Project Controller

In this challenging role, you will be responsible for the financial management of various projects. You will support (complex) projects from the acquisition phase through to financial completion. As a project controller, you are the financial expert who plays a key role in assessing project budgets. You provide a critical perspective on project progress and forecasts, evaluating them against the project budget and funding conditions, while identifying and closely monitoring financial risks.

In addition to your financial expertise, you are a trusted sparring partner for project leaders and business controllers within the research groups. You ensure that project files are accurate and complete. In short, you make sure every project runs smoothly from a financial standpoint.

You will work independently, but also closely with colleagues from Finance & Control and the Research Liaison Office. With your professional expertise, you make a valuable contribution to the ongoing professionalization of our Finance & Control department.

Thanks in part to your work, the financing of many large research projects becomes possible — projects that contribute to the important societal theme of animal and human health. The Department of Animal Sciences is committed to and promotes internationally leading education and research on the functioning of animals in nature and in relation to humans. The department has an annual turnover of over €45 million.

Join us as our new Project Controller in the Department of Animal Sciences.

You will be a good addition to our team if you:

• have a higher professional education (HBO+) level of working and thinking in business economics, accountancy, or a similar financial study;
• preferably have a few years of relevant work experience within a (project) organization;
• are strong analytically, work carefully, structured, and result-oriented;
• are willing to develop yourself;
• use your communication skills to build a bridge between project leaders and F&C;
• have good command of both spoken and written Dutch and English;
• want to work both independently and in a team.

Location: Wageningen
You will also recognize the following skills in yourself: you like to take initiative, you are flexible, honest, accurate, and always looking for opportunities to further develop yourself.

In our international working environment, communication is increasingly conducted in English. The required language level is B2. More information about this level can be found in the document Language Level. If you do not yet have this level, we will of course support you, and you can make use of our Wageningen in’to Language center.

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed year-end bonus of 8,3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer you, depending on your experience, a market-based salary of up to €4,929 for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the Wageningen Research CLA (scale 9). This position is a 32-hour workweek. We'll initially offer you a one-year contract, which can be extended based on satisfactory performance, if possible within the (business-economic) organizational circumstances.

Wageningen University & Research offers plenty of opportunities for growth and development, with a strong internal recruitment policy and excellent training programmes.

The mission of Wageningen University & Research is “To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life”. Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 30 branches, 7,600 employees (6,700 fte) and 13,100 students and over 150,000 participants to WUR’s Life Long Learning, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. The unique Wageningen approach lies in its integrated approach to issues and the collaboration between different disciplines.

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We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.