Jr. Project Manager – Strategy & Transformation Office Group Finance

Are you an ambitious Jr. Project manager that knows how to handle projects, can support the delivery of larger programs and has affinity with the difficult topics in the Finance landscape? Do you want to further advance your career in Project Management and contribute towards our finance community and achieving the desired Future Ready state? Reach out!

What you are going to do

As Jr. Project Manager you will directly support and work together with our Project- and Program Managers in multi-disciplinary change initiatives in areas such as Finance Strategy, Process Optimization & Redesign,  Finance Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions and Regulatory implementations. You will take the lead in ensuring effective and efficient change execution and will act as the trusted go-to person in terms of project management support and central project oversight to ensure projects realize the desired results within time and budget.

You will take responsibility to support the end-to-end delivery of our change initiatives, from initiation (analysing current core finance processes; understanding business context & translate to tangible outcomes & deliverables; preparing workshops with content experts) to project delivery (milestone planning; status reporting; monitoring of key risks, issues and dependencies; insight in project financials and business cases), besides picking up your own (sub-)projects.

Other responsibilities are:

• Support delivery of larger programs and own (smaller scale) projects or workstreams across Group Finance within scope and time
• Act as the vital link between Business, IT, and other stakeholders and proactively liaise to align on deliverables and actionable next steps
• Produce management information including scenario analysis, impact analysis and documents that are ‘for decision’ and organize impactful Steering Committees
• Proactively contribute solutions, deliver insights for challenges and support driving decision making to achieve strategic objectives

What we offer you
NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

• Salary between €3,891 and €5,188 based on 36 hours per week and depending on your knowledge and experience
• 13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
• 27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and 3 Diversity Days
• A modern pension administered by BeFrank
• Plenty of training and learning opportunities
• NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometers travelled
• Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use

Who you are

We are looking for someone with Project Management skills and 2-3 years’ experience in supporting project execution and delivering PMO tasks, with affinity in the field of Finance. You have a proactive attitude, you have a natural talent for stakeholder management and building relationship across departments, you thrive when working on complex topics and know how to align diverse interest towards a common goal,  you are a self-starter who takes ownership and likes to analyze, solve problems and deliver.  

Next to the above you:

• Are convincing, a critical thinker and can adapt a story to different audiences
• Have a high learning agility, meaning you can easily adapt and absorb new information in a changing environment
• Have a Prince2 and/ or Agile certification or the ambition to get these
• Are a strong communicator, fluent in both Dutch and English
• Have a relevant University Degree; preferably a degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Business & IT or similar

Who you will work with

You will be part of our pool of Project & Change management experts within the Strategy & Transformation Office team, in a dynamic environment within a diverse team of finance and change professionals with which you will work on a daily basis. You will be supported in taking the lead in designing your own career path, by helping you to build content expertise in a specific or a variety of Finance domains and/or to develop yourself towards a Project/ Program Manager role in the future.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the job, you can reach out via mail to Arjan Schoemaker, Head of Strategy & Transformation Office via [email protected].
 

Any questions about the process can be directed to Danitscha Vrolijk-Mahadew, Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist via [email protected].