Senior Finance Advice expert for Finance Wholesale Banking

Your role and work environment

The Finance Business Advice team for WB Lending (LS), Transaction Services (TS) and Capital Markets and Advisory (CMA) is the financial sparring partner of the Wholesale (WB) product heads. The team is responsible for analyzing and providing business advice including management information towards the WB LS, TS and CMA MTs to support the MT members in further improving the product performance and meeting the Financial KPI’s. Our team members cooperate with many internal stakeholders such as the product MT’s, Group & WB Finance, WB CTO, Treasury, Risk, Corporate Strategy and Finance Operations (COOF).

We are looking for a curious and enthusiastic team player who likes to act as linking pin between finance and business. Our future colleague should be curious to understand what is behind the numbers, to translate data into executable business opportunities. In addition, the successful candidate will coordinate and prepare quarterly Performance Dialogues (MBB review of quarterly actuals), yearly Dynamic Plan and Rolling Forecasts for the respective products.

Your role would be located in CFO Wholesale Banking Finance department in Amsterdam and you report to the head of Business Advice LS, TS & CMA. This team consists of 8 Finance professionals, all with their own expertise and several years of experience at various levels of the organization. You will interact with different stakeholders across the globe.

Your key responsibilities

As business controller within the Business Advice LS, TS & CMA team you have the following key responsibilities:

• You create strong and productive networks across the business to ensure a flow of relevant information, while maintaining an independent, objective finance view.
• Your primary responsibility is to provide the business with timely and accurate analyses and advice in order to empower them to further improve the performance of their products and to achieve their financial KPI’s;
• You cooperate with the business to develop Business Cases (based on product, Tech and / or Operations improvement opportunities);
• You participate in the actuals reporting and forecasting process to facilitate the commercial steering of the business, in line with the overall planning process set by Group Finance. You challenge the business heads and regional heads on their financial plans and advice on adjustments;
• You develop, implement and improve product profitability reporting. You make sure the business (and finance) receives accurate financial information needed to make decisions in a timely and efficient way;
• You participate in and support team involvement in multiple cross-functional projects and virtual teams within WB Finance to improve collaboration within both Finance and business;
• You focus on continuous improvements and look for efficiencies in our analyses, presentations, reporting and communication processes;
• You maintain relationships with regional and local finance Teams, to discuss (local) developments and challenge them on their local reporting (actuals/forecast).

What you bring

As business controller within the Business Advice team you bring the following:

• You have excellent stakeholder management skills. You easily develop your networks and are able to connect people and communicate clearly;
• You have the ability to combine in-dept knowledge of the Wholesale business with large financial datasets and translate this into information and advice to improve the P&L and / or BS and consequently performance of the business line: a business partner that adds value to the business;
• You ensure effective processes, drive automation and improve data quality to strengthen the data-driven organization;
• You are able to understand how different data sources are related and combine these in integrated reports;
• You demonstrate ING Orange Code behaviors by participating in and supporting team involvement in multiple cross-functional projects and virtual teams to improve collaboration and improving operational excellence.

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/are:

• Experience in a comparable role in a banking environment
• Strong analytical skills: able to understand and explain complex matters quickly
• Customer focus and commercial mindset. Understands the potential customer needs. Ability to deliver quality of work should match with high standards of our stakeholders
• Advanced skills in MS office (Excel, Powerpoint- Thinkcell). Preferable you have the ability to analyze large datasets using PowerBI and / or Python
• Initiative: creates opportunities and openings, the use of scenario analysis, and deep dives to get an idea of the future context
• Develop networks, building long-term relationships
• In the possession of the right to work in the EU

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

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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!