Corporate Controller - Aqua Spark
We have a unique job opening for a Corporate Controller at Aqua-Spark! Do you want to join them on their mission to radically change the global aquaculture value chain to healthier more sustainable and more accessible production while generating financial returns for their investors?
Your new challenge
The role
As the Corporate Controller at Aqua-Spark, you will oversee the entire financial process, ensuring a structured and proactive approach to managing our finances. You will be responsible for investment valuations, and reporting, all while contributing to strategic decisions with your financial insights. You will work closely together with their financial administrative assistant and their Chief Risk and Operations Officer.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely, accurate and relevant financial reporting of the fund and the management entities to all stakeholders
- Support the investment managers and investee board members with financial analysis and insights where necessary
- Manage the relationship with the fund administrator (outsourced)
- Full responsibility for the annual reporting
- Manage the operational relationship with the auditor
- Help in developing SFDR compliant reporting
- Implement and maintain a strong control framework
Your new employer
Aqua-Spark is a global investment fund that makes investments in sustainable aquaculture businesses that generate investment returns, whilst creating positive social and environmental impact (Forbes’, Impact 50). The fund is building an ecosystem of small to medium-sized enterprises across the global aquaculture value chain, to make the entire value chain of food more sustainable, healthier and more accessible for all. All of this with their great team, from their beautiful office in the city center of Utrecht! The Aqua-Spark team is diverse, international, hardworking, tight-knit, with a clear focus on their mission.
At Aqua-Spark, they believe that meeting the growing demand for fish products while simultaneously sustaining our environment requires a radical transformation. They are contributing to this transformation by investing in those companies in the aquaculture value chain that demonstrate a shared vision of a sustainable future. Their portfolio of mission aligned companies will serve as an example of a truly sustainable commercial aquaculture. To motivate wider industry adoption, they work with supply chain participants to strengthen each other’s commitment to a more sustainable industry, collaborating to test and adopt new practices and technologies.
Your profile
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in business economics or a related field and preferably RA/RC (or comparable international qualification)
- Previous work experience in a large accountant firm and / or with an investment fund
- Practical knowledge of IAS 28 is highly advantageous
- Fluent in English
Required personal skills
- High energy and positive team member.
- You thrive in a dynamic work environment
- You work structured and precise
- High personal integrity, including the capacity to discretely handle highly confidential and sensitive information
Are you an enthusiastic and proactive professional who excels in working with structure and thrives in a diverse team? We would love to meet you!
Our offer
- Flexible working hours and partially working from home are an option (3 days per week in the office)
- An excellent salary package including participation profit sharing
- 38 days of paid leave
- Development opportunities for professional growth
You’ll find yourself working in a challenging international environment collaborating within a growing and great team of professionals!
