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Senior Accounting Specialist

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Position:Senior Accounting Specialist

Primary Location:Terneuzen (NLD), Netherlands

Schedule:Full time

Date Posted:07/05/2024

Job Number:R2053023

Position Type:Regular

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.

About you and this role

Dow has an exciting opportunity for aManufacturing Cost Accountant (m/f/d). This position is located inTerneuzen (The Netherlands).

Dow Hydrocarbons purchases and processes feedstocks for use in Dow's global operations, and work to identify alternative and renewable feedstock sources.

The Manufacturing Cost Accountant will oversee and manage overall financial and cost analysis related to the Crackers, the Aromatics and Butadiene units located in Terneuzen.

You ensure accounting activity recorded within the company’s records and books are accurate and complete. You are responsible for budgeting, product costing, recording, reporting, analyzing and communicating functional/business activity results. You assist the function/business management teams in financial analysis necessary for decision-making using in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in Accounting and basic knowledge of related finance disciplines.

In this role, you will require in-depth conceptual and working knowledge of your discipline or functional area. You will need to understand your discipline's best practices and how they relate to others. You may need to lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements as well as serve as a resource for less experienced colleagues. You should also be able to explain difficult or sensitive information and work to build consensus with others.

It is your responsibility to analyze and resolve complex problems, examine information from multiple sources, and use judgement to evaluate established and new solutions. Your performance impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities within your own team and other related teams and requires that you work within established guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Records, monitors, reports, and communicates function/business results, and ensures activity is accurate, complete, and compliant to accounting standards and best practices

• Completes product costing of materials, reviews for variances, and corrects/communicates results to business/plant management

• Performs product inventory reviews and fixed asset reviews

• Provides financial analysis to function/business management teams as needed for project studies, options analysis, and productivity/benchmarking measurements, and establishes and maintains an ongoing working relationship with other sub-processes and functions

• Helps facilitate the budget setting process and monthly/quarterly estimate process

• Demonstrates technical accounting ability through at least six years of directly applicable experience and acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience

• Helps drive change to reduce complexity in existing work processes and leads small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements

• Uses customer/client information to improve work processes

• Identifies root causes of issues and discovers and implements practical solutions

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on controlling, finance, accounting, or similar discipline

• You already have 3+ years of professional experience in controlling and cost accounting in a manufacturing company.

• You have an excellent written and oral communication skills across all levels and are a team player.

• You have good proficiency in written and spoken English. Dutch proficiency is a plus.

• You have experience in working with ERP systems (SAP)

• You have strong analytical skills.

• You have the ability to work legally in the Netherlands.

Additional notes

• Relocation support will not be provided for this role.

• You have the ability to work legally in the Netherlands.

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.

• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.

• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.

• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.

• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.

• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:

• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).

• ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.

• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visitingwww.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available onwww.dow.com.