Senior Business Controller EAA

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,162 and EUR 7,374 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% 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

Business Controller Europe, Africa & Asia

Imagine, your proactive and forward-looking analysis leads to new decision making achieving significant improvement in business results. You achieve this by providing new insights as a Business Controller and acting as sparring partner with various stakeholders. High Tech, High Touch, that is the aim of CFO.

We go for automation where FinTech/AI is an important theme, but we also believe that personal impact really makes the difference. Challenge when necessary and contribute where possible!

As a Business Controller at Rabobank, you are not just part of it. In fact, that's exactly who you already are.

Practical Examples

• You thrive on change and see improvements where ever you look; you are driving performance improvements, mostly commercially but also operationally in the bank.
• You analyse and identify areas in which our MT-members in the Europe, Africa & Asia region (Wholesale Banking) can take action to improve top or bottom line results;
• You raise the bar on quality of reported data by identifying root causes for structural issues in data quality and solve these by teaming up with our colleagues in client support, finance, product control and IT. You know when to zoom in, and when to zoom out.
• You connect people and give a personal touch to your advice and thereby create impact within and outside the CFO domain;

Top responsibilities

• Service business lines Trade & Commodity Finance, Value Chain Finance and Transaction Banking for all business control activities (e.g. reporting, planning, forecasting).
• Support our MT members manage the triangle Risk, Return and Sustainability.
• Cooperating in the process of monthly performance reporting to the management team of Europe, Africa & Asia, with your business control team colleagues to ensure we provide insights in relevant trends and advise on possible improvement initiatives.
• Support in the regional cost control activities including identifying actions that will reduce our cost to serve.
• Making sure financial processes run smoothly, by liaising between the branches and our finance colleagues in Utrecht, with a key focus on returns (income and regulatory capital).
• You will be driving the performance improvements in the region by working across silos to deliver results. This means creating new insights in growth areas and providing advice on optimizing the triangle risk/return/sustainability. You do this by working closely together with your colleagues in business control.
• We strongly believe continuous development is essential for (y)our success. That is why we typically rotate roles and responsibilities in the team after a period.

The Business Control EAA team is part of the Wholesale Europe, Africa & Asia region, reporting to the CFO Europe, Africa and Asia and located primarily in Utrecht. This region covers all Wholesale clusters / product lines (Core lending, Structured Lending, Markets, Advisory & Investments), including regional support and the branch network and with a focus on the client franchises and wholesale lending activities. The EAA loan book totals around 60bn of assets, driving well over half of Rabobank’s global Wholesale performance.

The extended business control team consists of twelve business controllers who are responsible for managing the financial planning & analysis process in the region, of which six are based in Utrecht. Furthermore it provides analyses, benchmarking, scenario analyses etc. to provide insights and robust challenge that drive the strategy, business decisions and In Control-process of the region. The team is also responsible for controlling the execution of initiatives and projects, the performance on the KPIs and the control of the usage of resources such as costs and capital. Lastly the team supports the business in developing new growth opportunities, for example in the Energy and Food Transitions.

Together we achieve more than alone

Working together is the way we work. Our Business Control team joins forces to be professional, ambitious and critical. "Challenge when necessary and contribute where possible!" is our team motto. We value diversity and inclusion, by trying to build teams of diverse culture, gender, national and other backgrounds and with diverse personalities, skills and craftsmanship.

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

• You are a self-starter with a minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in an analytical role; experience in management/strategy consultancy is a plus;
• You are able to solve unclearly defined problems with a significant impact under complex and constantly changing circumstances based on a data-driven analysis;
• Ability to connect with guts, persuasion and change power, social and empathic;
• You are a pioneer of change and demonstrate continuous ability to adapt strategies and support the organization in dealing with a rapidly changing environment;
• You like to be in the foreground as a role model for all layers within the organization and for a wide audience and inspire others;
• A completed university education with a numerical or strategic focus;
• You have skills and/or a strong interest in tooling such as PowerBI and Excel

The application process  

• Applications are open until March 18th, 2025. We appreciate receiving your CV and a short cover letter with your motivation for Rabobank & this position. Apply via the “Apply now” button. Responses will be handled in accordance with our vacancy management policy.
• We are looking for a candidate with experience based on a salary in the middle of scale 10, which means appr. 6.000 gross per month.
• To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country or to provide a visa sponsorship for this position.
• If you have any questions about the specific details of this position, please contact Mike Smulders, Head Control EAA / hiring manager, on +31 6 12970374.
• Alicia van Waveren, Corporate Recruiter, would be happy to answer any questions about the application procedure via alicia.van.waveren@rabobank.nl or Niels.Diks@rabobank.nl
• The application process includes screening. Based on the screening procedures in place at Rabobank, we assess whether new staff are reliable enough to work at Rabobank.
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