About this role
- Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR - Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR Career at WUR - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance Your job Do you have a passion for Finance, and are you comfortable preparing financial reports, invoices, processing financial entries and building audit files? And do you like doing this in a great environment that works on the most pressing themes of our time? Where research is done and solutions are found for food security, plant health and climate change? Then read on and apply quickly! We are looking for a project controller backoffice for the Plant Sciences Group (PSG) of Wageningen University & Research (WUR). As project controller backoffice you are the linking pin of the team, supporting your colleagues in Project Control with organising and carrying out all financial and administrative tasks for their project portfolio. - You take care of the accurate recording of project and master data, build strong project files and prepare interim and final claims and the related journal entries for projects. - You gradually build your own project portfolio with a varied mix of projects. - You oversee those projects yourself: you keep track of your own projects, spot what needs to happen and make sure it gets done. That is how you grow step by step towards your own portfolio and your own contacts with project leaders. You are part of the Finance & Control department of PSG, a large team of business and project controllers where there is always someone to spar with or learn from. And to deliver good numbers, you need to know where they come from. So you are not just behind your screen: you get to know the research, and sometimes you get your boots muddy. Out on the trial fields and in the greenhouses where the crops and cultivation methods of tomorrow are developed, you see what your projects are really about. And ...