Netherlands Job Openings
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Business controller
Rotterdam
FULL TIME & PART TIME
August 30, 2024
Introduction
At Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) we are currently looking for a business controller to contribute to our school’s financial and economic strategy and its planning and control cycle.As Business controller you work for the department Business & Project Control. You are part of a team of 5 employees and will contribute to the further professionalization through new vision and developments. You are the perfect candidate if you can easily connect with colleagues and communicate well at the different levels within the faculty. In doing so, you take responsibility for identifying and addressing issues. With your analytical skills, your eye for detail and your problem-solving abilities, you quickly see where the priorities lie. You are result-oriented and work towards the deadlines without losing sight of the relationships. Experience in the public sector is a requirement!
RSM is one of the schools of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and operates within the framework of EUR’s financial administration and planning and control cycles. As business controller, you liaise frequently with EUR central, and you participate in various meetings and committees to provide RSM’s input in the development of new initiatives. You also cooperate intensively with finance and control colleagues at RSM BV, which is closely aligned with RSM-EUR under the ‘One-School’ principle.
Job description
For this function, you ensure the following:- Advise on and implement RSM’s Planning and Control cycle.
- Organise and implement the annual budget cycle (budget, prognoses, annual accounts and reporting).
- Manage RSM’s financial processes and administrative organisation, and align them with the school’s strategy.
- Represent RSM in EUR central demand management meetings to provide input on quality, quantity and costs of service delivery in the fields of finance, control, risk and procurement.
- Give input and coordinate the control measures for externally funded research projects.
- Line manage the business and project control unit.
- Contribute to the improvement of management information for planning and strategy formulation purposes.
Job requirements
Your experience includes, but is not limited to the following:- A master degree in a relevant field; e.g., business economics, accounting and control, or comparable, with accompanying high level analytical skills.
- Demonstrable, high-level knowledge related to developments in business control, accounting, finance, administrative organisation and/or risk management.
- A minimum of five years of experience in the field, preferably in a higher education setting and/or in the public domain.
- Knowledge of and experience with the rules and financial rules and regulations of national grants and European framework programmes.
- Experience with managing teams of finance professionals.
- Excellent written and spoken English (C1) and Dutch (C1) for internal and external communications.
- Affinity with and an understanding of academics and the academic world.
- Hands-on experience in SAP Fico, Purchase to Pay systems and Excel.
- Have a clear vision on business control and can translate this vision into concrete actions, projects and deliverables for the organisation;
- Are in possession of high-level analytical and planning skills;
- Achieve results and get things done by being persuasive, decisive and/or diplomatic, depending on what the situation calls for;
- Are a good people manager, who leads by example, has a hands-on mentality and stimulates development and growth in the team;
- Are accurate and have attention to detail;
- Have good social skills and the ability to navigate successfully in a complex organisation and with multiple stakeholders;
- Are pro-active and take initiatives to continuously improve policy and processes; and
- Possess excellent advisory skills and can counsel various stakeholders at various levels in the organisation.
Employment conditions and benefits
This is a full-time position (0,8-1 FTE) with an initial one-year contract. Upon successful performance, we intend to make your placement permanent after one year.The conditions of employment comply with the collective labour agreement for Dutch universities (CAO NU). Favourable tax agreements may apply to you as an applicant if you are not from the Netherlands.
Salary is subject to training and experience and may vary from a minimum of € 3,345 (CAO NU scale 10) and up to a maximum of € 6,148 gross per month (scale 11 CAO NU), based on a full-time contract of 38 hours.
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8 per cent, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3 per cent, and a considerable amount of vacation days.
As an EUR employee, we offer you an annual personal career budget which you can use to advance your skills and competences. There are lots of training, development and coaching opportunities at EUR too.
Erasmus University Rotterdam aspires to be an equitable and inclusive community. We nurture an open culture, where everyone is supported to fulfil their full potential. We see inclusivity of talent as the basis of our successes, and the diversity of perspectives and people as a highly valued outcome. EUR provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, functional impairment, citizenship or any other aspect which makes them unique. We look forward to welcoming you to our community.
Employer
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) is an internationally oriented university with a strong social orientation in its education and research, as expressed in our mission ‘Creating positive societal impact’. EUR is home to 4.100 academics and professionals and almost 33.000 students from more than 140 countries. Everything we do, we do under the credo The Erasmian Way – Making Minds Matter. We’re global citizens, connecting, entrepreneurial, open-minded, and socially involved. These Erasmian Values function as our internal compass and create EUR’s distinctive and recognizable profile. From these values, with a broad perspective and with an eye for diversity, different backgrounds and opinions, our employees work closely together to solve societal challenges from the dynamic and cosmopolitan city of Rotterdam. Thanks to the high quality and positive societal impact of our research and education, EUR can compete with the top European universities. www.eur.nl.Faculty / Institute / Central service
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. RSM provides ground-breaking research and education furthering excellence in all aspects of management and is based in the international port city of Rotterdam – a vital nexus of business, logistics and trade. RSM’s primary focus is on developing business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. Our first-class range of bachelor, master, MBA, Ph D and executive programmes encourage them to become critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinkers and doers.www.rsm.nl
RSM is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities and nationalities.
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Applying
Have you become enthusiastic about this position after reading the vacancy, and are you ready to apply? Please upload your recent CV and cover letter by clicking on the ‘apply’-button in the top right corner. The vacancy will close on Sunday the 22nd of September 2024.The application procedure will consist of two interviews. Do you have questions about the procedure? Please feel free to reach out to our Steef Arends, Corporate Recruiter, via steef.arends@eur.nl or 06-38950814. In case of any questions related to the job rol itself, you can reach out to Iris Ramaker, Business Controller via email at ramaker@rsm.nl or via telephone at 06-42890821.
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