Associate Principal Finance Business Advice for Private Banking

Innovation in Finance

We are looking for a business controller with a focus on our Private Bank to strengthen our Finance Business Advice team. In Finance we are looking for people with a talent for taking ownership and making it happen, an enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a capability for always being a step ahead. In return we offer personal growth & challenging work, an open and dynamic environment, and a progressive and forward-looking mentality.

Your role & work environment:

ING aims to be the best European Bank by growing the difference between itself and other players in the market. Private Banking is an important pillar of growth for ING.

Our Finance Business Advice department is a management accounting department with a strong focus on advice. We act as financial conscience via the role of business partner for all departments within the Domestic Bank of ING in the Netherlands. You’ll work within the team that works for Private Individuals & Private Banking.

You will have your own senior business partners whom you are going to provide complex analyses and insights in their financial trends and performance. Provide the business of Private Banking and the Investment product your independent (strategic) advice. You report hierarchically to the Lead Finance Business Advice for Private Individuals & Private Banking in ING Netherlands.

Your key responsibilities:

• Understand the business drivers that impact financial results.
• Actively develop relationships within Private Banking and our Investments Tribe and act as a trusted advisor by supporting with analysis to steer the business.
• Prepare and analyze financial reports, budgets, and forecasts.
• Monitor financial performance and provide insights to senior management.
• Support in planning of product related roadmaps – with robust business cases and clear outcome metrics.
• Drive alignment across functions to achieve enhanced profitability of the product – reporting, planning, processes, systems.
• Influence decision making of stakeholders.
• Optimize, simplify, and automate processes to improve predictability, transparency and speed.
• Be in the driving seat for projects directly impacting Finance.

How to succeed 

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. 

We are looking for someone who proactively demonstrates all Orange Leadership Profile behaviour-related competencies and ING’s Orange Code behaviours at all times.

You have the following key competencies:

• Current residency in the Netherlands is required to be considered. Speaking the Dutch language ais a strong pre as a large part of your stakeholders are Dutch
• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or Data Science
• 7+ years of experience in financial planning, strategy or sales within Private Banking industry (BIG 4 consultancy background could also be a fit)
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and influencing skills

Furthermore you have/are:

• A growth mindset: curiosity to learn and discover beyond the financials
• Pro-active and Client-oriented, driving a customer centric culture
• Engages effectively with multiple stakeholders and responds with well-balanced, win-win solutions
• Execution, delivering outstanding business results
• Strong communicator, able to tell a complex story in manner suitable to the audience
• Market focus, seeing the bigger picture and ING perspective
• Deals with complex and diverse matters
• Focus on operational excellence through collaboration, ability to bring people together to work towards the same purpose
• Competence with data and numbers

Interested? Want to apply directly!
Will you be out new colleague? We are looking forward to meeting you! Please upload your most recent CV and motivational letter. Your motivational letter is an import element during application, as you can demonstrate your ambitions and also give examples of your experience that cannot be mentioned on your CV. It really makes a difference and we are looking forward to reading it! Without a cover letter we cannot proceed with your application.

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 12-month contract with view to extend to permanency
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working (at least 2 days a week onsite) to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!