Accounting and Reporting Expert – COO Finance

Your work environment

ING’s strategy is centered around providing a best in class experience to its customers, aiming to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and business. Innovation is considered to be a core enabler to accomplish this mission, especially given the fast changing environment we live in today. From a Finance perspective this means being in control at all times of ING’s financials while making sure that ING continuously adapts to meet the changing and more data oriented regulatory and statutory reporting requirements.

The Chief Operations Officer (COO) domain builds bridges within ING linking to almost every part of the bank. Its purpose is to drive secure, efficient processes for our customers and colleagues.
ING wants to set up a bank-wide COO organisation that's ready for the future, with scalable, seamless, digital, and resilient operations. To help us achieve this, COO identified three main ways to make the most impact:

• Building a network organisation: more networking and cross-border collaboration.
• Consolidating the organisation: share capabilities and services in locations where we can best embed these.
• Digitalisation/straight-through processing: making our processes end-to-end to provide a seamlessly digital experience for our customers.

Global COO Finance is an independent unit within ING’s COO domain, reporting hierarchically into ING’s Chief Financial Officer and functionally into ING’s Chief Operations Officer.

Global COO Finance (COOF) is accountable for designing the global finance operations and technology strategy (together with ING’s TECH organisation) and optimising productivity and customer satisfaction in Operations to improve operational efficiency. It is accountable for executing ING Finance and COO strategy to evolve towards one global digital bank, is responsible for performance of Operations, the operating model, decisions on sourcing and all relevant regulatory and Risk topics.

The purpose of COOF: We apply our expertise to deliver best-in-class, compliant and future proof services, partnering with our consumers to enable strategic decision making.

About the role

The role of an Accounting & Reporting Expert is among others to:

• analyze and comment on changing accounting/regulatory requirements
• participate in projects by clarifying data definitions and proposing solutions
• use analytics tools to support the reporting processes
• guarantee compliance with control frameworks
• keep the overview over end-to-end Finance processes

Current topics to work on include BCBS 239, FinRep, Corep, AnaCredit, liquidity reporting and many other forms of statutory and regulatory reporting.

We expect you to work on the production, changes and analyses linked to a certain statutory or regulatory report. And have all necessary content knowledge to ensure you are at all times in control for your reports, both in terms of internal controls as well as from a regulatory perspective.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. 

Furthermore, you have:

• Current residency in the Netherlands
• 2+ years of relevant work experience. Prior work experience in a banking environment is preferred
• Experience with either statutory or regulatory reporting is preferred
• Familiarity with international accounting standards (IFRS)
• Ready to make the link between regulation and technology
• Driven and customer focused, loving to collaborate with people in various roles and squads
• Passionate about innovation
• Able to work in an autonomous way and to take initiative
• Making things happen thanks to your ‘can do’ attitude
• Problem solving mindset
• Aware of the importance of data for a bank and a strong drive to perform
• Analytically strong with an eye for detail

As an ambassador of our Orange Code culture you display the following behaviors:

• Driven and customer focused, loving to collaborate with different people
• Able to motivate, empower and stimulate people
• Analytical mindset and solutions oriented
• Continuously challenging the status quo and taking decisions

Our offer

Working at ING means working in a dynamic and international setting. Individual development of our employees is very important and that is why ING offers excellent courses and programs. You will become a member of the Finance Domestic Bank tribe, a no-nonsense and progressive tribe known for qualitative deliveries. We strive to achieve the best and therefore need talented and driven colleagues.

• Challenging yet fun and constructive environment
• Working with highly skilled people, experts in their domains
• Working in an area which is of regulatory importance to ING
• An international atmosphere
• Great training and learning opportunities

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 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
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

Want to apply directly?

Upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button. 

Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

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!