IT Chapter Lead Accounting & GL development

We are looking for an IT Chapter Lead to lead the Accounting and GL development chapter within Financial Accounting.

You will lead a chapter of engineers in the Netherlands, India, and Poland. With them, you are responsible for finding ways to deliver software fast, securely, and within ING standards while continuously improving the way you and your engineers do their work. Working closely with architects ensures a safe and compliant bank. Our IT Chapter Leads have a positive can-do mindset, and they behave in the Orange Code Behavior. Besides a passion for IT, Chapter Leads have strong people management skills.

The Team

The members of the chapter are active in different squads in the Finance and Procurement domain and are working in an agile way together with COOF colleagues in BusDevOps teams. This area is going through a time of many developments and changes, making it a dynamic area in which there is lots of opportunity to learn, grow, and excel.

Roles and Responsibilities

As an IT Chapter Lead, you are a senior engineer, and you are seen by colleagues as a go-to person. Along with the IT Area Lead and your fellow IT Chapter Leads, you set the standards for software development in your area of expertise. You have not only a strong drive to constantly keep your own expertise up to speed, but also make an active contribution to the development and advancement of the people in your chapter and your field.

As an IT Chapter Lead, you are also a “doer”. Sixty percent of your time, you work as a senior engineer. You use your seniority to maximize team performance. You like to transfer your expertise to colleagues in the chapter and feel satisfaction from coaching (both professionally and personally) less senior chapter members.

You work in an international environment. You are ambitious with what you and your Chapter want to achieve. You stimulate your Chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills. You speak up and challenge the status quo.

• Bachelor/Master’s degree diploma in Engineering or related fields
• Strong expertise in Oracle ERP/GL solutions, Aptitude. Knowledge and expertise in other vendor solutions like SAP and Salesforce is considered a plus for the vacancy.
• Strong expertise in ETLs, especially Informatica PowerCentre and Informatica IDMC
• Strong people management skills. You create opportunities for your employees to reach their full potential and encourage team development.
• Experience in the financial industry, especially with Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Regulatory Reporting, and Financial Procurement functions.
• You create a culture in which employees take responsibility, help each other to be successful, and remain a step ahead.
• Experience and thorough understanding of continuous delivery, deployment tools, and pipelines.
• An operations heart to keep the IT Area’s systems compliant, reliable, and running smoothly.
• You embrace change and are not afraid of frequently changing project direction or stakeholder environment.
• Strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general. We see the IT Chapter Leads as senior engineers who carve the path of ING Bank’s digital transformation.
• Great analytical skills and conceptual/architectural understanding, ability to learn new technical concepts fast.
• Ability to constantly balance the pressure of (IT Risk) targets of the teams you oversee and the quality of software they deliver.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodologies.

How to Succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• You embrace change and are not afraid of frequently changing project direction or stakeholder environment.
• Strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general. We see the IT Chapter Leads as senior engineers who carve the path of ING Bank’s digital transformation.
• Great analytical skills and conceptual/architectural understanding, ability to learn new technical concepts fast.
• Ability to constantly balance the pressure of (IT Risk) targets of the teams you oversee and the quality of software they deliver.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodologies.
• Last but not least, a hard-working, down-to-earth mentality.

Rewards and Benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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