Business Controller

• A completed university degree, for example in Business Economics, Finance, Accountancy, Controlling, or Industrial Engineering & Management;

• Approximately 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience within controlling, accountancy, or project control;

• Experience with financial analyses, business cases, and project control;

• Strong analytical skills and a critical eye;

• You communicate easily with both financial and operational colleagues;

• You are independent, proactive, and dare to provide substantive counterweight;

• Affinity with data, Business Intelligence, and AI applications;

• Experience within the construction sector is a plus, but not a hard requirement.

• The salary for this position is between €4,291 and €5,364 gross per month (based on 40 hours)*, excluding 8% holiday allowance. The exact salary depends on your knowledge, level, and work experience.

• On top of the salary comes a fixed amount for the Sustainable Employability Budget for things that contribute to staying healthy and motivated (2.3% according to CAO Bouw & Infra).

• 43 leave days according to the Cao Bouw & Infra. Of these days, 13 are paid out in your individual budget; you can choose to buy these days back;

• A laptop and a smartphone;

• Excellent secondary employment conditions such as standard insurance for all employee risks, pension schemes, an extra supplement in case of disability, and a contribution towards trade union membership;

• You have the choice between a mobility budget, NS Business Card, or an electric lease car;

• With a permanent contract, you can choose a brand-new (electric) bicycle thanks to our partnership with lease-a-bike;

• Much attention to your growth thanks to our own Dura Vermeer Academy with plenty of education and training opportunities within your field, but also, for example, in the area of vitality;

• Company fitness scheme with a choice from a sports offering of over 3,500 sports locations throughout the Netherlands;

• A good work-life balance thanks to a flexible working policy and smooth arrangements for working hours, working times, emergencies, caregiving, or sabbatical;

• A fixed amount Sustainable Employability Budget for things that contribute to staying healthy and motivated;

• For new fathers and partners: 100% continued payment of your salary during the 5 weeks of supplementary birth leave, instead of the standard 70%.

Are you the financial sparring partner who takes projects to a higher level, even before the first shovel hits the ground?

Do you have several years of experience in finance, controlling, or accountancy and want to play a key role in the preparation of complex construction projects? Then this position is for you.

As a Business Controller at Dura Vermeer Bouw en Vastgoed Den Bosch, you are not only responsible for figures and reports. From the tender and quotation phase onwards, you are involved in projects and support project teams in making well-founded choices. You analyze risks, test contracts, draw up schedules, and ensure that projects start strong both financially and organizationally.

After the award and start-up of the project, you controlledly hand over the financial project control to the execution team and the project administration. In doing so, you play a crucial role in the success of our projects.

As a Business Controller, you work at the intersection of project control, business control, and tender management. You are an important sparring partner for Tender and Project Managers.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Financial guidance of projects from the quotation and tender phase to the start of construction;

• Drawing up business cases, project forecasts, and financial scenario analyses;

• Identifying risks and opportunities within tenders and projects;

• Testing contracts and financial agreements for both the client and the contractor sides;

• Drawing up and reviewing schedules and cash flow forecasts;

• Advising tender teams and project management on commercial and financial decision-making;

• Developing management information and dashboards using BI solutions;

• Investigating and applying AI and data-driven possibilities within project control;

• Monitoring financial principles before projects are handed over to execution and project administration.

Dura Vermeer is an independent family business in the Dutch construction sector, active in residential construction, non-residential construction, infrastructure, and technology. Since 1855, our independence and continuity have formed the basis of our strategy. With a turnover of €2.6 billion and 3,775 FTE, we belong to the top of the sector. We realize iconic and social projects and offer solutions for the future. Through our operating companies, we are rooted in the region, but with the strength of a national organization. We can only fulfill our ambitions through our people. That is why we strive for a working environment in which everyone feels safe, can be themselves, and can get the best out of themselves.

As Dura Vermeer Bouw en Vastgoed Den Bosch, we are an independent operating company within a larger whole. An organization of 150 employees that would love to welcome you, as a new colleague, into the family! Together we realize area and real estate development, residential construction, utility construction, renovation, and transformation - from new construction to the improvement and renewal of existing real estate in the Noord-Brabant and Limburg region.

As an employee of Dura Vermeer, you are part of a club of developers, builders, doers, and achievers. Sustainable collaboration is paramount: making plans together, sharing knowledge and successes together, and innovating together.

These requirements show the direction of the profile we are looking for in this position. If you do not recognize yourself in all the requirements, but do think this is the position for you, we would love to have a conversation with you.