Group Sustainability Controller

Are you a financial with interest in sustainability or the other way around? Do you enjoy working with ambitious colleagues who want to improve themselves every day? Do you want to work with the three pillars of sustainability – economic, social, and environmental – work together to help our organization to strive for a bright future? Then this might be the new challenge you are looking for! Vanderlande is currently further improving the sustainability reporting ensuring our compliance with the latest sustainability reporting standards and you can help our Group Financial Control team to play a key role in this.

Your responsibilities

As member of the Group Financial Control department within Group Finance you will be reporting to the Director of the Group Financial Control Team. You will help accelerate our sustainability reporting efforts and have a crucial role in the further implementation of the sustainability reporting regulations (CSRD and EU Taxonomy) within Vanderlande. Apart from the external reporting you will also play an instrumental role in our internal reporting on our sustainability targets towards the Management Board. You will do this together with the team and the project team focusing on our CSRD implementation.

As Group Sustainability Controller, you:

• Execute sustainability control at group level and advise the legal entities on local reporting requirements;
• Co-ordinate and prepare external reporting according to the monthly timelines and ensure high quality reporting;
• Develop ESG measurement and reporting policies;
• Address audit questions;
• Help translating the VI strategic Sustainability goals into a Finance strategy, roadmap and targets;
• Explore and propose innovative, efficient, and cost-effective data solutions to meet sustainability information needs and to drive sustainability performance.
• Support the stakeholders, by giving (un)solicited advise in the Sustainability Reporting domain;
• (Become a) Subject matter expert in Sustainability Reporting and assist in the implementation of the CSRD;
• Assist in the development of internal control framework covering sustainability;
• Initiate and participate in Sustainability programs with the continuous improvement mindset.