Financial Controller
Join a dynamic, talented, and engaged team in a positive work environment to create a meaningful impact.
As a Financial Controller, you will help take ownership of GRESB’s financial operations and reporting across Dutch and international entities. You’ll assist in overseeing all core accounting processes — ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency — while driving improvements in automation, controls, and reporting. This role combines hands-on accounting execution with leadership in process optimization. If you are tech-savvy, data-driven, and passionate about leveraging technology to improve financial visibility and operational efficiency, this job is for you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and optimize monthly, quarterly, and annual closing processes to ensure speed, accuracy, and reliability in close collaboration with external accountants
- Lead audit and tax processes, acting as the primary liaison with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory authorities
- Lead financial systems upgrades or integrations, ensuring data integrity and alignment with business needs
- Develop and enforce global processes and financial policies that enable sustainable growth and audit readiness
- Partner with FP&A and operations to connect financial insights with strategic and operational decisions
- Foster financial acumen across the organization by educating teams on key finance principles and performance drivers
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to build a lean, tech-enabled, and high-performing finance function
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 3 years of experience in audit and/or financial control or accounting in a tech start-up environment
- Tech-savvy and data-driven, with a passion for improving systems, automating workflows with experience in ERP/accounting systems (preferably Exact)
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proactive, structured, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, international environment
Benefits
- Involvement in a fast-growing international organization that is globally recognized as the leading sustainability benchmark for real assets
- Scale-up mentality, fast and flat processes, straight internal communication, low hierarchies, and freedom to operate
- Opportunity to work with highly talented teams in a supportive and flexible environment.
- Familiar atmosphere within a dynamic and positive team at modern and well-located office facilities
- Attractive compensation that matches your experience
- 25 days of paid holidays + 2 paid volunteering days off
- Annual budget of EUR 2,500 for Personal Development
- Home office budget of EUR 350
- Company pension plan
- Free public transport to and from work inside the Netherlands
- Company provided laptop
- Free and healthy lunch at the office
GRESB is an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace, one at which all workers — regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, identity, education, or disability — feel valued and respected. We are committed to a non-discriminatory approach to hiring and provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all of our teams and programs. We respect and value diverse life experiences and heritages and work to ensure that all voices are valued and heard.
ABOUT GRESB
GRESB is a mission-driven organization and strategic partner for sustainable and high-performing investments across real assets and climate-critical industries. We help investment professionals mitigate risk and build portfolios that are resilient, efficient, and financially attractive for long-term success.
Our Vision: An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world.
Our Mission: To provide financial markets with actionable sustainability insights, data and benchmarks. More than 150 global institutional and financial investors with USD 53 trillion in assets under management rely on GRESB to help guide their investment decisions, mitigating risk, improving portfolio quality, and driving long-term financial success. The GRESB team is an energetic group of more than 100 individuals from diverse backgrounds with experience spanning sustainability, data science, software development, real estate, infrastructure, and the capital markets. Most of us work out of our head office in Amsterdam or one of our satellite offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, Singapore, or Sydney. We’re passionate about tackling the sustainability challenge by providing the insights that will power the markets of the future and enable investors to allocate the world’s capital in a more responsible way.