Financial manager for e-commerce business

Hi,

For our social enterprise (an e-commerce brand selling handmade rugs), we are looking for someone to become our financial manager.

The role will develop and grow over time, but responsibilities include:
- Creating weekly overviews of all orders that have come in
- Creating monthly financial reports of our business
- Communicating about shipments and status of orders with our logistics partner and with the teams in the 4 countries where are rugs are made
- Booking bulk shipments and return shipments
- Making a quarterly overview of European VAT that we need to pay
- Checking incoming invoices and preparing overviews of payments we need to make
- Doing the book keeping
- Etc.

We are looking for someone who:
- Is very precise and concise (important!)
- Has deep knowledge of accounting and financial reporting
- Is great with numbers and MS Excel
- Shares our passion for social enterprise and our products
- Has highly relevant work experience
- Can work independently and professionally
- Is a good communicator (mostly via e-mail)
- Is a nice person to work with! :)

You'll report directly to one of the co-founders.

Initially it will probably require around 20 hours per week (4 hours per working day).

In your application letter please answer these 5 questions:
1) What can you bring to this role that you’re certain other applicants can’t?
2) What would previous coworkers and managers say about you?
3) Where do you see yourself in five years?
4) What kind of monthly financial reports do you think a company like ours needs and why? If you have made similar reports in the past then please share them.
5) What do you know about our industry?

Thank you!


Wouter