Senior accountant

Context & Impact:
We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Finance team at our HQ in Merelbeke, Belgium — stepping into a key role within a fast-moving, international environment. As Senior Accountant, you'll be the backbone of our day-to-day accounting operations across multiple legal entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and continuity across the full accounting cycle. Beyond keeping the engine running, you'll play an active role in shaping how our Finance team works — contributing to AI-driven workflow innovation that will allow us to further scale.

Challenge:
The main challenges you'll face are:

• Maintaining the pace and quality of operational accounting without disruption while you onboard and get up to speed across multiple legal entities

• Actively building and championing new AI-assisted workflows within the accounting team — not waiting to be asked, but bringing your own initiatives to the table

• Supporting the team's transition toward a higher-volume, future-ready Finance function — balancing today's deadlines with tomorrow's ways of working

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare and process timely supplier payments and process all payroll-related accounting entries

• Process bank statements and post and maintain evidence for general ledger transactions

• Manage mon