Financial Accounting Controller - Group Finance Network

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Group Finance / External reporting is the corporate staff department responsible for the external financial and regulatory reporting. Within this department, the Finance Network team is responsible for the control and oversight function of Group Finance towards ING’s global network. In this capacity the Finance Network team maintains the day-to-day relationship and ownership for management of the global reporting process.

The team is the linking pin between Group Finance, the local finance departments globally and COO-Finance. The various stakeholders are supported with instructions, interpretations and advice regarding Group reporting requirements.

Task and responsibilities

You will be part of a team that is mainly focused on analysing and understanding the key developments in the financial data submissions from the locations/COO-Finance and ensures the compliance of those submissions with statutory and regulatory requirements. The objective is to ensure timely, accurate and complete data submissions from locations so that ING can comply with the reporting requirements at all times.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Be the first point of contact for locations and other data delivery parties, and in that role ensure that the global financial and regulatory reporting process works efficiently;

• Prepare and send quarterly instructions to the locations and other data delivering parties and manage the global reporting process;

• Oversee the accounting and reporting impact of large transactions within or cross-business units such as intercompany transfers, legal mergers, divestments or acquisitions etc.;

• Perform an analytical review to understand developments in the reports, based on your knowledge of the local business, and check consistency between reports;

• Reviewing and challenge all submissions from the locations regarding statutory and regulatory reporting. Perform thematic reviews or deep dives.

• Maintain a solid control framework towards the entities to ensure the integrity of ING’s statutory and regulatory reports, including the interdependencies with other domains, by reviewing sign-offs, in control statements, doing site visits etc.;

• Execution of Group Finance owned controls in the reporting process (coordination sign off of the letter of representation and goodwill impairment testing)

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. 

Furthermore you have;

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in the areas of accountancy, business administration of finance and control

• 3+ years of experience in external reporting in the banking industry

• Financial audit experience

• Experience in the implementation of regulatory reporting changes (projects), and resolving reporting issues including stakeholder management

• Presenting reporting issues in key messages to a broader senior audience

• Extensive knowledge of IFRS

• Good understanding of CRR and FINREP

• MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access)

• Power BI

​Behaviours and Competences:

• Analytical skills to perform analytical review on statutory and regulatory reports and the ability to challenge assumptions and perform an impact analysis on reporting issues

• Communication and persuasion skills to perform relationship management with international stakeholders using a global perspective and cultural sensitivity

• Pro-active attitude driving problem resolution, process enhancements and regulatory reporting changes (projects) with tenacity

• Collaboration skills, team player with the ability to operate independently (self-starter) and to build bridges across functions

• Presentation skills with ability to translate complicated reporting issues and requirements into key messages

• Ability to cope with work-pressure and work with deadlines being dependent on others

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
• 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 to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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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!