Your new 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.
Finance Wholesale Bank NL is responsible for the financial accounting and statutory and regulatory reporting of all Wholesale activities in ING's home market, with a Balance Sheet of +300 billion euro. This scope includes the full range of WB product lines including Financial Markets, Corporate Lending and Corporate Investments.
In our Finance team you can get involved in assignments that cover every aspect of the Finance world, from accounting dilemmas to Basel regulation updates to technical challenges in one of the cross-border processes that constitute the E2E chain we need to oversee. Working at ING Finance Wholesale Bank will provide you with a wide range of experiences with significant responsibilities and development opportunities. If you have a strong can-do-attitude, you will excel in our organization.
This vacancy is in a Finance team of 7 people. It is a very diverse group of people in terms of nationalities, ages, experience and gender where we find it important everyone can feel part of the team and work on what are their talents.
Responsibilities
The role of a Financial Controller is among others to:
- be responsible to ensure quality control over financial and regulatory reporting. This includes analytical reviews based on accounting and business knowledge as well as consistency checks between financial and regulatory reports.
- participate in projects by clarifying data definitions and proposing solutions
- guarantee compliance with control frameworks
- keep the overview over end-to-end Finance processes, being executed across multiple countries.
- advise senior management and the business partners on the accounting and reporting impact of large transactions such as intercompany transfers, legal mergers, divestments or acquisitions and newly developed products and business changes.
- participate in projects implementing new systems and process changes where you are responsible to set and implement accounting, reporting and control requirements.
Current topics to work on include analytical reviews, annual accounts, accounting schemes, FinRep, AnaCredit, Deposit Guarantee Scheme, liquidity reporting and many other forms of reporting and analyses.
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:
- 7+ years of prior relevant work experience in a banking environment (Financial/ Risk) or BIG4 in Audit or consultancy
- Experience with either statutory or regulatory reporting
- Knowledge of IFRS
- Strong analytical skills: you are able to understand, correlate and explain complex matters in a simple way and you like to fact check statements of your own or others
- Aware of the importance of data for a bank
- Ready to make the link between regulation and technology
- Driven and customer focused, loving to collaborate with people in various roles and squads
This role is classified as a Financial Accounting Controller IV job in function scale 11 which means we expect you to:
- Work on the analyses linked to certain WB entities. These analyses cover accounting and all statutory or regulatory reports.
- Have all necessary content knowledge to ensure you are at all times in control for your entities/reports, both in terms of internal controls as well as from a regulatory perspective.
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
Want to apply directly?
Interested? Great! Please note that applications are reviewed after the 6th of January due to the Holiday period. We can only consider your application if you have a suitable cover letter attached to your most recent CV.
Upload your CV and cover letter by clicking the "Apply" button. Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.
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
- 12-month contract with view to extend
- Relocation package if you are living outside the Netherlands
- 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
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!
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