Head of Finance

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• Lead the finance function and establish clear priorities, responsibilities, and performance standards for the team.
• Own the monthly financial reporting cycle, management accounts, variance analysis, and budget control.
• Ensure an accurate, complete, and timely month-end close, supported by robust financial checks and internal controls.
• Oversee the preparation of annual accounts, statutory reporting, and audit processes, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting and regulatory requirements.
• Own cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and financial planning to support the company's liquidity and growth.
• Partner with the CFO on financial strategy, business planning, risk management, and other strategic initiatives.

• Develop and embed strong business control capabilities within the finance team, while personally leading key analyses and acting as a hands-on business controller.
• Take ownership of profitability analysis across customers, routes, products, services, and other relevant business segments.
• Monitor and challenge revenue, gross margin, contribution margin, EBITDA, and operational cost drivers.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning, ensuring financial plans reflect operational realities and commercial objectives.
• Develop financial models and business cases to support pricing decisions, customer profitability, investments, resource allocation, and cost optimisation.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear recommendations for the Leadership Team and relevant business stakeholders.
• Establish and improve KPIs, performance dashboards, and reporting that connect operational activity to financial outcomes.
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and performance deviations, working with business leaders to agree and implement corrective actions.
• Build a culture of accountability in which teams understand the financial impact of their decisions and take ownership of business performance.

• Define and drive the finance function's AI and automation agenda, identifying opportunities to improve productivity, scalability, accuracy, and control.
• Apply AI practically across finance workflows, with a particular focus on procure-to-pay (P2P), accounts payable, invoice processing, transaction coding, reconciliations, financial checks, and month-end close.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive manual activities, streamline approval workflows, reduce processing times, and improve the quality of financial data.
• Evaluate, test, and implement AI-enabled tools and solutions that deliver measurable business value, working with internal stakeholders and external providers where appropriate.
• Redesign finance processes to take advantage of automation and AI, rather than simply automating inefficient existing workflows.
• Establish appropriate controls around AI usage, including data quality, access rights, confidentiality, human review, auditability, and compliance.
• Track the impact of automation initiatives through measurable outcomes such as time saved, cost per transaction, processing accuracy, exception rates, and close-cycle duration.
• Promote an AI-first mindset within the finance team, ensuring colleagues actively identify and adopt new ways of working.

• Own and continuously improve the end-to-end finance operating model, ensuring processes remain efficient and scalable as the business grows.
• Lead the ongoing optimisation and development of NetSuite, improving system configuration, data integrity, workflows, reporting, and financial controls.
• Improve the integration of financial and operational data to create a reliable source of truth for management reporting and decision-making.
• Develop standard operating procedures and internal controls that support consistent execution, reduce errors, and strengthen the audit trail.
• Drive improvements across accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, reconciliations, and other core finance processes.
• Work with relevant teams to improve master data quality, transaction completeness, and the reliability of financial reporting.
• Support the development of business intelligence capabilities and self-service reporting to improve visibility across the organisation.

• Lead, coach, and develop the finance team, creating a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Build the team's technical finance, commercial analysis, business control, data, and AI capabilities.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, objectives, and development plans aligned with the evolving needs of the business.
• Move the team towards a proactive business partnering model, with less time spent on manual processing and more focus on analysis, insight, and value creation.
• Identify capability gaps and implement practical solutions through coaching, training, process redesign, and recruitment where needed.
• Set a strong example by combining strategic leadership with hands-on problem-solving and execution.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Relevant senior finance experience, ideally in a high-growth, international, technology-enabled, or scale-up environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading a finance function or a substantial part of one, with the ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on.
• Strong financial accounting knowledge, including month-end close, management reporting, annual accounts, audit, and internal controls.
• Proven business control and commercial finance experience, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, financial modelling, and KPI development.
• Strong practical experience using AI and automation to improve finance processes, with the ability to identify use cases, implement solutions, and measure results.
• Understanding of procure-to-pay and other transactional finance workflows, including opportunities for automation and improved controls.
• Experience with ERP systems, ideally NetSuite, and a strong understanding of financial data flows and system controls.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with business intelligence, data analysis, or reporting tools.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear business recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively and influence senior decision-makers.
• Experience building, coaching, and developing a finance team, including strengthening its commercial and analytical capabilities.
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.
• A proactive, pragmatic, and commercially minded approach, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.
• A continuous improvement mindset and genuine enthusiasm for using technology to build a more efficient, insightful, and scalable finance function.

Why us?

• Thinking about the future? We contribute 2.5% towards your pension.
• Ready for a break? Enjoy 25 vacation days per year, plus 8% holiday allowance. Don't forget to experience our service yourself. Use our transfers twice a year and experience first-hand what we offer our clients. Also, enjoy employee discounts on hotel stays. 
• However you commute: Travel by train with an NS Business Card, or drive with travel expenses covered and parking available at the office.
• Fancy a new bike? Make use of our bike lease option for private use.
• Flexibility matters: Work from home up to 2 days per week, with the possibility to work from abroad for up to 2 weeks.
• Coffee, matcha or something healthy? Enjoy Starbucks coffee, matcha, fresh fruit and employee meal discounts at the office.
• Friday plans sorted: Join the team for our Friday borrels.           

About us

Get-e is a fast-growing B2B travel tech company based in Amsterdam, building a fully managed 24/7 platform that powers airport transfers and A-to-B travel worldwide. Through a strong network of local partners, our service operates in 110+ countries across 900+ airports and destinations.

We are an international team with 30+ nationalities, working together in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where ideas move quickly and ownership is real.

We work with some of the biggest names in travel, including 70+ airlines and leading global brands, and we are continuing to scale quickly. Recently, we expanded into hotel accommodation for airline crew, opening up an exciting new growth chapter.

At Get-e, you will be working at the intersection of travel, technology, and global operations across three key areas:

1. Airlines: Delivering end-to-end solutions for crew transport and accommodation, from sourcing partners to automating complex operations, all supported by our 24/7 Global Operations Centre in Amsterdam.
2. Assistance Companies: Enabling critical travel logistics, supporting the safe repatriation of travelers and movement of medical professionals.
3. Travel Partnerships: Powering transfer solutions behind major global brands like Booking.com, Amadeus, Visa, and Mastercard.

If you enjoy solving complex challenges, working in a fast-scaling environment, and building products used around the world, you will fit right in.