Business Controller Global Quality (all genders)

As Business Controller Global Quality Controller, you play a key role for FrieslandCampina in maintaining a full view of total quality costs and enabling effective quality resource and investment allocation across the globe. You work closely with the Global Quality Management Team, advising on strategic choices related to the quality function while ensuring robust financial insights and strong cost control. As a trusted partner to Global Quality and the business, you oversee a €120/130 million portfolio, driving cost optimization, value creation, and measurable business impact through influence and proactive stakeholder management.

In this role you will work closely with a wide variety of stakeholders within the Global Quality department. This position covers three distinctive subfunctions within the Quality function, each with unique and pressing agendas: QC including LQS, QA IFT/Pharma, and Global QA.

We are therefore looking for an experienced, proactive professional with strong communication skills and a proven track record in advancing reporting and performance while owning direct and end-to-end financial responsibility.

What we ask

• Master’s degree, with a minimum of 10 years of working experience in finance.
• Fluent in English; proficiency in Dutch is preferred.
• Strong advisory and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Experience with SAP, PowerBI and Excel.

What we offer

At FrieslandCampina, you work on strong, globally loved brands enjoyed by millions every day, such as Friso, Campina, Chocomel and Frisian Flag. As a farmer-owned cooperative, we combine an international environment with a clear social and sustainable purpose. We support your growth through training, coaching and internal career opportunities. This is a high-impact Hay level 18 role at the core of sustainability and value creation, offering the opportunity to shape and scale valorization of sustainability across markets, with exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic decision-making.

• Hybrid working with flexible working hours, a train card and/or €0.23 per km (max. 30 km one way).
• 200 hours of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell up to 40 hours.
• A laptop, phone and home office equipment to support flexible working.
• Extras at the head office, such as milk and cheese during lunch, fresh fruit and barista coffee.

Role description

In this position, you are the finance business partner to the Global Quality organization, responsible for quality cost transparency, business case support, Performance+ governance, savings validation, reporting, and providing financial decision support for global quality initiatives.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Act as finance business partner to the Global Quality organization and Quality Directors.
• Create, own and generate insights into global Quality costs through periodic reporting, highlighting areas for concern and proposing potential actions.
• Support the preparation of business cases, cost tracking and financial validations.
• Serve as key challenger and sounding board to all savings initiatives, especially P+, ensuring compliance with financial guidelines and clear tracking into the P&L.
• Participate in decision-making for any change or reduction in testing, insourcing, outsourcing and cost-benefit trade-offs, bringing a holistic financial perspective to Quality decisions.

You will be part of the Global Supply Chain - Performance & Reporting team.