Business Operations & Data Specialist (Finance)

About the role

Every number that reaches our leadership team, our board, and our auditors has to be right the first time — and that is where you come in. As a Business Operations & Data Specialist focused on Finance at Destinus, you are the bridge between the owners of our financial data, the CFO, and the wider finance team and the data in our lakehouse. You own how finance data is defined, where it comes from, how it is produced, and how it reaches the people who make decisions with it. This is as much an operations role as a reporting one. You will translate what finance needs to know into what the data platform has to deliver, working with our Data Engineers on the finance data in the lakehouse and building the dashboards the CFO and the finance team rely on. You will also improve the processes and systems that create the numbers in the first place, automate the manual work that eats the month, and make our finance data understandable to everyone who needs it, including our AI assistants. At Destinus, we are redefining the future of aerospace manufacturing — bringing speed, precision, and innovation to every process that powers our advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). We are a fast-growing international group operating across several European entities, and the standards we hold our financial data to are rising just as quickly. Join us in building a finance reporting foundation that is accurate, traceable, and ready for any question asked of it.

What You'll Do

Be the go-to contact between the business owners of finance data — the CFO, accounts payable and receivable, and treasury — and our lakehouse: turn their questions into clear data requirements, and the data back into answers they can act on. Build and maintain Power BI dashboards covering cash flow, receipts and collections, payables, and spend across the group, built on certified lakehouse data. Partner with our Data Engineers on the curated (gold) layer for finance: specify the tables, fields, and business rules — entities, currencies, financial dimensions, intercompany — and validate the result against the ledger before anyone relies on it. Prepare and quality-check entity-level data extractions from our lakehouse and ERP in support of the external audit, and keep audit requests tracked from request to delivery. Define and document finance KPI definitions in our KPI catalog — formulas, inclusions, exclusions, owners, and sources — to a standard that withstands external review. Describe our finance data in plain business language — what each field means, who owns it, and how sensitive it is — for our shared meanings layer, so that colleagues and our AI assistants can use it correctly without having to ask you first. Automate what is manual today: turn recurring spreadsheet work, audit packs, and month-end routines into repeatable processes that largely run themselves. Improve the finance processes and system configuration that create the data, working with the finance team and our ERP specialists, so that issues are fixed at source rather than corrected every month. Help the finance team get more from the tools through training and self-service, so they can answer their own questions.

Requirements

What You’ll Need Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Controlling, Economics, or a related field. A genuine finance background is essential — experience in external or internal audit, controlling, financial reporting, or FP&A. This is not a data role with finance on the side; you need to understand the accounting behind the figures. Confident with general ledger and subledger structures, trial balances, accounts payable and accounts receivable, bank reconciliations, intercompany transactions, and the principles of IFRS. Strong expertise in Power BI (data modeling, DAX, dashboard design, troubleshooting), complemented by advanced Excel skills. Comfortable querying data with SQL and working in a lakehouse or data warehouse environment; experience with Microsoft Fabric or a medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture is a plus. You will not build the pipelines — you need to know what to ask for and how to check what comes back. Able to explain data to finance colleagues and accounting logic to technical ones — and to get both sides to agree on one definition. Hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance is a strong advantage — the general ledger, accounts payable and accounts receivable modules, and the data structures underneath them. We run on D365, and someone who already knows it will be effective months earlier. An interest in improving how the system is configured and used matters as much as knowing where to click. A track record of simplifying or automating a process, not only reporting on it. Experience supporting an external audit, or working in a multi-entity, multi-currency international group, is a strong advantage. Fluent in English; additional European languages are a plus. Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment is preferred.

Who You Are

You are precise, and you are curious about where a number came from before you are comfortable reporting it — whether that means reading the ledger or querying the lakehouse. You know the difference between a figure that looks right and a figure that can be traced back to its source, and you care about the second one. You are not content to rebuild the same report every month. When something is manual, repetitive, or fragile, your instinct is to go upstream and fix it rather than absorb it. You enjoy working with finance colleagues who ask hard questions, and you would rather be challenged on a detail than have it slip through. Above all, you want your work to be relied on, by the CFO, by the board, and by anyone who audits it. Find more English Speaking Jobs in Netherlands on Arbeitnow