Vacature Business Controller Europe, Africa & Asia in Utrecht

Are you a proactive Business Controller ready to make an impact at Rabobank in Utrecht? As a Business Controller for Europe, Africa & Asia, you'll drive meaningful initiatives and decisions by offering insightful analysis and acting as a trusted partner to stakeholders. With a focus on automation and personal impact, you'll enhance business results in the high-tech, high-touch environment of Rabobank.

Analyse and improve top or bottom line results in Wholesale Banking.
Engage in strategic and operational problem-solving.
Contribute to the business control activities, including reporting and planning.

Join Rabobank's dynamic team in the heart of its global wholesale performance. This role is featured on controlcarriere.nl, the niche job platform for Business Controllers with a professional community and newsletter.

This is what we offer you

Gross monthly salary between €3,869 and €5,526 (scale 08)
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

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In this job, your proactive and forward-looking analysis leads to new initiatives and decision making achieving significant improvement in business results. You achieve this by providing new eye-catching 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!

Practical Examples

You analyse and identify areas in Wholesale Banking which our MT-members in the Europe, Africa & Asia region can take action to improve top or bottom line results;
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 know when to zoom in, and when to zoom out. You can work on strategic topics and at the same time you feel comfortable to work on day-to-day operational problem solving;
You connect people and give a personal touch to your advice and thereby create impact within and outside the CFO domain.

Top responsibilities

The role is focused on developing and mastering the full suite of business control activities:

Servicing our business line Project Finance for all business control activities (e.g. reporting, planning, forecasting), where you will be supported by a Senior Business Controller.
Supporting in the management reporting of our largest lending business line (Corporate Lending) and controlling our client coverage team for Financial Sponsors.
Participate in Medium Term Plan (MTP) and Detailed Level Budget (DLB) activities.
Engage in change activities, for example: reduce our cost to serve or improve the operational processes that boost the quality and speed of availability of our numbers.
Cooperating in performance reporting to the management team of Europe, Africa & Asia. With your business control team colleagues you’ll contribute to providing insights in relevant trends and possible improvement initiatives.
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 more responsibility you show you can handle independently, the more your responsibilities will grow.

The Business Control EAA team is part of the Wholesale Europe, Africa & Asia region, reporting to the CFO EAA and located mostly 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 control 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:

A completed university education with a numerical or strategic focus;
You are an energetic self-starter with a minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience in an analytical role; experience in management/strategy consultancy is a plus;
You want to learn quickly and have a (personal) growth mindset;
You are able to solve unclearly defined problems 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 have skills and/or a strong interest in tooling such as PowerBI and Excel.
To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands.

This is what we offer you

A (non-negotiable) gross monthly salary of 5.750k euro (scale 8)
On the basis of a 40h work week
You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

The application process

You can apply until September 30th. We appreciate receiving your CV and a short cover letter with your motivation for this position. Apply via the “Apply now” button. Responses will be handled in accordance with our vacancy management policy.

If you have any questions about the specific details of this position, please contact Mike Smulders, Head Control EAA / hiring manager, via mike.smulders@rabobank.com
Alicia van Waveren, Corporate Recruiter, would be happy to answer any questions about the application procedure via Teams or mail: alicia.van.waveren@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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