
Senior Transformation Controller
€6,378 - €8,504 per month
Key Skills
Job Description
Are you an experienced finance professional who can combine strong controlling skills with strategic judgement? The Group Strategy & Transformation Office, led by Regina Bruijnaers, is looking for a senior controller to strengthen the financial steering of transformation initiatives across NN beyond Future Ready. In this role, you will act as a senior financial sparring partner to the transformation: review and challenge business cases, track cost and benefit developments, and turn complex transformation updates into a clear, easy-to-follow storyline for senior management.
You will be part of Performance & Analytics, while fully supporting the Group Strategy & Transformation Office. This gives you the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance and strategic transformation supporting transformational business cases and the related executive decision-making, with a clear focus on helping NN translate transformation investments into measurable value.
What you are going to do
- Review and challenge business cases for transformation initiatives during and beyond the Future Ready programme, ensuring robust assumptions, clear value drivers and alignment with strategic priorities
- Assess the quality of investment, cost, benefit and payback assumptions, including sensitivities, risks and dependencies
- Track actual costs and benefits against plan and forecast, and identify deviations, opportunities and attention points that require (executive) management focus
- Challenge cost and benefit developments with business leads, business units, finance colleagues and the Transformation Office
- Prepare clear, helicopter view and insight-driven updates for senior management, including Management Board and steering committee materials where relevant
- Translate complex financial and transformation information into a simple storyline, focused on what matters and what decisions may be needed
- Support prioritisation and steering discussions by bringing together financial, business and transformation insights
- Help further professionalise the value management approach, including reporting rhythm, templates, definitions and standards
- Ensure disciplined adherence to approved business cases and robust financial reporting and filing, working closely with Group Finance colleagues to safeguard accuracy, consistency and compliance
What we offer you
NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:
- Salary between €6,378 and €8,504 per month based on 36 hours, depending on your knowledge and experience
- 13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
- 27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and three Diversity Days
- A modern pension administered by BeFrank
- Plenty of training and learning opportunities
- NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometers travelled
- Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use
- A permanent internal position with direct exposure to NN Group transformation initiatives and contribute to senior-management decision-making. It is a role within Performance & Analytics, with 100% dedication to supporting the Transformation Office
Who you are
We are looking for a senior finance professional who can quickly see the bigger picture, while remaining sharp on the underlying numbers. You are able to identify the few items that really matter, challenge constructively, and communicate your conclusions in a way that senior stakeholders can easily follow.
- You have a financial, economics, business or related university degree and substantial experience in controlling, performance management, business planning, strategic finance, transformation finance or consulting. You have strong communication skills in English and preferably Dutch
- You are able to operate at senior level, capturing the helicopter view, judgement and stakeholder awareness (expected from a Hay 18 profile)
- You have experience with business case review, investment monitoring, cost/benefit tracking, preparing and presenting forecasting and reporting for senior-management
- You can distinguish key attention items from detail and translate complex developments into a clear storyline for executives. You are structured, pragmatic and curious, with the confidence to ask the right questions
- You are confident in constructively challenging assumptions and developments, while building trusted relationships with stakeholders across finance, business and transformation teams
Who you will work with
You will be part of Performance & Analytics, while fully supporting the Transformation Office. Your day-to-day work will be closely linked to the Group Strategy & Transformation Office led by Regina Bruijnaers. You will collaborate with transformation workstreams, business units, finance colleagues and senior stakeholders to monitor value delivery, challenge plans and prepare management updates. The broader P&A team combines finance, performance management and analytical expertise. The team focuses on translating business and financial developments into clear management insights and decision support.
Any questions?
For questions about the role, please contact ,Attila Bosnyak ([email protected]). For questions about the recruitment process, please contact Elmira van der Schee, Talent Acquisition Specialist ([email protected]).
Core Responsibilities
The Senior Transformation Controller will review and challenge business cases for transformation initiatives while tracking costs and benefits against plans. They will also translate complex financial data into clear storylines to support executive decision-making and senior management steering.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a university degree in finance, economics, or business and possess substantial experience in controlling or strategic finance. Strong communication skills and the ability to operate at a senior level with a focus on value management are essential.
Benefits
- 13th month salary
- Holiday allowance
- 27 vacation days
- Diversity days
- Pension scheme
- Training and learning opportunities
- NS Business Card
- Home office allowance
- Internet allowance
About NN Group
Industry: Financial Services
Company size: 10,001+ employees
NN Group is an international financial services company, active in 10 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan. We are rooted in the Netherlands and have a rich history spanning 180 years. With our 16,000 colleagues, NN Group provides retirement services, pensions, insurance, banking and investments to approximately 18 million customers. NN Group includes Nationale-Nederlanden, NN, ABN AMRO Insurance, Movir, AZL, BeFrank, OHRA and Woonnu. NN Group opened for trading on 2 July 2014 on Euronext Amsterdam under the symbol ‘NN’ after its initial public offering (IPO). Throughout our history, we have merged, grown and changed, but the core of who we are has remained the same. At NN Group, we put our resources, expertise, and networks to use for the well-being of our customers, the advancement of our communities, the preservation of our planet, and for the promotion of a stable, inclusive, and sustainable economy. Our purpose is to help people care for what matters most to them. Because what matters to them matters to us.