Finance Assistant
About Studyportals
Studyportals is the world’s largest educational search platform, helping students make informed study choices across borders. Our mission is to bring transparency and reliability to international higher education. By understanding the full student journey, we’re building a platform that is valuable to students and agile to the demands of international education.
Every month, our websites receive over three million visits from students around the world, making us the most popular study choice platform worldwide.
About the role
As our new Finance Assistant, you will support the Finance team in Eindhoven and take ownership of the day-to-day accounts payable activities. You enjoy working in a dynamic, international environment and like being the go-to person for colleagues with finance-related questions.
With a strong eye for detail and a hands-on mindset, you help ensure our financial processes run smoothly and are continuously improved.
Responsibilities
- Process purchase invoices and coordinate approvals with relevant budget holders
- Manage day-to-day accounts payable activities, including AP inbox management and handling colleague requests
- Process and reconcile company credit card transactions
- Process employee expense claims
- Maintain and process financial records in our accounting system
- Reconcile bank transactions with accounting records
Requirements
- Experience working with an accounting system (preferably Twinfield)
- Experience supporting or participating in a finance or accounting system migration is a plus, not a requirement
- High level of verbal and written communication skills; fluent in English (Dutch is a plus)
- Hands-on, proactive, and detail-oriented
- Flexible and able to adapt quickly to changing situations
- Trustworthy, discreet, and reliable
- Strong planning and time-management skills
- Available for 40 hours per week
Benefits
- Competitive salary, including a bonus scheme
- Annual personal development budget because personal growth is key
- Hybrid working model: up to 3 days per week remote, including a remote working allowance
- 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) and you have the flexibility to take your holidays whenever you want (e.g., be off on Chinese New Year instead of King’s Day)
- Possibility to work from abroad 2 times a year
- Option to buy/sell up to 5 vacation days per year
- Reimbursement of work-related travel expenses
- Budget for setting up your home office
- A nice and fun office in the center of Eindhoven (Strijp-S), located in the Klokgebouw - 30 seconds from Strijp-S station and 5 minutes from Eindhoven Central Station - take an insiders’ perspective here
- The opportunity to make our world a little better by increasing international access to education and being at the core of a study choice giant that the world education market is desperately waiting for
- Studyportals is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 4 (Quality Education) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), promoting equal access to education while minimizing our environmental impact through digital innovation and responsible operations