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Accounting Officer

Sumitomo Drive Technologies

Sumitomo Drive Technologies

Accounting & Finance
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Posted on Sep 11, 2025

Since its establishment in 1888, the Sumitomo Heavy Industries Group (SHI) has worked to tackle the problems faced by customers and society by providing products and services as an integrated manufacturing company. You will find our solutions in industrial situations, such as shipyards, automobile factories, and semiconductor factories, but as well in daily life, such as households, hospitals, elevators, and escalators.


The strengths of our Group lie in our people, and their diverse technological, management, and organizational capabilities that we have built up over the course of our extensive history. We will continue to draw on these strengths as sources of greater competitiveness and strive to achieve further growth in the future.

Our European Headquarters is supporting around 60 businesses managed and operating across all four SHI segments: Mechatronics, Industrial Machinery, Logistics and Construction, and Energy and Lifeline.

Purpose

The Accounting Officer is responsible for managing Sumitomo Heavy Industries (Europe) B.V.’s(Hereinafter as “SHI-E”) financial records, including Bookkeeping, Expense Control, etc. Meanwhile, the Accounting Officer is also responsible for the Finance activity of SHI-E, including Cash Pooling System(CPS) operation, Loan Limit Control, etc.

The Accounting Officer is a member of the Finance and Administration team and reporting directly to the General Manager of Finance and Administration.

Responsibilities

<Accounting & Finance>

  • Prepare and Post Journal Entries
  • Perform Bank Reconciliation
  • Perform GL Reconciliation
  • Payment processing
  • Invoice
  • Perform Month-end, Quarter-end, and Year-end Closing Activities
  • Prepare Monthly Financial Statement- Income Statement and Balance Sheet
  • Prepare data for tax consultant to complete Tax Filing
  • Input figures and Validate Data for required reports- Monthly/Quarterly/ Yearly Reports
  • Communicate with Accounting Software Vendor
  • Make Cash flow Schedule, including CPS daily operation
  • Communicate with Auditor
  • Support for Budgeting, including Loan Limit
  • Ad hoc– Request from General Mgr.

Requirements

  • Open and positive personality
  • Teamplayer
  • Discrete and proactive
  • International mindset
  • Ability to use metrics and analytics
  • Working knowledge of MS Office and most common accounting software

(Mid-level MS Excel skills including "Vlookup" and "Sumif")

  • Well developed interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate cross-functionally and across management levels effectively
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong analytical skills, having an ability to analyze, refine, summarize, and clearly present data and information
  • Excellent command of English (verbal and written)
  • Bachelor degree in accounting or economics
  • 2-3 years of experience in financial accounting
  • Experience in Cash Pooling Management is preferable

Internal & external contacts

The Accounting Officer is a member of the Finance and Administration team and reports directly to the General Manager of Finance and Administration.

Internal contacts (below but not limit to)

  • Sumitomo Heavy Industries (Europe) B.V. team
  • Local Finance teams
  • SHI Finance team

External contacts (below but not limit to)

  • Banks
  • Accounting firms
  • Auditors
  • Software suppliers

Brand:

SHI Europe

Company:

Sumitomo Heavy Industries (Europe) B.V.