The Bunde branch needs to make improvements. And that starts with finance. As a Financial Controller at Dolmans Landscaping Group, you are ultimately responsible for accurate and timely financial administration. And for the management information that enables the branch manager and Group Finance to make informed decisions. Understanding the numbers, identifying opportunities and risks, and providing financial guidance to project leaders – that is where you make the difference. Do you recognize yourself in this? Find out and strengthen our team in Bunde.
What does your role in the team look like?
Monitoring financial administration, preparing periodic management reports and dashboards, and translating analyses into concrete improvement proposals. That forms the core of your work. In addition, you guide the budgeting process, provide input for the annual financial statements, and monitor the ERP processes in 4PS at the Bunde branch. Hierarchically, you report to Branch Manager Michel Cobben, functionally to the Group Financial Controller, and ultimately to CFO Lubbertus Lokhorst.
An important part of your role? Project control. Project managers at the branch come from the field – landscaping and outdoor spaces – and you will be teaching them. how they can financially manage a project and learn to understand figures. You guide them in this, without taking over their work. Do you identify backlogs or procedural deviations? Then you proactively bring these to the attention of the Group.
Your direct colleague is Nienke, a financial administrative assistant who processes basic documents and has clear ambitions to advance. You provide her with situational guidance, tailored to her development. The Bunde branch has sixteen colleagues. It is a down-to-earth and informal team with short lines of communication.
Why Dolmans Landscaping Group?
A role with direct influence – your analyses and advice reach both the branch manager and the Group Executive Board. Dolmans Landscaping Group is a national player in landscaping and outdoor spaces, with branches in the Netherlands and Belgium and an informal culture with short lines of communication. At the same time, there is the professionalism of a Group Finance structure to support you. You will be given the scope to further professionalize project control at the branch and implement financial improvements, with the freedom to steer this yourself.
What else do you get?
Permanent contract at Dolmans Landscaping Group in Bunde.
You work 40 hours per week
€4.960 to €6.145 gross per month (based on 37 hours) or
€5.161 to €6.394 gross per month (based on 38,5 hours).
25 vacation days (based on full-time).
10 or 20 days of compensatory time off per year,
Pension scheme in accordance with the VHG collective labor agreement.
Work laptop and phone.
Travel allowance and reimbursement for physiotherapy.
Working from home is possible for a maximum of 2 days per week, in consultation.
What are you bringing?
Higher professional education (HBO+) or university (WO) working and thinking level in a financial or business economics field, supplemented by at least three to five years of experience in a comparable controller position.
Experience with ERP systems and BI tooling, and demonstrable knowledge of preparing management reports, analyses, and dashboards.
Strong analytical skills: you have a deep understanding of numbers, uncover causes, and translate risks and opportunities into understandable advice for non-financial stakeholders.
Proactive and independent: you do not wait for problems to arise, but identify what is going on and take action. Even if that falls outside your regular duties.
Strong personality with a helicopter view: you do not get carried away by ad-hoc requests, maintain an overview, and guard the boundary between guiding and executing yourself.
Made your choice?
Great. Apply immediately! Your first online meeting will be with Tom Tellings (Operations Manager) and Liza Lembeck (Recruitment Consultant) from Farrow + Dutch.
During the first interview with Dolmans Landscaping Group, you will meet Michel Cobben (Branch Manager) and Thijs de Jong (HR) on location. This is followed by a substantive second interview with Lubbertus Lokhorst (CFO) and possibly Hank Wijnbergen (Regional Director), as well as with a direct colleague, Nienke, from the finance department.
Is everyone enthusiastic? Then a suitable offer will follow shortly. ___
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