Teamlead Finance, Operations and Control in Public Administration

0.8-1.0 fte | Utrecht | hybrid | € 7,779-10,884 | Public Administration | MSc

Municipalities, provinces, and the National Government face major financial challenges. Pressure on public finances is increasing, while societal challenges in the areas of housing, healthcare, sustainability, and accessibility continue unabated. Administrators are looking for solutions that are both financially sustainable and socially responsible.

As Teamlead Finance, Operations and Control at Berenschot, you provide direction to these complex issues. You act as a strategic advisor to administrators, boards, and management teams, while simultaneously building upon the further development of an ambitious team of advisors. You combine substantive expertise with leadership, entrepreneurship, and a strong sense of the administrative context.

As teamlead, you are both substantively and organizationally responsible for the further development of the Finance, Operations and Control team. You advise administrators, municipal secretaries, boards, group controllers, and management teams on complex financial and operational issues.

Your duties include:

• leading complex advisory assignments for municipalities, provinces, and other public organizations

• advising on the financial sustainability of municipalities and provinces, budgetary issues, budget cuts, and the affordability of societal challenges

• developing new propositions and identifying opportunities in the market

• maintaining and further expanding your network within public administration

• managing, guiding, coaching, and developing colleagues within the team

• contributing to acquisition, quotes, and commercial processes

• further strengthening Berenschot's market position within the domain of Finance, Operations and Control within public administration.

You are part of the management team of Berenschot's Public Administration advisory group. You are visible in the public domain, closely follow administrative and financial developments, and know how to translate these into innovative services for our clients.

Berenschot is an independent Dutch organizational consultancy firm in Utrecht, where more than 500 driven colleagues work on sustainable solutions for the challenges of our clients. We contribute to progress in organizations and society with our advice and solutions. Our organization has a flat structure without partners, which gives you influence over the projects you carry out.

You become part of the Public Administration advisory group: a multidisciplinary team of over 100 professionals with diverse expertise. Here, public administration specialists, financial specialists, lawyers, crisis and security experts, political scientists, communication advisors, and experts in various societal themes work together intensively on the challenges of the public sector.

Within this advisory group, you lead the Finance, Operations and Control team, consisting of approximately ten experienced advisors. Our colleagues are curious, analytical, and have clear opinions, always based on knowledge, facts, and professionalism. At the same time, we find enjoyment to be at least as important. We regularly organize drinks, inspiration sessions, team days, and work meetings at special locations. We challenge each other, help each other forward, and celebrate successes together.

You are an experienced consultant with natural leadership. You understand how public administration works, move easily within administrative relationships, and are a strong interlocutor for administrators and boards.

In addition, you possess:

• a completed MSc degree

• extensive experience within or for municipalities, provinces, or other government organizations

• demonstrable consultancy experience

• experience leading complex advisory assignments

• a strong network within public administration

• experience with leadership, coaching, or team development

• excellent communication skills and administrative sensitivity

• entrepreneurship and commercial insight.

Do you have experience as a (former) alderman, financial administrator, group controller, municipal secretary, or in a similar strategic role within the government? Then your profile aligns perfectly with this role.

At Berenschot, we offer a unique commercial environment without shareholders or partners. This gives us a lot of space and freedom to take initiative and the opportunity to commit ourselves to important social themes. Our informal culture is characteristic. Berenschot is a flat organization with short communication lines where you are truly listened to. There are plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth, where your initiative is embraced and facilitated. You have the freedom to take initiative here. Our diverse and inclusive personnel policy embraces diversity and offers everyone equal opportunities.

Of course, we also offer the following excellent employment conditions and great development opportunities:

• a one-year contract, with the absolute intention to offer you a permanent contract after one year

• an attractive salary between € 7,779.– and € 10,884.– gross per month (based on full-time employment), tailored to your knowledge and experience

• an additional teamlead fee, appropriate to the responsibilities of this role

• a representation allowance of € 3,000.– per year

• a regular collective profit-sharing scheme (depending on the results of the company)

• an attractive pension scheme

• 27 vacation days, with the possibility to purchase a maximum of 20 additional vacation days in the case of full-time employment

• flexible holidays; we offer the possibility to shift official holidays to days that are meaningful to you

• a mobility scheme of your choice: a company car or a mobility budget

• a laptop and phone

• the freedom to, in consultation with your colleagues, determine where and when you work

• plenty of room for development through internal and external training.

Do you want to become a proud Berenschotter? Don't wait any longer and apply!

Please contact Mariëlle Boer via WhatsApp, telephone (06-10 48 71 59) or email (marielle.boer@berenschot.nl).

Do you have any substantive questions about this vacancy? Floris Bannink, managing director, would be happy to tell you more about the position, via f.bannink@berenschot.nl.

We receive applications up to and including Sunday, September 13. The first interviews will take place in the second half of September.

Have you applied? Then you will receive a response within one working week. Is it positive? Then we would like to invite you for an introduction. Are we both enthusiastic after this conversation? Then a conversation with fellow advisors and your future manager will follow. That is the moment to ask your final questions. Do those conversations go well? Then we will ask you to complete our assessment. Does it turn out that you are a true Berenschotter? Then we will quickly proceed to a concrete offer. After this, you are a true Berenschotter and we would like to welcome you to our team.