Finance Internal Control Consultant in Amsterdam

As Financial Internal Control Consultant, you will challenge and advise the Finance departments, in the Netherlands and for abroad entities, in identifying significant financial reporting risks and strengthen the design of the Bank’s control framework over reporting to mitigate those risks. Your starting point will be analysing existing and new IFRS, Regulatory reporting regulations, Sustainability reporting and financial processes. And determine how they can best be translated into processes, risks & controls. 

As a Financial Internal Control Consultant you will advise ABN AMRO’s Finance management in implementing a uniform Control Framework by adopting the harmonized Internal Control approach. Advising, improving, training, trouble shooting and implementing a robust global Finance Control Framework are the basic activities you will be doing on a weekly basis. Together with the local Finance teams you are responsible for the uniform design of the Control framework and you will advise on the improvements in operational effectiveness of the controls. Periodically, the assessment of the operating effectiveness of the key controls will be reported to the MT Finance and CFO. The Internal Control dashboard supports Finance management to ensure the reliability of the figures disclosed to stakeholders and will also be input for the annual report management control statement. You are the sparring partner of Finance Management in case of indepth investigations of finance management, auditors and/or the regulator. 

Furthermore, you will analyse the bank’s chain processes, data flows and reports and other themes. This to ensure that (non) financial figures are correctly recorded/ disclosed, so that it can be determined what risks will be mitigated by applying kind of key controls. Examples are IFRS 9, COREP, LCR, DGS, Levies, Sustainability disclosures and loan tapes. Finally, you will ensure that the activities described above are recorded as evidence, you will evaluate the testing performed and provide advice on which the other stakeholders in the control process can rely. This forms the basis for facilitating the next steps, including proposing solutions/ improvements and initiating Internal Control training in this context
Overall, you will gain experience in the Internal Control practice, designing of risks & controls and defining the underlying evidence, so that the auditor is satisfied. You will advise and perform your work in multidisciplinary teams of business lines, change management and IT department to ensure that these activities will contribute to strengthening the Finance Control Framework. 

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The Internal Control (IC) team is part of the department Policies & Internal Control. The IC team is responsible for the design and further improvements for the global Control Framework for the financial statement closing process and regulatory reports. On request of finance management in depth investigations are initiated to ensure policy adherence adequately and to report reliable data and financial figures to stakeholders.

You will be part of a small, young and ambitious team. The goal of department is to be the Finance Internal Control expertise center. You, as an Internal Control Consultant, in our team will be challenged analytically and socially. We work with many colleagues outside our team, who share a passion to improve finance management, so we can contribute to banking for future generations. At the moment the team is working remotely, but we stay in close contact with each other to achieve our team objectives as well as your individual development goals.

You are an energetic person with humor and a passion and are able to translate theory into practices. You have a strong drive to continuously keep your own expertise up to date and to contribute actively to the further development of our department and internal control deliverables. In addition, you get energy from transferring your expertise to others and you are open and interested in what you can learn from your colleagues feedback.

Do you think you fit in with us? Check your profile:

• You have an auditors educational background (big four company)
• You have a good understanding of Control Frameworks, with specific experience in the area of financial reporting risks in the Financial Services environment
• You understand the impact of IFRS and prudent Regulatory Reporting changes and like to initiate in depth investigations on processes, reports/ data relating to policy adherence
• You are familiar within Financial Services / bank’s products and processes and IT environment
• You are analytical and able to quickly understand complex matters
• You are proactive, flexible and result-driven personality, while maintaining high quality standards
• You have good communications skills, both verbally as well as written, and can adapt these to various audiences. Good command of both the Dutch and English language is required
• You are a strong, enthusiastic team player

You will be part of a young team in order to build a robust control framework within global Finance of ABN AMRO. You will have the opportunity to deepen your financial expertise and/or develop in the breadth bank’s processes, risks & controls to ensure reliable non and financial information. Within the global Finance organisation there are several growth opportunities, content related as well as personally. All this depends on your ambitions, interests and experience. Even more,

• The position comes with a competitive salary
• We help you to remain fit & healthy
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• A solid pension plan

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.