Key Skills

Job Description

Your job Operations at WUR are undergoing significant change! We are in the midst of a period of major transformation across business processes, administrative systems and digital platforms. As a functional application manager, your challenge will be to work with the team to ensure the continuity of the current financial platforms and to ensure a smooth transition to a new platform. In this team, you will use your knowledge of, for example, procurement processes, accounting processes, project administration and customer relationship management processes to support users and ensure the software is optimally configured. Your knowledge of IT infrastructure, data models and data management will enable you to make the right choices and refine processes for smooth operational application management. We need your proactive, collaborative and sociable nature to organise all the operational work and the changes effectively. We need you now – a go-getter who takes the initiative, gets things done and inspires others with your ability to bring about change! Your main tasks and responsibilities as a functional application manager: you are fluent in the Dutch language functional application management and user support for financial platforms (you’ll focus primarily on Unit4 Business World); acting as a liaison between the user organisation, suppliers and the IT organisation; refining processes for platform management and user support; monitoring security aspects and requirements; ensuring that the platform infrastructure aligns with the requirements and processes of the user organisation. This is where you’ll be working At WUR, you’ll be working within Digitalisation & Information Services (DIS). This department brings together all the teams collaborating on WUR’s digital agenda. Within DIS, there are plenty of opportunities to specialise further and develop your skills in your field. Your team is part of the IT Operations department. The management and support of the financial applications are handled by the Finance, Procurement and Projects (FP&I) team. Here, you will work alongside five functional application managers, a product owner, a scrum master and a business analyst. Together, you will be responsible for the security, continuity and quality of the data in the software used for project administration, expense claims, financial administration and procurement. Your qualities What do we look for in your experience and personality? you are someone who demonstrably takes the initiative easily and knows how to tackle initiatives in an organised manner; you have an outgoing personality; you approach users and colleagues easily to brainstorm, ask questions or tackle tasks together; you have knowledge of complex financial processes at enterprise level, enabling you to understand the work of colleagues in the finance department; you have a demonstrable higher vocational education (HBO) level qualification (via a diploma or a potential assessment); you are familiar with the management and user support of ERP and/or financial applications at enterprise level, involving administrative and process-related complexity. As part of the application procedure, we ask you to submit a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) and obtaining references is part of the procedure. In our international working environment, communication is increasingly taking place in English. For this role, the requirement is CEFR level B1 (https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale). If you have not yet reached this level, we will of course help you, and you are welcome to contact our language centre, Wageningen in’to Language (https://www.wur.nl/en/education/into-languages). You’ll see that there are plenty of challenges ahead for you. These challenges can also be seen as opportunities for development. So, if you do not yet have the track record specified in the job advertisement but do have solid work experience, we would still like to invite you to apply. We offer Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment (https://www.wur.nl/en/jobs/conditions-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, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between € 3,554.- and € 5,698.- for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 10). Additionally, for this role a contract for 32 hours can be discussed. As for your contract, we initially offer a one-year contract that can be extended - if possible within (company) organizational circumstances - on good performance. Of course, we are happy to have a conversation with you if you have any questions about this. If you are an internal employee, your current contract is the starting point. Ask your HR Business Partner about your situation specifically. We encourage development and internal mobility within our organisation. Our recruitment and selection policy (https://wur.service-now.com/esc?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0012172) sets out the conditions that apply specifically to you as a (former) employee. If you have any questions, we are happy to help. Important information For more information about the position, please contact Bart Aarts, Manager Operations, via phone number: +31 639088848 or via email: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). Questions about the procedure? Get in touch with Edvard Jongschaap, corporate recruiter, via email: edvard,[email protected] (mailto:edvard,[email protected]) or via phone number: 0317 - 489 178 Ready to apply? Click on the application button next to the vacancy on our website. Only applications submitted through our website will be considered. You can apply up to and including Monday 2 November 2026. Internal candidates are preferred to apply before 10 October 2026. Welcome, safe, and valued Wageningen University & Research (WUR) highly values diversity and inclusion because we believe that different insights lead to innovative solutions. We create a work environment where everyone feels welcome, safe, and appreciated, regardless of background, identity, or experience. Together, we are building a culture where everyone's unique contribution adds to the success of our organization. We are 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. Read the 5 reasons (https://www.wur.nl/en/Jobs/Why-choose-WUR.htm) why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR and watch the video below to get an idea of our green campus! We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.

Core Responsibilities

Manage and support financial applications, primarily Unit4 Business World, ensuring platform continuity, security, data quality, and effective configuration. Coordinate between users, suppliers, and IT, refine application-management and support processes, and help transition to a new platform.

Requirements

Applicants should have demonstrable higher vocational education (HBO) level and experience managing and supporting enterprise ERP or financial applications with complex administrative processes. They should understand complex enterprise financial processes, take initiative in an organized way, work collaboratively with users and colleagues, and have English proficiency at CEFR B1 level.

Benefits

• Flexible Working Hours
• Sabbatical Leave
• Study Leave
• Partially Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Campus Sports Facilities
• Year-End Bonus
• Pension Scheme