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As a financial coordinator in the Real Estate & Housing department, you focus on the business-economic aspects of housing dossiers and investment projects. Additionally, you advise colleagues and management team members. This is a varied role with a good work-life balance and an excellent collective labor agreement (CAO).

YOUR ROLE

As the financial coordinator for the Real Estate & Housing (V&H) department, you are responsible for corporate budgets and financial accountability. In addition to portfolio management development, your main deliverables include the housing account (HVR) and the allocation of energy costs.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Overseeing the planning & control cycle within V&H.
• Optimizing and streamlining work processes within V&H and ensuring compliance with internal financial procedures.
• Managing property tax (WOZ), environmental levies, and insurance portfolios.
• Setting up subsidy management within Wageningen University & Research (WUR).
• Preparing financial annexes for the Real Estate Report (VGR), Housing Account (HVR), corporate budgets, taxes & levies, energy cost allocation, and project & portfolio management.
  In this role, you will communicate with managers from various WUR departments and Corporate Finance & Control. You will also collaborate closely with managers from Real Estate Policy, Construction & Housing Management, and Safety & Environment to optimize financial management in their respective sections. A financial officer supports you in processing financial data, and this officer falls under your functional supervision.

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed year-end bonus of 8,3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will of course receive a good salary. We offer, depending on your experience, a competitive gross salary of between €3.868,- and €6.008,- for a full-time working week of 36 hours, in accordance with the CLA Wageningen Research (scale 11). As for your contract, we initially offer a one-year contract that can be extended - if possible within (company) organizational circumstances - on good performance. Of course, we are happy to have a conversation with you if you have any questions about this.
Wageningen University & Research offers plenty of opportunities for growth and development, with a strong internal recruitment policy and excellent training programmes.
You will work on the greenest and most innovative campus in the Netherlands, in an international and open working environment. For 20 consecutive years, we have been voted the “best university” in the Netherlands! A place to be proud of. The mission of Wageningen University & Research is ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’.
We pursue this mission through a synergistic approach between Wageningen University and Wageningen Research Foundation (applied research). Our research focuses on questions within the domains of food, living environment, and society. With approximately 30 locations, 7,700 staff members, 2,500 PhD candidates, and over 13,000 students, Wageningen University & Research is among the world’s leading knowledge institutions in its domain. The integral approach to challenges and the collaboration across various disciplines form the core of the unique Wageningen approach.
Read the 5 reasons why your future colleagues enjoy working at WUR.
We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves and do not appreciate unasked for services from recruitment agencies. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.
To succeed in this role, you should have a hands-on mentality, be proactive, analytically strong, and work accurately.