Junior Business Controller | Santander Consumer Finance SA

Country: Netherlands

Your role and the team

As a Junior Controller you have an important role in the profitability and financial analysis for the business operations of the company. With your reports, information and analysis you provide Management the right tools for decision-making processes. The Junior Business Controller is mainly working on the monthly reporting and analysis of internal and HQ requested information. Besides all that, you work close with the accounting department to ensure solid month-end processes. The Junior Business Controller will report directly to the Head of Controlling Leasing. Result-oriented work is important. Both as a team and on an individual level. Read more about how or view our culture and vacancies on our website: About us | Santander Bank

You are

A Controller with a minimum of 1-3 years' work experience in a similar role. In this period, you have built up good skills with regard to reporting and financial- and profitability analysis. A result-oriented and accurate professional with good organizational and planning skills who is capable of working independently as well as in (project) teams.

What do we expect from you

• Support in critical areas such as Monthly Closing, Planning, Forecasting and Profitability analysis;
• Provide timely and accurate delivery of month end reporting (internal and corporate);
• Support during the Budgeting processes, communicating with other departments and ensuring timely, accurate and complete drafting of budgets, budget analysis, rolling forecasts and reporting to Management and HQ.
• Provide support on internal and external business cases;
• Working close to the Accounting team, ensure solid month-end closing, guaranteeing early communication of events that may affect in a significant way the financial statements of the unit;
• On a monthly basis, perform accurate, timely and complete reports required by the Management and from HQ, ensuring quality and qualitative analysis (for Netherlands, Benelux and Conso level);
• Lead continuous improvement of Internal and Corporate Reporting, driving additional automation in monthly reporting cycle;
• Produce Analytical Accounting and other profitability reports;
• Ensure compliance and implementation of Corporate policies, processes and tools;
• Participate in Company projects related to information systems and perform follow-up of the development of projects within the Company;

You have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree;
• The skills to communicate properly with stakeholders in the company (informal and presentations) and have an attitude of focusing on the results;
• Good command of English (spoken and written) is essential, good command of Dutch (spoken and written) is preferred;
• The ability to identify bottlenecks and take the initiative to improve processes.
• Knowledge of credit products, lease products and components is a clear advantage;
• Good command of Microsoft Excel;
• Knowledge of SQL, PowerBI is an advantage.

About us

We are
Santander Consumer Finance. We have been active in the consumer finance market in the Netherlands since 1985 (car financing, personal loans and stock financing). In the Netherlands, we serve our customers from our office in Utrecht, and since 1992 also in Belgium from our office in Merelbeke (near Ghent). The leasing company Santander Leasing is also part of Santander (in the Netherlands with offices in Den Bosch, and in Belgium from Merelbeke). Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together, we are part of the Santander Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

What makes Santander, Santander?
We work with many different nationalities. Showing initiative is appreciated by us, just like humor. We stimulate creativity and spar with each other about new ideas. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.

We offer

With us you get the unique opportunity to collaborate internally with 20 different nationalities. We see our colleagues as our capital. This means that we are happy to help you grow and hope that you are ready to seize the opportunities and challenges as they arise. With us, initiative is appreciated, creativity is stimulated and new ideas are always welcome. In our open corporate culture with an informal atmosphere, there is plenty of room to develop your career.

In addition to a salary in line with market rates, we offer a fixed 13th month and holiday allowance. You get 27 days of leave per year, a performance bonus of max 10%, participation in the collective pension scheme with 5% contribution, 10% contribution for the collective health insurance and various training opportunities.

Enthusiastic?

Join the team! This is your chance to use your talent in a dynamic, international organization. Please respond via this link: 

*Screening is part of the application process. We check, based on the screening procedures in place within Santander, whether new employees are sufficiently reliable to perform work at Santander.

*We have a strong risk culture and expect all our professionals, regardless of their position, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired.