--- title: 'Financial Controller at AHEAD' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/financial-controller-ahead-breda-rsp6q308awqy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Financial Controller at AHEAD - **Company:** AHEAD - **Location:** Breda, Netherlands - **Compensation:** €90k–€115k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/d1fc1a5c-5b5a-450d-81ed-f80ac71b4fca ## Job description AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. ## Role Responsibilities Financial Control & Reporting - Take ownership of the day-to-day finance function for the Netherlands entity whilst collaborating with the wider international finance organisation. - Lead month-end close activities including journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and reporting. - Prepare management accounts, variance analysis, and cash flow reporting. - Support budgets, forecasts, and reforecasts. - Maintain robust financial controls and provide financial insight. Operational Finance - Oversee sales invoicing, accounts receivable, and credit control. - Support accounts payable, cash allocation, and finance administration. - Oversee local payroll, pension contributions, employee expenses and related finance administration. - Undertake operational, transactional, and administrative finance activities where required. - Work collaboratively across Finance, Sales and Operations. - Identify opportunities for process improvement. Compliance & Governance - Support compliance with Dutch statutory reporting, corporate tax, VAT and other regulatory requirements. - Support audits and maintain audit readiness. - Maintain financial controls and documentation. - Develop finance policies and scalable processes. Systems & Transformation - Support transition to global finance systems. - Support testing, process mapping, and implementation. - Promote consistency of reporting and controls across the Group. Growth & Team Development - Support development of a scalable finance function. - Support onboarding and development of future finance team members. - Maintain a practical and collaborative approach. ## Skills and Experience Essential: - Relevant professional accounting qualification (or equivalent), or demonstrable equivalent experience gained through progressively responsible finance roles. - Broad hands-on finance experience within a growing or international business. - Strong knowledge of month-end close, reporting, reconciliations, and financial control. - Experience of budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and audit preparation. - Experience improving finance processes and supporting systems change. - Strong understanding of Dutch accounting, tax and regulatory requirements. - Strong VAT expertise, including experience managing VAT implications when purchasing products from vendors and selling products to customers within and outside the Netherlands. - Experience managing payroll, pension contributions, and employee expenses. - Experience working with shared services, regional or global finance teams. - Legal right to work in the Netherlands and ability to attend the Nijmegen office regularly and the new facility in Breda from ~April 2027. - Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills. - Excellent command of written and spoken English, required for effective day-to-day communication, reporting and collaboration with the wider international finance organisation, including colleagues and stakeholders in the UK and US. - Ability to work independently and adapt to changing business needs. Desirable: - Previous supervisory or people management experience. - Experience of finance system implementation or migration. - Experience in a multi-entity international environment. Additional Information Right to Work To be considered for this role, you must be legally entitled to work in the Netherlands. Employer-sponsored work authorisation is not available for this position. Other Duties The responsibilities described above are intended to outline the general nature of the role and are not an exhaustive list of duties. Responsibilities may reasonably evolve in line with business requirements. Travel Occasional domestic and international travel may be required to support business operations and collaboration with the wider finance organisation. The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the UK Candidate Privacy Notice / Netherlands Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview.  Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. ## About AHEAD ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services - **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint. ## Products & Services - **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)* - **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)* - **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)* - **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)* - **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)* - **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)* - **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)* - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)* - **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)* ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company) - **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials). - **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale. ## Competitive Advantages - **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape. - **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion. - **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations. - **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software. - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines. - **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion. ## Sources 1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/) 2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/) 3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/) 4. 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