Controller Projecten & Programma’s

Farrow; Helmond; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent position

Flexible working hours

Work-from-home allowance

Laptop provided

Job summary

The Municipality of Helmond is seeking a Controller Projects & Programs to provide independent advice to the Executive Board and program managers on steering and control of large projects. You will monitor budgets, assess risks, and ensure projects remain within time and budget.

The role requires proactive, independent thinking and a strategic perspective, helping to shape the city’s ambitious growth and project portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in controlling or accounting, plus several years’ advisory or project controller experience.
• Experience applying and monitoring internal and external regulations.
• Strategic overview with ability to switch between tasks and present clear conclusions to the board.
• Independent and persuasive, able to provide unsolicited advice within a complex organization.
• Analytical with a social drive, focused on city outcomes and development.

Responsibilities

• Advise the Board of Directors and project managers on steering and control, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Assess budgets, reports, and business cases with financial advisors in an independent role.
• Monitor progress and deviations in results, time, and budget.
• Act as ambassador for project-based working and risk management, and advise the Group Controller.

Skills

Risk management

Strategic insight

Financial analysis

Advisory

Independent working

Education

Bachelor's degree in controlling or accounting

Job description

Controller Projects & Programs - Municipality of Helmond

Grip on 60 million euro projects in a city growing to 115.000 inhabitants. As Controller Projects & Programs at the Municipality of Helmond, you advise the Executive Board and program managers on the steering and control of the most complex challenges. From the Automotive Campus to the full scaling up, you identify risks in a timely manner and ensure that large projects remain manageable and successful. This is not a position to grow into slowly: from day one, you take an independent stance.

What does your role in the team look like? As the maker of the future within the Corporate Control Unit, you maintain a strategic grip on the management of tasks, programs, and projects. You keep an overview, identify risks in a timely manner, and assist in making well-founded choices. Operating independently is part of the role, as is providing solicited and unsolicited advice on course, direction, and control.

Job responsibilities

• Advising the Board of Directors and project and program managers on steering and control, providing insight into risks and opportunities, and contributing to the improvement of internal control.
• Assessing budgets, reports, and business cases with financial advisors from your independent role.
• Monitoring progress and identifying deviations regarding results, time, and budget.
• Acting as an ambassador for Project-Based Working and risk management, and advising the Group Controller.

Benefits and conditions

• Annual contract with the Municipality of Helmond (with prospect of permanent employment).
• Minimum 32 hours per week.
• €4.465 to €7.163 gross per month (based on full-time, Municipalities CLA, job scale 11 or 12).
• Individual Choice Budget (IKB) of 17,85% of the gross salary.
• 144 hours of basic leave, supplemented by six extra days, a maximum of two bridging days, and partially paid parental leave.
• Opportunity to move to Helmond (including a contribution towards moving costs).
• Flexible working hours between 07:00 and 22:00, in consultation.
• Work-from-home allowance of €3,25 per day.
• Laptop and phone.
• Financial compensation for healthcare costs.

What you need to bring

• Bachelor's degree, for example in controlling, accountancy, or a similar field, demonstrating the ability to apply university-level knowledge. Supplemented by several years of experience as an advisor, project/program controller, or in a similar position.
• Experience with applying and monitoring internal and external regulations.
• Strategic insight and overview: you switch effortlessly between diverse tasks and interests, ask the right questions, and bring the board and managers along in your analysis.
• Independent and persuasive: you navigate independently within a complex organization, provide both solicited and unsolicited advice, and dare to take a clear stance.
• Analytical with a social drive: you fathom figures and risks, keep the bigger picture in mind for the city and its inhabitants, and are energized by helping to build a role that is still very much in development.