Senior Business Controller

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,115 and EUR 7,308 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 11% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

As Senior Business Controller you will challenge the performance of one or more departments/tribes of the Products domain

You and your job

In the role of business controller for the Chief Products Officer (CPO) domain you play an essential role in helping to drive the efficiency of end-to-end customer and employee journeys and improve the delivery performance within the Retail NL domain. Your proactive and forward-looking analysis leads to new decision making enabling significant improvement in business results. You achieve this by providing new insights and acting as sparring partner with various stakeholders. In your role you challenge when necessary and contribute with impact!

The CPO domain is responsible for the delivery of all Rabobank products and client journeys and takes care of the right balance in quality and cost of delivery. The CPO domain is organized in several departments (“tribes”) and prioritizes IT and operational activities Rabobank has 8 separate tribes including Business Lending, Housing and  Payments & Savings. We work in an Agile way of working (we call this Simplify@Scale). There are 1,200 colleagues related to CPO.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Acting as a trusted advisor for one or more departments/tribes on (non)-financial and governance matters. Challenging senior management in strategic decision making and advising business (cases)
• Steering and coordinating business control activities for CPO domain, such as financial and management accounting, organizing and coordinating financial management cycle, supporting management in financial & KPI steering
• Help prioritize activities between the various teams via meaningful insights to balance business, Tech and Risk priorities to optimize cost-benefit for the bank.

In this position you have the opportunity to be a true Chief Value Officer (CVO) . As CVO's we team up to add value to the bank. By putting data in perspective and providing guidance on the strategic direction, CVO's ensure that Rabobank remains a rock solid bank. We do this by executing our High Tech - High Touch strategy. We use tech to optimize processes and use data to provide actionable insights. We use our human touch to tell the story behind the numbers.

Furthermore, CVO's provides analyses, benchmarking, scenario analyses etc. to provide insights and robust challenge that drive the strategy, business decisions and In Control-process. We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So, we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Rabobank Control Retail NL.

About Rabobank

We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9.5 million customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

Retail NL is a customer led organization, with customer segments that steer the integral P&L and define the business priorities in the relevant customer journeys The CPO domain is part of the management team of Retail NL focussed on optimizing the backlog prioritization process and drive improvements in product journeys as well as efficiency in the end-to-end product value chains.

You and your talent

Customer focus, communication power, personal development and realizing results are clearly essential for the role of Senior Business Controller. In addition, it's important that you recognize yourself in the checklist below: 

• Your Dutch language skills (spoken in the Netherlands) are excellent, both in speaking and in writing;
• You have a completed university education, or higher, with a numerical or strategic focus; 
• You have experience in a business control role as part of the business management team;
• You are able to support and challenge management about (complex) control activities across the entire tribe;
• You have a deep understanding of the product within the bank, or the will and affinity to acquire that knowledge;
• You have experience with Simply@Scale (Agile) way of working and preferably understanding or experience with IT;
• You are experienced in relevant RaboSkills, such as Change agility, Storytelling and Professional Collaboration.

This is what we offer you

See above, the terms of employment for a (Senior) Business Controller based on a 36-hour working week.

You and the job application process

Reply to the vacancy for (Senior) Business Controller at Rabobank before 15 December 2024. If you don’t speak any Dutch, your application will not be taken into consideration.

• Any questions about the job content? Contact: Niek Derkman, Business Controller CPO via niek.derkman@rabobank.nl or +31(0)6 12 99 80 23.
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Alicia van Waveren, Recruiter, via teams or mail: alicia.van.waveren@rabobank.nl
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