Finance Generalist
About this role
Finance Generalist
Application Deadline: 21 August 2026
Department: Finance
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and maintain short-term and rolling cash flow forecasts, funding plans, and cash position reports to support management decision-making.
- Monitor daily bank balances, liquidity requirements, settlement needs, and working capital movements, escalating risks or funding gaps in a timely manner.
- Support financing and refinancing activities, including bank facility administration, loan drawdowns and repayments, interest schedules, and required documentation.
- Coordinate with banks, headquarters, internal departments, and external advisers on treasury matters, ensuring proper records, approvals, and compliance with internal control requirements.
- Enter and schedule payments in online banking platforms accurately and on time, including supplier payments, tax payments, intercompany settlements, and other approved disbursements.
- Check that payment requests are supported by valid invoices, contracts, approvals, bank details, and other required documentation before input.
- Coordinate with approvers and relevant departments to resolve payment queries, rejected transactions, bank detail changes, and urgent payment requirements.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing audit schedules, reconciliations, supporting documents, explanations, and follow-up materials.
- Assist with audit requests relating to treasury, bank transactions, payments, tax filings, accounts payable, and related finance processes.
- Track audit findings and follow-up actions, helping ensure timely rectification, evidence collection, and closure of outstanding matters.
- Maintain finance files and compliance records in good order to strengthen daily inspection readiness and internal control discipline.
Tax Filing and Compliance Support
- Prepare, coordinate, and/or support periodic tax and statutory filings, including excise duty, CBS statistical reporting, INTRA-EU reporting, VAT, CIT, WHT, and TP-related submissions or documentation.
- Work with external accounting firms, tax advisers, and internal stakeholders to collect data, verify figures, reconcile records, and submit filings accurately and within required deadlines.
- Maintain supporting schedules and working papers for tax returns, including transaction listings, reconciliations, calculation files, correspondence, and filing confirmations.
- Monitor filing calendars and tax compliance deadlines, escalating issues and coordinating timely resolution with the CFO and relevant parties.
- Assist with month-end closing support, and finance reporting as required by the CFO.
- Support improvement of finance workflows, payment controls, filing processes, and coordination mechanisms with headquarters and business teams.
- Perform other finance, treasury, tax, audit, and administrative tasks assigned by the CFO.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, tax, business administration or equivalent.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in finance operations, treasury, tax compliance, audit support, or accounting.
- Experience in the Netherlands or with European finance/tax compliance is preferred.
- Good understanding of treasury operations, cash planning, bank processes, online banking payment input, and finance internal controls.
- Familiarity with tax and statutory filings such as excise duty, CBS/INTRA-EU reporting, VAT, CIT, WHT, and TP documentation is preferred.
- Strong attention to detail, sense of responsibility, and ability to manage deadlines for payments, audits, and tax filings.
- Good communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work with banks, auditors, external advisers, headquarters, and internal teams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and common finance systems; SAP experience is a strong plus.
Benefits
Company at a glance
Petroineos comprises trading and refining joint ventures between PetroChina International (London) Company Limited and INEOS. Established in 2011, Petroineos is one of Europe’s leading International Integrated Energy Trading Companies.
In addition to third-party trading, Petroineos Trading's key functions include the supply of Crude Oil to Petroineos and PetroChina's refinery and the arrangement of the sale and distribution of the various products that are produced from our refinery in Lavéra. Products traded by Petroineos include both Crude Oil and Refined Oil Products.
Petroineos' Lavéra refinery is fully integrated with co-sited petrochemical assets of the Company. Close proximity to feedstocks and customers are key elements of its strength.
In April 2025, refinery operations ceased at the Grangemouth refinery and the business transitioned to a modern import and fuels distribution terminal which continues to reliably serve the Scottish market. The terminal has excellent logistical infrastructure to load and transport fuel via road, jetty, rail and pipeline, with a range of imported transport, heating and aviation fuels available. We market these fuels from the terminal location for distribution throughout the UK and further afield.
The Lavéra refinery processes 210,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It is strategically located on the coast of the Mediterranean crude oil trading basin, next to the port of Marseille. The refinery supplies fuel by pipelines into France, Switzerland and Southern Germany.
Top Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Gym Membership
- Company Pension
- 25 Days Holiday Allowance
- Performance Related Bonus
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