Financial Controller
As experienced Financial Controller, you will play a key role in ensuring UGG is fully in control of its financials. You will work closely with the finance team to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful reporting, with a strong focus on the balance sheet, P&L, and cashflow.
40 hours | Amsterdam
Urban Gym Group (UGG) is a leading fitness and wellness company with over 60 clubs and studios across the Netherlands and the UK, including TrainMore, ClubSportive, Gymbox and BTY CLB. As we embark on a new chapter of international expansion and professionalisation, we remain committed to driving growth through both organic development and strategic acquisitions.
As experienced Financial Controller, you will play a key role in ensuring UGG is fully in control of its financials. You will work closely with the finance team to deliver timely, accurate, and insightful reporting, with a strong focus on the balance sheet, P&L, and cashflow. You will drive process improvements and system efficiency, ensuring robust controls and up-to-date specifications for both P&L and balance sheet on a monthly basis.
Key responsibilities:
- Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting to internal stakeholders, the board, and shareholders.
- Take ownership of the monthly closing process, with a particular focus on balance sheet, P&L, and cashflow control.
- Perform monthly checks and ensure all specifications for P&L and balance sheet are updated and documented.
- Work closely with other financial controllers to ensure full control over revenue and costs.
- Critically review and improve financial processes and systems, driving efficiency and automation.
- Pro-active end to end process optimization;
- Coordinate external audits;Liaise with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory authorities as needed.
Your profile:
- Master’s degree in accounting, finance or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience as a financial controller; experience in a scale-up, buy-and-build organisation, multi-entity structure, and international environment is a plus.
- Excellent knowledge of (Dutch) accounting standards.
- Experience with process optimization and finance system improvements.
- Analytical with a strong sense of ownership. A proactive and hands-on approach is essential. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Eager to coach other finance professionals.
- Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.
- Eligible to work in the Netherlands.
- Experience with Netsuite and Lucanet is a plus.
To foster collaboration, coaching, and team energy, we expect our colleagues to work on-site (head office or clubs) at least 4 days per week (and up to 5 days depending on the role).
We offer:
- Competitive salary plus 8% holiday pay based on your annual salary
- 26 days holiday (based on full-time employment)
- Pension plan to support your future
- Join our Work in Club Programme and experience life on the gym floor
- Well-being matters: you and your family get unlimited access to OpenUp, our mental health and well-being partner
- Unlimited access to all our first-class clubs for you and a +1
- Remote working option for up to 10 days a year based on full-time employment
- One day a year for charity work: give back and make an impact
* A personality assessment may be part of the hiring.
About Urban Gym Group
A world leading fitness group
We’ve been pushing the boundaries of what we can do to empower our community to get the most out of themselves.
In doing so we create places in communities with a purpose, where people come to transform their lives from good to great.
We place our community left, right and centre in everything we do. By tailoring our future facing and innovative urban gym concepts to their specific needs, we offer them the care, the energy and the challenge they need to create an ever-healthier lifestyle.
Application proces
Let us know who you are
Send your resume and motivation letter to work@urbangymgroup.com. After assessing your application, we will contact you.We meet
After a brief meeting online we plan a face to face meeting at one of our clubs or at HQ. When applying for an audition as trainer or performer, you will be invited for the next planned audition.Culture fit
Fitting our culture is the most important part of the application proces. We believe character, ambitions and expectations are more important than skills. Together we find out if there is a mutual match and if we meet each others expectations.A day in our club
Sometimes we skip step 4, but depending on the vacancy, we ask you to step in our club and experience real life a day in our club. This way you know for sure the UGG family suits you.Conditions
We expect to offer you a contract within 10 working days after your application. The proposal will inform you on all primary and secondary conditions (including unlimited training at all of our labels!).