Finance Business Advice Consultant

Do you want to make impact by supporting ING’s management team and businesses in all financial aspects and contribute to make a difference for our customers? Join us!

Innovation in Finance

We are looking for a Consultant with strong expertise in structuring impactful presentations, streamlining and optimizing business processes, and managing data requests and input collection to support strategic decision-making to strengthen our Central Advice and Planning team. In Finance we are looking for people with a talent for taking ownership and making it happen, an enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a capability for always being a step ahead. In return we offer personal growth & challenging work, an open and dynamic environment and a progressive and forward-looking mentality.

Your new role

Our Finance Business Advice department is a management accounting department with a strong focus on advice. We act as financial conscience via the role of business partner for all departments within the domestic bank of ING in the Netherlands. Currently we are looking for a consultant for business processes and optimization strategies.

You will be responsible for Business Performance, Strategic Analytics & Process Optimization, working closely with business partners across the organization to provide analytics and insights and give independent strategic advice.

Provide financial result presentations, analyses and advice to relevant stakeholders

• Ensure high quality, first time right deliverables
• Actively develop relationships with your business partners and act as a trusted advisor by supporting the leads with strategic analysis to steer the business
• Proactively look for ways to improve the content and processes, keeping it relevant in the current fast-changing environment

Be involved in the overall budgeting and forecasting process

• Be responsible for providing accurate forward looking financial plans
• Play a strong role in challenging and aligning with business controllers and stakeholders on forecasted and actual financial developments
• Analyze actuals and derive action points

Play an active role in the FBA department

• Work on overarching projects which cover the full bank
• Actively work and think along in the team to look for possible efficiencies in our processes and to improve business relevant insights

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:

• Current residency in the Netherlands and can work 50% hybrid and be in the office more if needed
• A financial Master degree
• Experience in consulting within a bank, sincere interest in banking and a curious attitude in market developments
• Experience in translating complex data into sound advice
• Experience in giving independent strategic advice to senior management
• Understanding of P&L and Balance Sheet dynamics of financial institutions
• Ability to analyze existing business processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies
• Ability to design and implement process optimization strategies
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and document processes
• Ability to develop and maintain process maps, procedures, and guidelines
• Proven advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to recommend new ways to improve data quality and efficiency

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.

• 12-month contract with view to extend
• 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

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.