare financial specifications and reconciliations with strong focus on P&L understanding and Balance Sheet accuracy (“no surprises”).
• Understand margin development, added value drivers, operations results, and fixed cost trends.
• Lead, prepare, and/or participate in review calls for Dutch legal entities.
• Provide proactive ad hoc analysis when required.
• Identify and recommend improvements in reporting processes and procedures.

Audit, internal control & compliance

• Act as the primary contact for external audit, internal audit, and internal control activities.
• Align audit planning and execution with external auditors; ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.
• Collaborate with HQ Internal Audit and follow up on audit findings.
• Execute and review quarterly internal control checks.

Tax management & transfer pricing

• Ensure Dutch tax compliance, tax reporting, and tax control execution.
• Support compliance with local tax regulations (e.g., BUA, WKR).

Payroll accounting

• Work closely with the Dutch payroll team.
• Review monthly payroll outcomes and ensure correct accounting treatment, including special entries.

Harmonization, systems & continuous improvement

• Drive harmonization and standardization of processes, procedures, and systems in collaboration with A&R EMEA.
• Participate in cross-country and cross-departmental improvement projects.
• Act as a point of coordination between the Dutch and Spanish GL teams when required.

You bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting.
• 7-10 years of experience in Financial Accounting & Reporting.
• Strong technical accounting background, including IFRS expertise and solid hands-on GL experience.
• Experience in a production/manufacturing environment or strong affinity with production processes (inventory, costing, variances, production orders).
• Able to work operationally while coordinating and guiding a small team.
• Strong affinity with auditing, controls, and compliance.
• Experience interacting with multiple departments and stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical skills and a proactive, independent working style.
• Strong communicator with the ability to switch easily between detail and overview.
• Affinity with SAP / SAP S/4HANA and reporting systems.
• Fluent in English; comfortable in an international environment.

Preferred

• Experience in an international production environment.
• Experience with complex or multinational accounting environments (multiple cost centers, profit centers, segments).
• Knowledge of Dutch tax frameworks.
• Prior experience guiding a team of two or more people.
• Intercultural mindset and experience working with cross-border teams.

What we offer

• A key, visible role in our Dutch organization with real ownership and impact.
• A rich and diverse learning environment: from production-driven accounting to complex global flows
• Close collaboration with colleagues in HQ and across EMEA, including our Spanish GL team.
• A clearly defined growth path toward broader EMEA Accounting & Reporting responsibilities.
• Collaboration and regular interaction with Accounting and reporting owners in other Corbion Entities around the world.
• Hybrid working possibilities (3 days on-site, 2 days from home).
• A well-structured onboarding period including direct handover and shadowing opportunities with the current role holder and the Senior Manager A&R EMEA.
• An environment with stability, challenge, and long-term development potential, ideal for someone who wants to grow steadily into a senior role.

About Corbion

Corbion is the global market leader in lactic acid and its derivatives, and a leading supplier of emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins, and algae ingredients. We use our unique expertise in fermentation and other processes to deliver sustainable solutions for the preservation of food and food production, health, and our planet. For over 100 years, we have been uncompromising in our commitment to safety, quality, innovation and performance. Drawing on our deep application and product knowledge, we work side-by-side with customers to make our cutting-edge technologies work for them. Our solutions help differentiate products in markets such as food, home & personal care, animal nutrition, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and bioplastics. In 2024, Corbion generated annual sales of €1,288.1 million and had a workforce of 2,399 FTE. Corbion is listed on Euronext Amsterdam. For more information: www.corbion.com

Corbion is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace.  All applicants will be considered equally.

Corbion does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. All candidates must be submitted by approved Corbion vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Talent Acquisition team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Corbion Talent Acquisition team and such candidate was submitted to the Corbion Talent Acquisition Team.