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Sherwin-Williams

Global paint and coatings manufacturer

Senior Finance Analyst

Financial AccountingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLelystad, Netherlands

About the Job

Requirements

  • A degree in Finance, Economics, or Accounting.
  • Fluency in Dutch and English.
  • At least 3 years of work experience in a general ledger accounting, financial reporting, audit, or controllership environment.
  • Business and accounting education according to Dutch accounting standards and International Financial Reporting Standards.
  • Experience with external audit.
  • Previous experience working in an audit environment or a multinational organization with at least 2 years of finance or accounting experience.
  • Knowledge of Dutch generally accepted accounting principles and International Financial Reporting Standards.
  • Ability to communicate financial information and related issues clearly in Dutch and English.
  • Ability to work constructively at all organizational levels, from plant operators to senior executives.
  • Drive and assertiveness to achieve work deadlines and performance goals.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted finance partner for the Netherlands legal entities, working closely with the Financial Controller across two sites and manufacturing plants in Lelystad and Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
  • Complete month-end close, working toward a three-day close, and support the business and finance workstreams.
  • Prepare accruals, prepayments, payroll journals, bonus accrual accounting, and other accounting and controlling support entries for month-end close.
  • Prepare and upload journals, generate reports, and provide other support required by the EMEAI Finance team and Finance Controller.
  • Understand the composition of balances to ensure postings are correct.
  • Support the Controller with queries from the business and finance workstreams.
  • Review OneStream profit and loss, balance sheet, and trend trial balance reports for accuracy and reasonableness of postings.
  • Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist with balance sheet reviews to ensure completeness and accuracy, meeting agreed deadlines.
  • Work with finance workstreams and the business to resolve mis-postings or incorrect balances.
  • Maintain and continuously improve balance sheet and profit and loss accounts.
  • Support queries and investigate intercompany reconciliation differences.
  • Assist with queries from Finance workstreams, including GSC, SBS, FP&A, and Commercial BU.
  • Check and align the Chart of Accounts with business needs.
  • Support administrative, accounting, and intercompany requests, including non-accounts-payable payments and intercompany recharges.
  • Prepare external audit schedules and support audit queries and documentation requests.
  • Support intercompany balance confirmation and provide transaction and balance information to external auditors.
  • Support the Workiva project mapping.
  • Support and prepare statutory and compliance filings, including statistical returns, CBS, and WBSO.
  • Review and support the statutory ledger, chart of accounts, and accounting entries.
  • Support reconciliation between US GAAP reporting and local statutory reporting requirements.
  • Perform primary statutory general ledger reconciliation in Oracle Cloud.
  • Ensure financial controls are executed.
  • Support regional projects, integration tasks, finance projects, and ad hoc analysis directly for the Finance Controller.
  • Deliver accurate financial reporting, ensure statutory and regulatory compliance, and support business performance through financial analysis, governance, and stakeholder collaboration.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of US generally accepted accounting principles is an advantage.

About the Company

Sherwin-Williams

Global paint and coatings manufacturer

Sherwin-Williams makes paints and coatings for professional, industrial, commercial, and consumer customers. It sells branded and private-label coatings for architectural, industrial, packaging, and transportation markets, distributed through more than 5,000 company-operated stores and facilities and supplying engineered coatings to over 120 countries. Its products protect and decorate surfaces in buildings, manufacturing, packaging, and transportation, and are supported by digital access and strong customer service. The company aims to maintain leadership in the paint and coatings industry by delivering high-quality products, expanding globally, and maintaining reliable access to its solutions through partnerships.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cleveland, OH
Founded
1866

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