Finance Business Partner Lead (temporary)

ING; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading financial institution in Madrid is seeking a Finance Business Partner Lead to drive strategic financial initiatives. This role requires a strong candidate with over 10 years of experience in finance, ideally within banking or consulting. You will collaborate closely with senior management, manage a team, and provide critical insights for financial performance. The position offers a supportive environment, competitive benefits, and the flexibility of remote work arrangements.

Servicios

Health insurance for you and your family

Life insurance

Flexible remuneration

Free company shuttle

Banking benefits

Wellbeing and social programs

Formación

• Minimum of 10 years of experience, preferably in banking/consulting.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Proven experience in managing teams.

Responsabilidades

• Act as a linking pin between business leadership and finance.
• Understand, monitor, and forecast business performance.
• Develop and refine financial models.

Conocimientos

Technical and analytical skills

Problem-solving mindset

Communication skills

Planning and organizational skills

Educación

Masters or Bachelor's degree

Descripción del empleo

Overview

At ING we are looking for a Finance Business Partner Lead (temporary).

Your role and work environment :

We are looking for a knowledgeable and delivery-oriented Finance Business Partner Lead that would like to take an exciting opportunity in ING Spain for helping us to define and drive our ambition to be a strategic partner to senior management and business leaders.

This is an ad-interim position for a 1-year period leading the Finance Business Partner team within Management Accounting in the CFO function. You will lead a team of 7 professionals and act as an advisor to the key business leaders in the bank (Retail Tribes Wholesale Banking Leadership & GT). You will have an end-to-end perspective of our key products (Income, Pricing, Expenses, Balances, profitability and performance ratios) and translate this into a long-term vision, compare with current performance and external market trends, and initiate initiatives to execute the strategy. You will prepare regular updates to Product Leadership and other key stakeholders to monitor and report on performance.

You will operate in a dynamic environment with exposure to senior leaders, with growth potential and real impact on the bank's future. You will receive close support from your manager and peers in delivering duties and in your professional development.

You are a collaborative professional who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You combine strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to communicate to senior leadership and translate analyses into concise written and verbal presentations and reports.

Your key responsibilities :

What you’ll be doing as a Finance Business Partner Manager :

• Act as a linking pin between business leadership and the finance function to ensure the bank's strategy and financial ambition are known, shared, and embraced as one team.
• Understand, monitor, and forecast business performance.
• Full control and analysis of actual figures, including external/internal income, risk, costs, RWA and balance sheet developments.
• Active forecasting in close cooperation with business representatives.
• Ongoing development and refinement of financial models with deep business knowledge (actuals & forecast).
• Being the finance partner to business stakeholders.
• Ad hoc analyses & research to support key strategic initiatives & pricing.
• Share insights and challenge end-to-end performance.
• Collaborate on and challenge new business development proposals.
• Translate analyses and performance into concise and powerful presentations.
• Strategy papers and presentations (ExCo offsites, meetings with senior management).
• Business performance monitoring.
• Local committees (ALCO, Pricing, etc.).
• Drive continuous team development, process controls improvement.
• Inspire and challenge the team to develop skills and achieve peak performance.
• Lead process improvement and automation initiatives to free up resources for value-added analysis.
• Improve implementation, automation, and documentation of controls to strengthen key processes.
• Contribute to the strategic partnering / financial planning function in finance with cross-functional strategic discussions on: analyses on efficiency and performance metrics; strategy papers and presentations; performance review sessions (MIS, QPC, ExCo reports); local committees (ALCO, Pricing, etc.).
• Keep curiosity with market research and competition monitoring.

What are we looking for

• A strong set of technical and analytical abilities.
• Masters or bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of experience (preferably in banking and/or consulting).
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Good analytical skills; understanding of advanced financial modeling and model optimization/automation.
• Proven planning and organizational skills.
• Problem-solving mindset.
• Well-developed cooperation and communication skills to act as a linking pin with all departments and colleagues involved.
• Ability to work at an international level.
• Minimum experience managing teams.
• A leader of our Orange Code culture with the following behaviors: taking personal responsibility, customer focus, problem analysis and judgment, trend awareness, strategic thinking, initiative, and constructive feedback.

What do we offer

The time you spend at work, the challenges you face, and the lessons you learn are important, but we also care about your personal life. ING offers benefits and a supportive environment.

Be flexible my friend.

Our model is based on flexibility and accountability. You determine, with your team, which days you work from home and which you come to the ING MAD office.

Restaurant card.

To simplify lunch decisions and time management.

Our house will be your home.

Offices include electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym, The Good Service, and more.

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible remuneration with access to services such as nursery, transport card, training aids.
• Free company shuttle with six routes to Madrid office.
• Banking benefits including special loans and favorable mortgage conditions after 6 months, and pension plan after 1 month.
• Wellbeing and social programs: Physiotherapy on site, runners club, clinics with elite athletes, Gympass, employee networks (Rainbow Lions, Leonas).

Get to know Us

We are more than 1,600 people united by helping clients build a better future with digital, agile, and transparent practices. We are international, present in more than 40 countries, and committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging, sustainability, and making things happen.

If you see yourself reflected in our values, we look forward to meeting you!

Location and language

Spanish and English; English proficiency required. This posting includes a Spanish language section mirroring the English content.