Job Description

Unlock your potential and kickstart your career journey in Offshore Wind as a Junior Business Controller, where ownership meets opportunity, empowering you with diverse range of tasks to shape your professional growth.

The BU Offshore in BA Wind is responsible for developing, constructing and operating Offshore wind farms. BU Offshore currently consist of 12 operating windfarms with a total capacity of 2.1GW spread across Europe. We are currently working on the commissioning of two other wind farms for 2.1GW and have a healthy pipeline of future opportunities.

The team of BU & Generation Controlling is focusing on finance and business partnering support to the spinning assets we have in Offshore and all the supporting functions enabling the successful operation: from technicians to product development, from warehouses to end of life strategies – the team is there for the business..

We are now looking for a Junior Business Controller to work within the Generation Controlling team focusing on the supporting of so called central functions, which are placed across Europe. While reporting to Head of BU & Generation Controlling the role will be primarily working with the senior controller on topics relevant for the Generation Support Function teams. You will be providing support to the Controller and also working with colleagues from the relevant Generation Business – including commercial, asset management, operational excellence and others. There will be a broad scope of tasks and we expect you will have plenty of opportunity to learn and develop in this role.

As part of the Offshore controlling team you will have your direct team colleagues in Amsterdam (NL), Berlin (GE), Kolding (DK) and London (UK). Occasional travel might be required.

Responsibilities & Tasks

The following main tasks are in the responsibility in your role of Junior Business Controller:

• Prepare, consolidate and report monthly results and forecasts, identifying and explaining reasons for deviation from business plan;
• Contribute to performance management of one of department financial performance;
• Preparing cost accruals as part of month end processes;
• Supporting the preparation of cost centres annual business planning and forecasting;
• Work with financial master data, requesting new objects and keeping the data up to date;
• Supporting the charge-out of Generation Support Functions;
• Basic account reconciliations in conjunction with Accounting colleagues;
• Supporting the financial processes and the related administration (cost billing)
• Supporting operational staff with finance support;
• Ad-hoc tasks on an individual basis as well as with the other team members.

Qualifications

Who are you?

Our ideal candidate is on the first stage of their professional career in finance. You are pro-active and structured. You are eager to learn and are good at communicating in an international environment.

Furthermore you bring:

• Bachelor degree (or similar experience based level) in a relevant field i.e. controlling, economics, accounting or finance;
• Good knowledge of MS Excel.

The following experience will help you to get up and running quickly:

• You have experience of between 0-2 years in a finance role;
• Previous SAP experience is beneficial.

We think the team will be strengthened when you bring these skills, knowledge and strengths:

• Good basic understanding of financial bookings and their consequences on key common KPIs;
• Strong levels of data and database and IT skills;
• Good communication skills both verbally and in writing (fluency in English is a must);
• Strong team player, willingness to help out others and deliver against deadlines; Pro-active mindset, showing desire and ability to problem solve; Ability to work independently with a hands-on and pragmatic mind set;
• Open,active and curious to understand the business.

Additional Information

Our offer

We offer you a challenging and independent job in an informal working environment. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues as ‘Ask and Share’ concept is essential for the way we work. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Process and time line

We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via the application button. This vacancy is internally posted till February 10.

We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jurriaan Rang via jurriaan.rang@vattenfall.com.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.