Business Controller

As Business Controller at Metadax & Emtes you are the right-hand of the CEO on everything related to money, margin, contracts, and risk. You monitor, signal, and substantiate — and you also provide leading our mid-office, so that the entire chain from payroll to management information falls under one responsibility. You are the first to notice that a margin is eroding, a framework agreement is expiring, or a cost price is incorrect.

This is a new, strategic position with a direct line to management and ample room to set up the control function yourself. The workplace is Roosendaal.

• Cost price & margin — you build and monitor the cost price calculations and margin structure per client and per placement, and identify deviations before they incur costs.
• Financial control & reporting — you deliver management reports based on AFAS, Regelneef, and internal data, and establish a fixed reporting structure where only deviations are brought to the table.
• Framework agreements — you monitor the financial and contractual conditions of our framework agreements (rates, indexations, terms, obligations) and prepare negotiations substantively.
• Cash flow & financing structure — you keep an eye on working capital, DSO, and the financing structure, and model scenarios.
• Compliance & risk — you ensure that we remain within the frameworks of NBBU-CAO, hirer's liability, certifications, and fiscal/legal obligations.
• Mid-office management — you lead the mid-office team and ensure that data production, payroll, and management information are accurate at the source.
• National & international payroll structure — you monitor the payroll structure for both Dutch contracts and international constructions (e.g., A1 secondment via foreign legal employers) and ensure that cost price and compliance are sound.

• HBO/WO in business economics, finance, accountancy or similar.
• Demonstrable experience as a (business) controller at a technical staffing agency — you know cost price structure, conversion factors, collective labor agreement systems, and the dynamics of technical flexible work from the inside out.
• Experience with both national and international payroll structures (e.g., A1 secondment, foreign contracts).
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, but also able to read and comprehend a contract and a collective labor agreement (CAO).
• Knowledge of Dutch labor law and tax frameworks for the flexible employment sector (hirer's liability, WAADI, NEN 4400).
• Independent, direct, and not afraid to contradict management if the figures demand it.
• Experience with AFAS is a strong plus.

• A key position with a direct line to the CEO and real influence on the direction.
• The opportunity to set up the control function from scratch.
• A market-conform salary appropriate for experience and responsibility.
• An entrepreneurial, fast-growing environment without cumbersome corporate behavior.
• Location Roosendaal.

About us:

Metadax and Emtes are two technical staffing agencies under one management. We supply skilled professionals — welders, pipefitters, mechanics, E&I, and construction personnel — to shipbuilding, yacht building, offshore, civil construction, industry, and infrastructure. Our clients are the big names in the Dutch manufacturing industry.

We are growing rapidly, work with both national and international payroll structures, and have our compliance in order (NBBU, VCU, NEN 4400-1/SNA). This growth requires someone who monitors the figures, contracts, and risks so that management can make fact-based decisions.

Interested?

Apply directly using the form below and add your CV and a short motivation. An initial meeting is directly with the management — short, substantive, and to the point.