Junior Controller

Job description

We're looking for a sharp and ambitious Junior Controller to join our Finance team in Rotterdam. Monday Merch is a fast-growing scale-up providing customers worldwide with a full-service merchandise solution.You turn our financial data into clear business insights for the founders and department heads, while helping ensure the underlying finance operations run accurately and on time. Most of our 10-person Finance team works remotely. You will be our on-site finance point of contact in Rotterdam and work closely with our remote Head of Finance and founders.

Your Goal

Own our monthly management reporting, keep our forecasts current and help the founders and department heads make better decisions with reliable financial insights. Alongside this, you help ensure our month-end close and daily finance operations run accurately and on time.

Key responsibilities

Own our monthly business reporting and help work on the daily financials behind it. We handle around 16,000 customer invoices and 16,000 supplier bills a year, in several currencies, across Exact Online, Quickbooks, multiple banks, own Odoo ERP, and different entities (NL and US).

• Keep our KPIs up to date, identify important movements and explain what drives them including margin, cost per order, departmental costs and profitability by market.

• Prepare and deliver the monthly management reporting pack by the 10th of each month, including accurate figures, clear charts and a concise explanation of the key developments.

• Build and maintain our P&L and cash-flow forecasts, including the assumptions behind them. Update these throughout the year and use them to model scenarios such as investing in a new machine, entering a new market or changing our prices.

• Provide founders and department heads with clear, reliable answers to financial questions, both during and between reporting cycles.

• Take care of finance-related matters that require a local presence in Rotterdam, such as contact with the bank, the Chamber of Commerce and the Dutch tax authorities.

• Over time, prepare our quarterly VAT returns (NL, UK and OSS) and the intra-EU statistics, together with our Head of Finance and our accountant.

• Help with the monthly close with our Head of Finance and rest of the team and help with checks where needed.

• Process bank statements and match incoming and outgoing payments in Exact Online and Odoo, ensuring there is no outstanding backlog at month-end.

• Improve and automate repetitive finance processes together with our Head of Finance AI & Processes, including statement processing, payment matching and recurring reporting. We would rather you rebuild a process than repeat it.

• Perform and improve key financial controls, including payment-run checks, write-off rules and approval procedures.

Why Monday Merch?

• Rapid growth opportunities in a fast-paced scale-up.

• We have a Head of Finance AI and Processes, who used to be our Head of Finance. Automating finance work here is a real mandate, not a side project.

• A direct line to the founders from your first day.

• Work from our beautiful office in the city centre of Rotterdam (team of 45).

• Work with great tools (including a brand new MacBook) and bright, hard-working people.

• Yearly Workation with the team.

• Free lunch at the office. 

• Be part of a fun, ambitious, international team, with regular social events.

What do we offer? 

• A clear path to becoming a Controller, with a formal performance, title and salary review after 12 months.

• A gross monthly salary of €3,200–€3,800, depending on your experience (excluding 8% holiday allowance). 

• 23 paid days off per year.

• A full-time, office-based position of 40 hours per week at our office in Rotterdam city centre. 

What you’ll bring

• Thrive in a fast-paced, fast-growing and international scale-up environment.

• Take ownership, have the ambition to grow and are ready for the next step in your finance career.

• Use AI tools every day and look for ways to automate your own work.

• Learn quickly. We value your ability to understand new systems and processes more than the exact number of years on your CV.

• Are comfortable owning real work early, and ask when you are stuck.

• Work accurately and have a sharp eye for figures that do not add up.

• Are strong with Excel/Google Sheets. Experience with Exact Online or Odoo is a plus, not a must.

• Know the basics: bookings, reconciliations, VAT, and you know your way around a balance sheet.

• Are fluent in English.

• Have 1–3 years of relevant experience in finance, financial administration or accountancy, and an HBO or university degree in Finance, Business Economics, Accountancy or a related field.