(Junior) Business Controller

Have you recently graduated or are you at the start of your career? Are you interested in finance, data analysis, automation and technology, and would you like to work for an organisation committed to tackling important societal challenges in food, health and sustainability?

Then this could be your opportunity.

At Wageningen University & Research (WUR), we are looking for a (Junior) Business Controller who wants to further develop into a financial professional. As a (Junior) Business Controller, you will work in a dynamic environment on a wide range of strategic and policy-related financial issues.

Your responsibilities include:

• Supporting budgets, quarterly reports and financial analyses for different parts of the organisation;
• Working together with colleagues to prepare management information and organisation-wide reports;
• Analysing financial developments and identifying opportunities for improvement;
• Contributing ideas on how data, automation and technology can be applied within Finance;
• Improving processes and reports to help colleagues gain faster and better insights;
• Supporting a variety of financial and business-related questions from across the organisation.

Depending on your experience, interests and development, we will work with you to determine which responsibilities best suit you.

Your team
The Corporate Finance & Control (CF&C) department is responsible for WUR's financial policy and financial information at corporate level. CF&C consists of two teams: Corporate Business Control and Financial Accounting & Internal Control.

You will join the Corporate Business Control team. Together with your colleagues, you will work on budgets, reports, analyses and financial issues that directly contribute to the strategic direction and development of WUR. At the same time, we help the organisation work smarter by further automating processes and exploring and applying new technologies.

(Junior) Business Controller

Ben jij net afgestudeerd of sta je aan het begin van je carrière? Heb je interesse in finance, data-analyse en automatisering en technologie en wil je werken in een organisatie die zich inzet voor belangrijke maatschappelijke uitdagingen op het gebied van voedsel, gezondheid en duurzaamheid?

Dan is dit jouw kans.
Bij Wageningen University & Research (WUR) zoeken we een (Junior) Business Controller die zich wil doorontwikkelen tot een financial professional. Als (junior) Business Controller werk je in een dynamische omgeving met uiteenlopende beleidsbepalende vraagstukken.

Jouw werkzaamheden zien er als volgt uit:

• Ondersteunen bij begrotingen, kwartaalrapportages en financiële analyses voor verschillende onderdelen van de organisatie;
• Samen opstellen van managementinformatie en organisatiebrede rapportages;
• Analyseren van financiële ontwikkelingen en signaleren van verbetermogelijkheden;
• Meedenken over de toepassing van data en automatisering binnen finance;
• Verbeteren van processen en rapportages zodat collega's sneller en beter inzicht krijgen;
• Ondersteunen bij uiteenlopende vraagstukken vanuit de organisatie.

Afhankelijk van jouw ervaring, interesses en ontwikkeling kijken we samen welke werkzaamheden het beste bij je passen.

Jouw team
De afdeling Corporate Finance & Control (CF&C) is op concernniveau verantwoordelijk voor het financieel beleid en de informatievoorziening van WUR. De afdeling CF&C is opgedeeld in twee teams: Corporate Business Control en Financial Accounting & Internal Control.

Je gaat werken in team Corporate Business Control. Samen met je collega's werk je aan begrotingen, rapportages, analyses en financiële vraagstukken die direct bijdragen aan de koers en ontwikkeling van WUR. Daarnaast helpen we de organisatie steeds slimmer te werken door processen verder te automatiseren en nieuwe technologieën toe te passen.

Postdoc in Developmental Psychology

Today’s young people are coming of age in a dangerously warming world, facing uncertainty about their future. How can we address climate change in our schools? The aim of this project is to develop a transformative approach to climate change education and communication for youth. This approach integrates realistic climate information with hope and agency, moving away from traditional threat-based (“doom-and-gloom”) climate education. In particular, our approach invites youth to imagine desirable futures and translate their visions for the future into concrete actions they can take in their everyday lives. Using a mixed-method approach, we crowdsource and co-create scalable climate education and communication methods and evaluate their effects in educational settings.

