Business Controller

We’re hiring: Business Controller – COO in Amsterdam HQ

The team:

This is a head office role at ING, part of the Global COO organization. You’ll be a trusted advisor for the senior management of the one of COO domains. Your advice will be based on the insights you obtain from the financial analyses and taking to various stakeholders in the Netherlands and locations, with the focus on the development of the value drivers. Next to the regular work, you also participate as a financial expert in strategic projects on an ad-hoc basis.

This is not accounting. Not project control. This is true Business Control / FP&A at the global level, where your analysis and advice directly influence strategy and performance for the whole bank.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Management Teams of your domain
• Lead budgeting & forecasting, aligning and challenging senior stakeholders across all locations and the Head Office.
• Translate complex financials into sharp, actionable insights.
• Drive discussions on cost modelling, allocation, and efficiency.
• Support strategic initiatives and transformation projects with financial expertise.

How to Succeed:

• At least 7 years of proven experience in Business Control and/or FP&A. (If your background is only in accounting or project control, this role is not a fit.)
• Strong communication and influencing skills - confidence with senior stakeholders
• Able to navigate a large, complex, and often ambiguous global matrix organization - proactive, resilient, and not thrown off by competing priorities
• Analytical, hands-on, and comfortable challenging the status quo
• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint; Power BI, Hyperion, SmartView are a plus

What we offer

• A senior, high-impact role with visibility to the COO senior leadership and Group Finance
• A place in a high-performing team of 7 finance professionals driving performance at group level
• Career opportunities within ING’s global finance community of hundreds of professionals in the Netherlands and abroad

Ready to step up as a senior finance business partner and shape the future of the COO Analytics and ODCR at ING? Apply now.

Rewards & benefits 

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary indication tailored to your qualities and experience.

• 36 or 40 hour workweek

• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek

• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)

• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• Attractive pension scheme

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!