Finance Budget Partner at ING
Your role and work environment
We are looking for a Finance Budget Partner to help us in our ambition to support the Bank's growth and diversification achieving commercial and financial targets, while ensuring that we build towards the overall strategy T2D.
You are the key representative from the Finance department in a cross-functional team with colleagues from business, operations and IT to contribute to the control of our expenses and have an impactful partnership with all our stakeholders. This means you fully understand the expenses and capacity budget of the bank and use this to proactively propose and promote ideas to optimize resources and investments across the bank and bring our strategy into execution.
In this role you are part of a small team (6 FTE) in the Management Accounting area, within the finance function.
This will grant you with a dynamic environment, growth potential and the possibility to have real impact. You will receive close support and attention from your manager in the delivery of your duties and your professional development.
Your key responsibilities
What you'll be doing as a Finance Budget Partner:
•Expenses management – towards becoming a 'financial business partner' - performance and monitoring and forecasting
•Monthly follow-up process to monitor budgets and capacity through the year of your domains.
•Improve understanding of your domains to drive a more pro-active budget setting and cost optimisation process (mid-term view).
•Being able to translate analyses and business performance into concise and powerful presentations
•Strategy papers and presentations.
•Expenses Performance monitoring.
•Consolidated decks to ExCo members
•Support the team on process & controls improvement:
•Inspire and challenge the team to continuously keep developing and gaining the required skills to be the best they can be.
•Be the leader on process improvement and automation initiatives to free-up resources for value added analysis and tasks.
•Take the next step in improving, implementation, automation and documentation of controls to further strengthen all key processes.
•Feed your curiosity with research and competition monitoring. Keep an eye on the market!
•Process Understanding & Optimization
•Ability to understand processes and identify opportunities to simplify them.
•Committed to driving efficiency both at the bank-wide and team level.
•Focused on process optimization in the management of the team's business-as-usual activities.
What are we looking for?
A strong set of technical and analytical abilities:
•Master or bachelor's degree (preferably in mathematics or engineering) with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a comparable role.
•Full proficiency in Excel (PowerQuery), SAS and SQL.
•Excellent speaking and writing skills in English is a must.
•Strong analytical skills and problem-solving mindset.
•Global vision. Strategic and creative thinker.
•Ability to simplify complexity.
•Early adopter to new technologies.
A leader of our Orange Code culture displays the following behaviors:
•Excellent interpersonal skills (influencing and communication)
•High level of autonomy and initiative.
•Ability to work on an international level.
•Able to assume personal responsibility.
•High level of curiosity and eager to learn, stay on top of trends and developments within your field and the market.
•Team player. Loving to collaborate with different people.
•Results oriented. Make things happen.
•Flexible to be able to adapt fast to the changes.
•Strong resilience: ability to navigate through ambiguity.
What do we offer?
•Balance That Works: with customers' needs first, the team's and your own, you agree when to come to ING MAD and when to work best from home.
•Restaurant card.
•Our house will be your home: electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym, The Good Service (to help with errands) and more.
•Health insurance for you and all your family (spouse/partner and children).
•Life insurance.
•Flexible remuneration: access to services such as nursery, transport card, training aids, through a more tax-advantaged model.
•Free company shuttle, with 6 routes (North, Central, South, A5, A42 and A6) to the ING office in Madrid.
•Banking benefits: special loans with more beneficial conditions; special mortgage conditions after 6 months working at the bank; pension plan access after 1 month.
•More vitality and more belonging: 360º care of the employee (physical, mental, social connection & purpose); physiotherapy service on site; clinics with professional, world-class athletes; Gympass service; Employee Networks (Rainbow Lions LGBTQI+, Leonas & RIÑG); International Remote work program.
Get to know us
We are a team of more than 1800 people sharing one idea: doing our bit in helping our clients create a better future for themselves, by providing them with the tools they need to get where they want to go. A fully online bank where technology, innovation, simplicity and transparency are the main ingredients, and the first one to work with agile methodologies. Based in Spain, we are part of an international bank with presence in more than 40 countries.
