Financial Operations Specialist ( part time / 24 hours)

Ecochain is a fast-growing, purpose-driven B2B SaaS scale-up on a mission to make sustainability data accessible for 100M products by 2035. We build LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) automation platforms—Mobius and Helix—that help Industrial Manufacturers quantify, share, and reduce their environmental footprint with speed and scale.

Founded in 2011 in the Netherlands, we're now a team of 50+ professionals serving Construction Products and Industrial Equipment manufacturers across Benelux, DACH, and beyond. Our customers trust us to turn complex impact data into actionable insights, enabling them to meet compliance requirements (CPR, EPBD, ESPR) and build more sustainable products.

Our Values:

• We Care – We support our teammates, customers, and the planet

• We Share – We grow stronger by sharing knowledge, feedback, and success

• We Empower – We create space for people to lead, learn, and make a difference

The Role

As our Senior Financial Operations Specialist, you'll own the operational backbone of our financial administration—accounts receivable, the vendor invoice pipeline, and a clean, on-time month-end close. Reporting directly to our Financial Controller, you won't be assisting someone else's process. You'll own a domain outright, and your Controller will review your work rather than rebuild it.

This is a deliberately designed 24-hour role. Not a full-time job squeezed into part-time pay, and not a stopgap—a permanent, well-organised position for someone who wants to do one thing properly rather than five things partially.

What You'll Do

• Own accounts receivable end-to-end—customer billing, contract invoicing, credit management, and the AR aging overview.

• Run collections independently, following up past-due balances with a friendly, professional approach and resolving billing queries yourself.

• Manage the accounts payable pipeline—intake, approval routing, and submission of vendor invoices to our external accountant.

• Prepare weekly payment batches for approval, maintaining continuous oversight of what's unpaid.

• Code invoices accurately to the correct general ledger accounts and cost centres.

• Prepare routine monthly journal entries (accruals and revenue allocations) and perform balance-sheet reconciliations.

• Review P&L cost and revenue lines to verify correct period allocation.

• Keep the administration audit-ready as a matter of course, and support the Financial Controller on ad-hoc projects and process improvements.

• Reports to: Financial Controller

• Team: Finance (working closely with our external accountant, Customer Success, and Sales)

• Hours: 24 per week—three full days, or spread across four or five. You choose the pattern.

What We Offer

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Gross full-time salary of €3,500 – €4,500 per month depending on experience (based on 40 hours, pro-rated to 24 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance (vakantiegeld)

• Secondary benefits: Pension contribution, phone allowance, sports allowance

• Free lunch options in our Amsterdam-area office

• 100% public transport reimbursement or €0.25/km for own vehicle

Purpose & Impact

• Mission-driven work: Enable 100M products to share sustainability data by 2035

• Real-world impact: Clean, well-run administration is what frees up capacity for the mission-driven work everyone else here is doing. Cash collected on time is cash that funds the next release

• B Corp employer: We're measured on our impact, not just our margins

Growth & Development

• Scale-up phase: We're growing—be part of the journey

• High ownership: Influence how our financial processes are designed, not just how they're executed

• Career path: Grow through scope—ownership of the close calendar, the AP approval design, supplier terms. If the role outgrows 24 hours, we'll have that conversation honestly

• Learning culture: Product training, cross-functional exposure, and sustainability context you won't get in a traditional finance department

Work-Life Integration

• Genuinely flexible hours: 24 per week, structured around your life. We plan around your pattern, not the other way around

• Hybrid working: Office presence during close week, otherwise your call

• Protected time: When you're off, you're off. You are not expected to monitor emails, Slack, or check in on days you aren't working

• Trust-based culture: High autonomy with clear accountability and support

• Inclusive team: International team of 50+ colleagues who live our values (We Care, We Share, We Empower)

How to Apply

Submit your application including your Resume/CV and a Cover Letter. We read the cover letter first, and we'd love for you to answer three quick questions directly:

1. The full cycle you've owned: Walk us from a customer signing to the accountant filing. Be specific about where your responsibility started and stopped.

2. A balance you recovered: Tell us about a past-due balance you recovered from an unhappy customer. What did you say, and what happened to the relationship afterwards?

3. Managing a 24-hour week: How do you organize your work across 24 hours so that routine deadlines (like month-end or payment runs) are met smoothly without urgent tasks getting stuck on days you're off?

Three short paragraphs are plenty. Specific beats polished—we'd rather read one real story than three pages of adjectives.

Interview Process

We move quickly for the right candidate:

1. Screening Interview – Financial Controller (30 min): Culture fit, ownership experience, motivation, and how a 24-hour week fits your life.

2. Working Interview – Financial Controller (90 min): A live case using real, anonymised material from our own administration, plus a short take-home assignment (capped at 3 hours, and paid).

3. Final Interview – CEO (30 min): Vision alignment, long-term commitment.