Careers

Finance Manager

The Role

As Head of Finance, you oversee the company’s financial operations, ensuring healthy cash flow, accurate administration, and strong financial control across all activities. You support strategic decision-making through budgeting, reporting, and margin monitoring, while ensuring compliance, risk management, and efficient financial processes.

Responsibilities

Financial Operations & Administration

  • Analyze cash flow and evaluate supplier payment terms and conditions based on cash flow impact
  • Monitor retail sales invoices and follow up on outstanding payments
  • Review purchase invoices and prepare outgoing payments
  • Execute outgoing payments and maintain payment schedules
  • Contribute to the optimization of e-commerce sell-through from a financial perspective
  • Prepare and monitor monthly commission overviews
  • Provide administrative support for U.S. sales tax obligations and compliance requirements
  • Apply for subsidies, follow up on approvals, and proactively identify new subsidy opportunities

Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting

  • Contribute to the budgeting of company expenses, including marketing costs and product launches
  • Monitor cost evolutions of product categories per season
  • Analyze collection-level costs and financial performance
  • Support financial reporting and provide insights to support strategic decision-making

Insurance & Risk Management

  • Manage and follow up on credit insurance contracts and the U.S. factoring structure
  • Oversee fire and transport insurance policies and ensure adequate coverage

Internal Accountancy

  • Following up on outstanding customer and supplier accounts
  • Bank postings and financial reporting
  • Assisting with monthly and year-end closings
  • Preparing and submitting VAT returns and other tax declarations
  • Completing corporate tax filings
  • Tax optimization and regulatory obligations
  • Main contact of external accountant

Profile

  • ⁠You speak Dutch and English fluently and reside in Belgium, with the ability to work in our studio on a daily basis
  • You work fulltime
  • You have 5 years of experience in the finance field
  • You have a strong knowledge of accountancy
  • You are excellent at working with excel
  • You thrive through numbers, and financial analyses
  • You are critical, strategic and always think 3 steps ahead
  • You work independently
  • You take initiative and set up new processes

The Benefits

BERNADETTE is a rapidly growing company driven by a young and ambitious team. You’ll be part of a team that is eager to teach and learn from each other. BERNADETTE is all about optimism — you’ll be working in a positive and creative environment.

Does this motivate you? Please send your resume and motivation letter to jobs@bernadetteantwerp.com with the title 'FINANCE MANAGER'.

Marketing and Communications intern

The Role

During the internship, carried out at the BERNADETTE studio in Antwerp, you will assist BERNADETTE’s marketing team. As a real team player, you will be part of a small and independent team. You will work closely with the teams responsible for PR, content, visual communication, and digital marketing.

Responsibilities

PR & events

  • Assist with the organization and execution of the brand’s show during Paris Fashion Week
  • Coordinate sales/branding events and launches for new stockists
  • Assist in organizing press requests
  • Stay informed about all brand communications and seize every opportunity to organize new initiatives and increase brand awareness
  • Analyze and set goals for influencer marketing
  • Write and distribute press releases per collection

Content and visual communication

  • Create short- and long-term communication and content marketing plans
  • Launch concepts for social media and website
  • Develop moodboards for content shoots
  • Assist in the production of photoshoots and content creation
  • Organize lookbook, campaign, and ghost shot imagery per collection
  • Create newsletters

Digital marketing

  • Assist in maintaining the webshop
  • Ensure prompt customer responses to incoming requests
  • Manage webshop order fulfillment and returns
  • Keep the customer database up-to-date and analyze it
  • Provide suggestions to improve the clients’ shopping experience

Profile

  • You are dynamic, social, and optimistic
  • You work independently and take initiative
  • ⁠You speak English fluently and reside in Belgium, with the ability to work in our studio on a daily basis
  • You enjoy variety in your tasks
  • You are creative and have strong writing skills
  • You have a degree or experience in a communications-related field
  • Knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator is a plus

The Benefits

BERNADETTE is a rapidly growing company driven by a young and ambitious team. You’ll be part of a team that is eager to teach and learn from each other. Because it is a small, flexible, and fast-evolving team, your job content will be varied and dynamic. BERNADETTE is all about optimism — you’ll be working in a positive and creative environment.

Does this motivate you? Please send your resume and motivation letter to jobs@bernadetteantwerp.com with the title 'MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS INTERN'.