Financial Manager Leasing Benelux

Country: Netherlands

Will you be the one to complete our “Matchmakers in Mobility” team?

Your role and the team

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for finance and leadership? At Santander Leasing, you will have the opportunity as a Finance Manager to play a key role in shaping our capital plan and achieving our business objectives. In this challenging role, you will drive the financial management of our entity and subsidiaries, making an impact at both strategic and operational levels. You will work closely with our senior management and support the Management Board and Supervisory Board with sound financial analysis, reporting and forecasting.

With your experience in a multinational environment and knowledge of operational leasing, you are the expert we are looking for to optimize our financial processes, coordinate audits and contribute to strategic processes such as M&A and due diligence. Do you have proven successes in a leadership role and are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we invite you to make a difference at Santander Leasing.

Your duties and responsibilities in short.

• Define the strategic capital plan and budget as part of the entity's strategic plan, including capital objectives, capital structure and actions required to achieve these objectives.

• Ensure the local embedding of the Accounting and Financial & Management Corporate Framework, as well as the development and updating of related internal regulations (models, policies and procedures), using the standards provided by the Group as reference, and adapting them to local regulations and standards, as appropriate, and ensuring group validation where necessary.

• Design, propose and implement appropriate strategies/actions to achieve the targeted balance.

• Provide proper support to the internal audit process and ensure recovery of internal audit recommendations, as well as coordination of external audits and preparation of financial statements.

• Prepare and monitor monthly reports, budgeting and forecasts to Management Board and Supervisory Board.

• Leading the entity's senior management and advising other functions, such as the Supervisory Boards.

• Consolidation and administration of subsidiary(ies).

• Financing lease portfolio and maintaining contacts with external financiers.

• Preparation of VPB returns and other tax matters.

• Support of M&A/Due-Diligence processes.

You are

• Proven successful in a relatively demanding and commercially broad leadership role in a multinational environment, with experience in the operational leasing industry as a plus.

• Experienced in working within a matrix organization, being part of the management team with a direct reporting line to the CEO of Santander Leasing and a functional reporting line to the CFO of Santander Consumer Finance S.A., Branch Netherlands.

• Familiar with Excel and Business Intelligence.

• In possession of a completed, relevant education at HBO level.

• Possessing good communication skills in Dutch and English (fluent).

Core competencies

• No question is too crazy for you because you want to exceed the customer's expectations.

• You are innovative and proactive; you don't just do something because it has been that way for years.

• Further competencies: directing, flexible, analytical ability, collaborative, committed.

We are part of

We are part of Santander Consumer Finance SA, Branch Netherlands which is one of the largest financial institutions in the world and part of the Santander Group. We have been active in the consumer finance market since 1985. Our head office is located in Utrecht and our branch office in Merelbeke (near Ghent) in Belgium. Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together we are part of the Santander Group, a global player.

Check santander.nl for further information about our activities.

What makes Santander different and unique?

We work with a variety of nationalities both internally and externally. Initiative is valued, as is humor. We encourage creativity and brainstorm new ideas together. We have an open company culture with an informal working atmosphere, and we regularly organize parties and other activities.

Ready for this challenge?

Apply now and help build our future! Please respond by sending your application to [email protected].

* 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.