Business controller in Zwolle

• Salary: € 4,195 to € 6,992 on a full-time basis, depending on your experience.

• Freedom of choice in leave: you determine how many days off you take, up to 38 per year. Choose from regular leave, the aaff budget, or extra days via your salary. Anything you do not use from the aaff budget, we will pay out.

• Home office budget of € 550: to set up your home workplace comfortably and ergonomically.

• Allowance for working from home: € 2.45 per home working day + € 40 net internet allowance per month.

• Sustainable travel: whether you go to the office or to clients by (electric) car, on foot, by bicycle, or by public transport, you can count on an appropriate reimbursement. For more than 7,500 business kilometers per year, you can choose an electric lease car or a mobility budget. Want to know more? See our employment conditions, under Mobility.

• Space for growth, deepening, and broadening: develop yourself further via the aaff academy or external training, simply during working hours.

• Annual € 200 vitality budget: for your mental and physical health and always access to our online platform OpenUp.

• Flexible leave savings: for a sabbatical, a longer trip, or time for yourself.

• Exchange holidays: choose two days that suit your religion or culture.

• Laptop and phone: everything you need to do your job well.

Strategy, finance, and operations come together in your role as a business controller. You join the management team, contribute thinking at a strategic level, and translate complex developments into sharp insights and concrete actions. This is not a role in which you only provide figures, but a position in which you provide direction: you interpret, signal, and advise—both requested and unsolicited.

Right now is *the* moment to join. aaff is transforming the way it manages and explicitly positions Business Control as a strategic sparring partner in decision-making. That means room to build, influence over how we work, and direct impact on the performance of multiple business units.

Extra interesting: at aaff, you are more than an employee. You are one of our 2,000 co-owners. Through our participation scheme, you can invest every year and thus share in our profits. Nice, isn't it?

You will undoubtedly be an advisory member of the management team of your business units. You monitor progress toward strategic goals, signal deviations, and ensure that management sees in a timely manner where adjustments are needed. In doing so, you look beyond the financial figures: it is precisely the developments surrounding employees, operations, customers, and commerce that are the early signals used for management. The financial results follow from that.

You analyze a wide range of KPIs, such as revenue, gross margin, billability, capacity, and cost development. Alongside the figures, you primarily bring the causes, risks, and possible interventions into view. In this way, you provide the Director Finance & Control with an independent judgment on the performance of your business units. Together with the HX Business Partner, who brings in employee absenteeism and turnover, you arrive at a single integral advice: concrete, substantiated, and aimed at decision-making.

Additionally, you prepare the budget and forecast for your services, including scenarios and management interpretations. You help management take ownership of improvement actions. In this, you work closely with your colleagues within Business Control, Human Experience (HX), Financial Control, the Data Team, and the Strategic Transformation Office (STO).

• You are a strategic sparring partner to the management of two to three business units and advise both requested and unsolicited.

• You form an independent judgment on the performance of your business units and report on this to the Director Finance & Control.

• Using the OGSM methodology, you monitor progress toward the strategic goals of your business units and translate deviations into concrete actions and interventions.

• You analyze KPI developments, perform root cause analyses, and advise on measures including expected impact.

• You prepare budgets and forecasts, including scenarios and management interpretations.

• You form a permanent tandem with the HX Business Partner and connect financial insights with developments in the areas of employees, operations, customers, and commerce.

• You contribute to the further professionalization of Business Control within aaff, including through management information and performance reviews.

As of 2027, aaff is implementing a new management structure. As a business controller, you will be a member of the management team for the Northeast region, with Zwolle as the meeting location. You will participate in the monthly performance reviews with the responsible Board member, the director, and the HX Business Partner. You are therefore joining at the moment when building is taking place, with all the room to leave your mark at a senior level.

You will join a professional team that works nationally and is in full development. Once a week, all business controllers meet at a central location for alignment, knowledge sharing, benchmarks, and case studies; we learn from each other and make each other better. On the other days, you work independently and close to the business, with much autonomy in how you organize your work.

We are curious about your story and would love to hear how you will come to strengthen us as a co-owner. Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact Roos Lambregts, our recruiter, via roos.lambregts@aaff.nl or 06 81 73 93 04. Or apply directly.