In this position you will be responsible for co-designing, preparing, and coordinating research, writing peer-reviewed research publications, and disseminating knowledge to inform educational and communication professionals. You will work as part of the transdisciplinary FUTUREPROOF team, bringing together expertise from psychology, education, and communication science, as well as from educational professionals and youth. You must enjoy the challenges that come with working in an emerging area of research and be comfortable with working in teams. You will receive mentorship in further developing their own, independent program of research and grant development.

EngD in Digital Textile Manufacturing and Systems

Textile machines are often digital, but they are rarely connected or ready for data-driven work with machine learning and AI. Much of the production knowledge still lives in the heads and hands of operators. As a result, designers, producers, repairers and recyclers work in isolated steps, and valuable know-how and material are lost along the way. As an EngD trainee, you will help prepare textile production for the AI and ML age, and you will show how production and prototyping data can inform and redesign the complete value chain.

What you will do
You will design, build and adapt experimental machine setups with textile producers and machine builders, for example by adding sensors and controls or by linking machine settings to design files. You will use data science, machine learning and AI to turn machine, production and ecosystem data into insights that operators, designers and partners can use. Beyond machines, you will analyze how data-enabled production affects the wider ecosystem, from design and material choices to small-batch production, repair, reuse and recycling.

Working with people
This is a collaborative role. You will learn from operators and technicians, co-design with small companies, and turn fieldlab learning into workflows, demonstrators and open knowledge that others can build on. You will work in a public-private fieldlab with TU/e, industry, design researchers and the Dutch Textile Campus, with close supervision and room to grow as an engineer.

Why it matters
Your work helps Dutch textile SMEs meet new European circularity rules without losing their own craft, and keeps textiles and materials in use for longer. Moreover, the semiconductor industry in Eindhoven was built with engineering companies who made machinery for Textile companies. In this project we look to see how the knowledge generated informs all industries in the region.

PhD on natural visual patterns, mental wellbeing, and overheating resilience

Can we reduce stress, thermal discomfort and energy consumption for cooling in homes by harnessing visual exposure to nature-inspired facade designs? Can we disentangle the beneficial effects of daylight and nature exposure through windows? How can we best navigate the trade-off between access to view and the amount and quality of daylight and nature content provided by a nature-inspired façade? These are some of the scientific challenges you will work on in this PhD project.

This PhD position is part of the wider ΝWO KIC project “Nature4Homes: Nature-driven building skin interventions for energy efficiency, occupant comfort, health, and biodiversity in dwellings”, which brings together the domains of building engineering, building physics, environmental psychology, meteorology, and thermophysiology to develop nature-driven building skin solutions that enhance occupant health and comfort while reducing cooling demand. This PhD project focuses specifically on the domains of environmental psychology, lighting research, and building physics.

You will conduct your research within the Human-Technology Interaction group (HTI) at TU/e, which has a long history in lighting research and environmental psychology, with a secondment at the Environmental & Climate Design section at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), which has extensive expertise in building physics and indoor environmental quality.

In this PhD, you will investigate whether visual patterns from nature across different layers of the building skin (e.g., the façade itself, the view to the outside) within an occupant’s field of view can support mental wellbeing, increase acceptance, and enhance tolerance to visual and thermal discomfort indoors, particularly during periods of summer overheating. To address these questions, you will review the literature, perform experiments in virtual reality and real conditions, co-create nature-inspired façade elements, and test them in field studies. Your work would include collecting self-reported, physiological, and environmental data, and apply building simulation, computer vision, and advanced statistical methods for their analysis. The project also involves close collaboration with industry partners such as shading system manufacturers to develop nature-inspired façade interventions. These will be tested at the “Green Village” living lab housing of TU Delft. Throughout your PhD, you will be supervised by Dr. Kynthia Chamilothori (main supervisor) and Prof. Yvonne de Kort (promotor) at the Human-Technology Interaction group of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), as well as Dr. Eleonora Brembilla (co-promotor) at the Environmental & Climate Design section at TU Delft. You will be based at TU/e with a secondment at TU Delft.