Business Controller - NEO

randstad professional; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to 6400€

IKB: 10.66% of salary

25 vacation days (+5)

Pension from day 1

100% public transport reimbursement

Home working budget €750

Internet allowance €20/month

Phone plan renewal €225 every 2 years

Referral bonus up to €1500

Google Gemini Pro account

Flexible holidays

Randstad Academy access

Sabbatical up to 1 year

Job summary

Randstad Professional is assisting NEO NL in finding a Business Controller to join their finance team in the Netherlands. The role focuses on translating project activities into robust financial insights, maintaining multi-year budgets and rolling forecasts, and ensuring decisions are grounded in sound data.

The successful candidate will partner with project managers, prepare KPI dashboards, and deliver shareholder reporting while contributing to continuous improvement of control processes in a

Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree or equivalent level of education in Finance, Business Economics, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• 6–10 years of relevant professional experience in business control, FP&A, or project cost control.
• Experience operating in capital-intensive infrastructure, energy, or major engineering project environments.
• Ability to operate in a start-up or scale-up organizational environment.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical and operational information into clear financial insights, and vice versa.
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Annual Budgeting: Transform programme and project budgets into the integrated annual budget, aligning with shareholder planning and reporting requirements.
• Rolling Forecasting: Maintain rolling forecasts with project controls and departmental estimates, ensuring traceability.
• Variance Analysis & Cost Control: Monitor expenditures, explain variances, and flag risks to protect cost discipline.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a financial sparring partner to operational and project managers, challenging cost estimates and proposals.
• Management & Shareholder Reporting: Produce actionable management information and reporting to the Board and EZK.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to design and optimisation of control processes and financial systems.

Skills

Master's degree in Finance

FP&A experience

Budgeting & forecasting

Cost control in capital projects

Stakeholder management

Dutch & English proficiency

Education

Master's degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

BI dashboards

ERP systems

Job description

To achieve its climates goals, the Netherlands is committed to achieving carbon-free electricity. Nuclear Energy Organisation Netherlands (NEO NL) contributes to this by building and operating two new nuclear power plants, on behalf of the government. It is one of the most ambitious energy projects the Netherlands has ever seen. At NEO NL, your work will directly contribute to this national ambition and make an impact that lasts for decades. To make this assignment a success, we need extraordinary people. People like you.

For the start-up phase of NEO NL, we are looking for: Business Controller

As a Business Controller, you provide objective financial insight, forward-looking analysis, constructive challenge, and effective business partnering across NEO NL to improve business performance and decision-making. Reporting directly to the Head of Corporate Finance, you translate NEO NL’s project and operational activities into dependable financial insights, safeguard the integrity of multi-year budgets and rolling forecasts, and ensure operational decisions are grounded in sound financial information.

Your key activities include:

• Annual Budgeting: Transform programme and project budgets alongside departmental estimates into NEO NL’s integrated annual budget, ensuring categorisation and timing align with shareholder (EZK) planning and reporting requirements.
• Rolling Forecasting: Maintain and update rolling forecasts as project-level (Project Controls) and departmental estimates evolve, ensuring assumptions are documented, traceable, and defensible.
• Variance Analysis & Cost Control: Monitor actual expenditures against budgets and forecasts, investigate and explain variances, and flag emerging cost or schedule risks early to protect strict programme cost discipline.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a financial sparring partner to operational and project managers, embedding financial rigour by constructively challenging cost estimates, contract structures, and investment proposals before they reach the CFO or investment committee.
• Management & Shareholder Reporting: Produce actionable management information (KPIs, dashboards, value drivers, cost reports) and consolidate periodic reporting to the Board and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK), translating operational complexity into Rijksbegroting-aligned reporting.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively contribute to the design, refinement, and optimisation of business control processes, reporting templates, and financial systems in a scaling organisation.

Functie-eisen

• A Master’s Degree or equivalent level of education in Finance, Business Economics, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• Over 6 to 10 years of relevant professional experience in business control, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), or project cost control.
• Proven experience operating in capital-intensive infrastructure, energy, or major engineering project environments.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively and build processes within a start-up or scale-up organizational environment.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical and operational information into clear financial insights, and vice versa.
• Excellent command of both Dutch and English, written and spoken (essential for executive and ministerial stakeholder interfaces).

We also value if you have:

• Familiarity with public sector finance, state-owned entities, or Rijksbegroting-aligned budgeting and reporting frameworks.
• Experience collaborating closely with Project Controls teams on large-scale project scheduling and Capex forecasting.
• Proficiency in modern business intelligence, dashboarding tools, and enterprise ERP systems.

Competenties

At NEO NL, everyone needs four core competencies to be successful: Learning Agility, Collaboration, Responsibility, and Communication. For this role, we additionally look for:

• Constructive Challenge & Independent Judgement: Possesses an assertive, independent mindset with the ability to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and uphold financial discipline under ambiguous circumstances.
• Translating Complexity: Exceptional skill in deconstructing multi-layered operational and project data to provide clear, forward-looking financial insight and actionable advice.
• Analytical Problem Solving: Systematically investigates variances, evaluates alternative scenarios and root causes, and implements structured, sustainable solutions.

Arbeidsvoorwaarden

Als professional bij Randstad Professional ontvang je een transparante beloning. Daarom werken we met een functiehuis dat is opgebouwd uit duidelijke niveaus en salarisschalen. Om jouw startsalaris te bepalen, schalen we je bij de indiensttreding zorgvuldig in. We kijken hierbij naar de unieke combinatie van jouw opleiding, experience en competenties, zodat je beloning optimaal aansluit bij de waarde die jij meebrengt.

• Een bruto maandsalaris tot € 6400,- op basis van 40 uur.
• Individueel Keuzebudget (IKB): 10,66% van je salaris, maandelijks flexibel in te zetten.
• 25 vakantiedagen met de optie om 5 extra dagen bij te kopen.
• Pensioenopbouw via ASR Cappital vanaf dag 1 en een collectieve zorgverzekering.
• Reiskostenvergoeding: 100% OV-vergoeding (NS Businesscard) of €0,23 per km.
• Thuiswerkbudget: Een netto budget van €750 voor het inrichten van je thuiswerkplek.
• Internetvergoeding: €20 netto per maand.
• Telefoonregeling (CYOP): Elke 2 jaar €225 netto voor een nieuwe smartphone.
• Bonussen: Deelname aan diverse regelingen, zoals een referral bonus (tot €1.500), marktbonus en outperformance bonus.
• Een kosteloos Google Gemini Pro-account.
• Flexibele feestdagen met de vrijheid om deze te ruilen.
• Toegang tot ruim 3.000 opleidingen via de Randstad Professional Academy voor jouw groei en ontwikkeling.
• Mogelijkheid tot een sabbatical van maximaal 1 jaar (1 keer per 3 jaar)

Bedrijfsinformatie

NEO NL is a state-owned company. Our mission is clear: deliver long-lasting nuclear energy solutions that support the Dutch ambition of climate neutrality. With unmatched standards of quality and safety, and driven by deep expertise and responsibility, we are creating a resilient energy system while advancing nuclear knowledge for generations to come.

At NEO NL, you won’t just have a job, you will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to ensure the Netherlands becomes less dependent of fossils fuel, and to have clean and reliable energy for generations to come. You will be part of an ambitious, supportive, and international team, working at the forefront of policy, technology, and society.

This is your chance to make history. Join us and be part of something that lasts.