Financial Operations Specialist, Ecochain

• Full-cycle ownership: Proven track record in bookkeeping, financial administration, or financial operations where you've owned a complete financial administration alongside an external accountant
• Accounting know-how: Solid understanding of general ledger mechanics, double-entry bookkeeping, accruals, and reconciliations
• Collections capability: You chase money by picking up the phone, and you keep the relationship intact while you do it
• Tech-savvy: Comfortable with cloud accounting platforms (e.g. Exact, AFAS, NetSuite) and Excel
• Languages: Fluent in English and Dutch, written and spoken—including phoning a customer about money in either
• Self-starter mentality: You manage your own schedule and follow up on details independently

Desirable

• As our Senior Financial Operations Specialist, you'll own the operational backbone of our financial administration—accounts receivable, the vendor invoice pipeline, and a clean, on-time month-end close.
• Reporting directly to our Financial Controller, you won't be assisting someone else's process. You'll own a domain outright, and your Controller will review your work rather than rebuild it
• This is a deliberately designed 24-hour role. Not a full-time job squeezed into part-time pay, and not a stopgap—a permanent, well-organised position for someone who wants to do one thing properly rather than five things partially
• Own accounts receivable end-to-end—customer billing, contract invoicing, credit management, and the AR aging overview
• Run collections independently, following up past-due balances with a friendly, professional approach and resolving billing queries yourself
• Manage the accounts payable pipeline—intake, approval routing, and submission of vendor invoices to our external accountant
• Prepare weekly payment batches for approval, maintaining continuous oversight of what's unpaid
• Code invoices accurately to the correct general ledger accounts and cost centres
• Prepare routine monthly journal entries (accruals and revenue allocations) and perform balance-sheet reconciliations
• Review P&L cost and revenue lines to verify correct period allocation
• Keep the administration audit-ready as a matter of course, and support the Financial Controller on ad-hoc projects and process improvements
• Reports to: Financial Controller
• Team: Finance (working closely with our external accountant, Customer Success, and Sales)
• Hours: 24 per week—three full days, or spread across four or five. You choose the pattern

• Submit your application including your Resume/CV and a Cover Letter. We read the cover letter first, and we'd love for you to answer three quick questions directly:
• The full cycle you've owned: Walk us from a customer signing to the accountant filing. Be specific about where your responsibility started and stopped
• A balance you recovered: Tell us about a past-due balance you recovered from an unhappy customer. What did you say, and what happened to the relationship afterwards?
• Managing a 24-hour week: How do you organize your work across 24 hours so that routine deadlines (like month-end or payment runs) are met smoothly without urgent tasks getting stuck on days you're off?
• Three short paragraphs are plenty. Specific beats polished—we'd rather read one real story than three pages of adjectives
• Interview Process
• We move quickly for the right candidate:
• Screening Interview – Financial Controller (30 min): Culture fit, ownership experience, motivation, and how a 24-hour week fits your life
• Working Interview – Financial Controller (90 min): A live case using real, anonymised material from our own administration, plus a short take-home assignment (capped at 3 hours, and paid)
• Final Interview – CEO (30 min): Vision alignment, long-term commitment