(Junior) Business Controller

Have you recently graduated or are you at the start of your career? Are you interested in finance, data analysis, automation and technology, and would you like to work for an organisation committed to tackling important societal challenges in food, health and sustainability?

Then this could be your opportunity.

At Wageningen University & Research (WUR), we are looking for a (Junior) Business Controller who wants to further develop into a financial professional. As a (Junior) Business Controller, you will work in a dynamic environment on a wide range of strategic and policy-related financial issues.

Your responsibilities include:

• Supporting budgets, quarterly reports and financial analyses for different parts of the organisation;
• Working together with colleagues to prepare management information and organisation-wide reports;
• Analysing financial developments and identifying opportunities for improvement;
• Contributing ideas on how data, automation and technology can be applied within Finance;
• Improving processes and reports to help colleagues gain faster and better insights;
• Supporting a variety of financial and business-related questions from across the organisation.

Depending on your experience, interests and development, we will work with you to determine which responsibilities best suit you.

Your team
The Corporate Finance & Control (CF&C) department is responsible for WUR's financial policy and financial information at corporate level. CF&C consists of two teams: Corporate Business Control and Financial Accounting & Internal Control.

You will join the Corporate Business Control team. Together with your colleagues, you will work on budgets, reports, analyses and financial issues that directly contribute to the strategic direction and development of WUR. At the same time, we help the organisation work smarter by further automating processes and exploring and applying new technologies.