At ING we are looking for a Finance Budget Partner

Your role and work environment:

We are looking for a Finance Budget Partner to new segments to help us in our ambition to support the Bank’s growth and diversification achieving commercial and financial targets, while ensuring that we build towards the overall strategy.

You are the key representative from the Finance department in a cross-functional team with colleagues from business, operations and IT to contribute to the launch of new segments and have an impactful partnership with all our stakeholders. This means you fully understand the financial business case of the new segments (specifically Affluents, BuBa) with special focus on the management of the expenses and capacity budget and use this to proactively propose and promote ideas to optimize resources and investments across the bank and bring our strategy into execution.

In your journey towards achieving this challenging target, you will have a global perspective and you will work on efficiency from a global point of view and from different perspectives: Culture, Governance & Way of Working, and Data Monitoring & Visibility.

In this role you are part of a small team (5 FTE) in the Management Accounting area, and besides your direct responsibilities you support your direct colleagues in their roles as Budget Partner to the new segments.

This will grant you with a dynamic environment, growth potential and the possibility to have real impact. You will receive close support and attention from your manager in the delivery of your duties and your professional development.

Your key responsibilities:

What you'll be doing as a Finance Budget Partner to new segments:

• E2E view on the new business segments (Affluents, BuBa), understanding Business case preparation, actuals performance and monitoring and forecasting
  • Participation in the analysis of the business case figures, actively participating in the meetings with all stakeholders.
  • Full control in the actual figures, understanding the external and internal income, risk costs, RWA and balance sheet developments.
  • Full control on the expenses figures and on the capacity evolution. Strong connection with the Business Tribe for sharing the information.
  • Active forecasting, anticipating business developments, in close cooperation with business representatives.
  • Ongoing development and refinement of financial models thanks to the in-depth knowledge of the business (actuals & forecast).

• Being the finance partner to business stakeholders, resulting in an active contributor to the overall strategic partnering/financial planning function in finance
  • Ad hoc analyses & research to support key strategic initiatives & pricing.
  • Share insights and challenge the existing business E2E performance.
  • Collaborate and challenge new business development proposals.

• Being able to translate analyses and business performance into concise and powerful presentations
  • Strategy papers and presentations.
  • Business Performance monitoring.
  • Local Steerco (Affluents, Buba).

• Support the team on process & controls improvement:
  • Inspire and challenge the team to continuously keep developing and gaining the required skills to be the best they can be.
  • Be the leader on process improvement and automation initiatives to free-up resources for value added analysis and tasks.
  • Take the next step in improving, implementation, automation and documentation of controls to further strengthen all key processes.

• Feed your curiosity with research and competition monitoring. Keep an eye on the market!

• Process Understanding & Optimization
  • Ability to understand processes and identify opportunities to simplify them.
  • Committed to driving efficiency both at the bank-wide and team level.
  • Focused on process optimization in the management of the team’s business-as-usual activities.

What are we looking for?

A strong set of technical and analytical abilities:

• Master or bachelor’s degree (preferably in mathematics or engineering) with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a comparable role.
• Full proficiency in Excel (PowerQuery), SAS and SQL.
• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English is a must.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving mindset.
• Global vision. Strategic and creative thinker.
• Ability to simplify complexity.
• Early adopter to new technologies.

A leader of our Orange Code culture displays the following behaviors:

• Excellent interpersonal skills (influencing and communication)
• High level of autonomy and initiative.
• Ability to work on an international level.
• Able to assume personal responsibility.
• High level of curiosity and eager to learn, stay on top of trends and developments within your field and the market.
• Team player. Loving to collaborate with different people.
• Results oriented. Make things happen.
• Flexible to be able to adapt fast to the changes.
• Strong resilience: ability to navigate through ambiguity.

What do we offer?

The time you spend at work, the challenges you face or the lessons you get are very important, but… What about your personal life? At ING we want your work to fill you in every way, and that is why we take care of even the smallest detail.

Check out what is waiting for you!

Flexible schedule and 100% flexible e-working.

Work or e-work? We have a totally flexible model: choose the one that best suits you.

Restaurant card.

So that thinking about what to have for lunch doesn’t take up your time or your cravings.

Our house will be your home.

In our offices you can find electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym, urban orchard, The Good Service (to help you in your arrangements) and much more!

Life insurance.

We hope you don't need to use it!

Health insurance.

For you and all your family (spouse/partner and children).

Flexible retribution.

In addition, you can enjoy our flexible remuneration model, through which you can access other services such as nursery, transport card, training aids…

Free company shuttle.

It doesn't matter where you live. We have 6 routes (North, Central, South, A5, A42 and A6) to get you to work comfortably.

Banking benefits.

Special loan or mortgage terms after 6 months working at the bank.

And benefit from our pension plan after 2 years with us.

More health, more sports.

Runners club with your own trainer.

Clinics with professional, world-class athletes.

Physiotherapy service on site.

Gympass service.

Get to know Us

We are a team of more than 1600 people sharing one idea: doing our bit in helping our clients create a better future for themselves, by providing them with the tools they need to get where they want to go.

A fully online bank where technology, innovation, simplicity and transparency are the main ingredients, and the first one to work with agile methodologies.

And although we are based in Spain, we are lucky to work in an international bank with presence in more than 40 countries.

We are proud to have a diverse team and we are committed to continue developing a culture of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation that represents all collectives in the society.

And even though we look orange on the outside, we are green on the inside. Our ambition in Sustainability is Empowering (y)our Sustainability journey. We are embarking on our path, for us, but we are also there for when our clients decide to embark on this journey.

Making things happen, helping others be successful, always being one step ahead—that’s our DNA. If you look at yourself in the mirror and your reflection matches our way of being and working…we are looking forward to meeting you!