Controller Strategic Finance
Underpin strategic decisions with financial excellence
How do you make our customers happy?
By ensuring we implement financial strategies that measurably improve our platform performance for 13.7 million customers and 46,000 partners. As the Controller of Strategic Finance, you transform complex financial data into actionable insights that guide investment decisions and operational improvements. Your scenarios trigger strategic discussions at the board level to challenge and strengthen our longer-term plans. Ready to turn financial expertise into strategic impact?
The biggest challenge
Working towards long-term strategic goals while expertly handling high-pressure ad hoc requests. You will need to translate vast amounts of financial data into compelling ‘three-bullet stories’ that engage stakeholders at all levels, including the board. How do you combine deep-dive analysis with executive-ready synthesis? How do you constructively challenge conventional thinking? You’ll need superb modeling skills, talent to thrive under pressure, and a gift for stakeholder management to maximize your impact.
What you'll do as Controller of Strategic Finance
As part of the Business Planning team, you’ll serve as a crucial link between detailed financial analysis and board-level decision-making. You’ll translate our strategic ambitions into robust briefings and proposals, and report these to senior finance leadership. Your analyses will directly influence investment decisions, operational strategies, and shareholder communications.
You will work on developing our long-term strategic plan, diving deep into financial details before zooming out to craft a compelling narrative. Through sophisticated modeling and scenario analysis, you will provide insight into the effects of changing market circumstances on risks and opportunities and craft recommendations that resonate. Your presentations distill complex concepts into clear, actionable insights – often in just a few powerful bullets. Working under pressure is part of the role – you will handle urgent ad hoc requests while maintaining focus on long-term strategic initiatives. You’ll gather input from across the organization, ensuring all perspectives are captured on time and incorporated effectively. Your key responsibilities:
- Drive the development and communication of long-term strategic plans with leadership
- Present financial analyses to senior management and board members
- Build sophisticated financial models and translate strategic plans into financial constructs
- Translate complex insights into executive-ready presentations and three-bullet summaries
- Manage diverse stakeholders to ensure timely input for planning processes
- Collaborate in a cross-functional environment to ensure all relevant perspectives are considered
- Manage ad hoc requests without losing sight of ongoing priorities
- Challenge the status quo and propose innovative new financial strategies
Why you can make a difference
You combine 4-7 years of finance experience with exceptional modeling and analytical skills. Your background in FP&A or management consulting has prepared you to transition effortlessly between granular details and big-picture storytelling. With a relevant master’s degree and advanced financial expertise, your advice withstands board-level scrutiny. You excel at PowerPoint and data visualization and can condense even the most complex analysis into a compelling story. Beyond technical prowess, you have the confidence to present to senior executives (or the eagerness to develop this talent quickly). You thrive under pressure, managing multiple stakeholder relationships while delivering quality work on tight deadlines.
3 reasons why this is (not) for you
Switch to find out
- - Surface skimmer You put more faith in high-level overviews than deep modeling to vet strategic recommendations
- - Model maintainer You prefer tweaking existing frameworks to building new approaches from scratch
- - Boardroom avoider You crumble in discussions that can determine the course of a company
- + Detail-to-story master You dive deep into financial minutiae and resurface with crystal-clear narratives that the board instantly grasps
- + Collaborative influencer You build bridges between finance and the business, ensuring financial insights translate into strategic action
- + Pressure performer Ad hoc requests and tight deadlines energize rather than stress you – you always deliver excellence
Where you'll work
You will join a dynamic Business Planning team at the heart of bol’s decision-making engine. Here, we help shape the future of one of Europe’s leading retail tech platforms. The environment combines high performance with collaborative support – we challenge each other’s thinking while working toward shared goals. Leadership exposure is part of daily life, and we’ll happily support your growth in executive communication. With 2,800 colleagues serving millions of customers, your financial insights will have a substantial impact on both the business strategy and the customer experience. Ready to join? Let’s explore how you will contribute to our continued growth and success.
We take pride in our B Corp certification and strive for continuous improvement every day. Our annual bonus is tied to sustainability goals, and we are committed to equality and equal opportunities for all.
Perks of having a blue heart
On and off
At bol we understand like no other that you have to take care of yourself first, then your enviroment and then bol. In that order. Therefore, everyone at bol receives 19 days of vacation.
The culture and the office
Our colleagues work hard to make the daily lives of our customers easier and more fun. But of course, we do this in an inspiring and creative environment!
Relocation
Bol wants to ensure that you make the best possible transition. We offer relocation assistance to the Netherlands form the moment you have the job.
