Project Leader

Project overview

Do you have experience as a project leader? Then we are looking for you!

The Position

The planning and control cycle within the Municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk is under development. Significant investments have been made in the financial function recently. The next step is to develop an organization-wide P&C cycle where management, budget holders, board advisory, communication, and finance jointly bear responsibility for an effective process.

As an Interim Project Leader P&C / Quartermaster, you will lead the creation of P&C products from a multidisciplinary project team and ensure that information is delivered from the organization in a timely, complete, and qualitative manner. Simultaneously, you will analyze and improve the process design, collaboration, and ownership within the organization.

You are explicitly not only responsible for realizing the products within the P&C cycle. During the execution, you will develop a future-proof working method, clear roles, and a sustainable process design.

During the assignment, you will independently work on the following results:

About the Company

The Organization

The Municipality of Bodegraven-Reeuwijk is an organization of approximately 300 employees who take responsibility, show initiative, and work together to build a reliable, connecting, and vital organization. With the program 'Basis op orde, naar een gezonde organisatie' (Getting basics in order, towards a healthy organization), the municipality is working on further professionalizing processes, leadership, and business operations. The Project Leader P&C / Quartermaster assignment is part of this development task.

The Team

You will be part of the Finance, Legal Affairs, and Procurement (JIF) team. A broad business operations team that advises the organization on content and process. Within the financial cluster, you will work with financial consultants, financial administration employees, a financial administration coordinator, application management, tax employees, and a strategic financial advisor. You will also work closely with board advisory, communication, management, and the board. The financial cluster is characterized by craftsmanship, experience, and a strong willingness to further professionalize processes.

What You Bring

Offer

You will work with a team of enthusiastic colleagues within the spatial domain and can count on a good work-life balance. We also reward your commitment and performance with an attractive salary and appealing extras. Our employment conditions at a glance:

• Lead and coordinate the entire P&C process and monitor planning, quality, coherence, and progress;
• Collaborate with Finance, Board Advisory, Communication, Management, and budget holders;
• Ensure that substantive and financial information is available on time;
• Analyze bottlenecks in roles, ownership, collaboration, and support;
• Establish a multidisciplinary working method for collaboration around P&C;
• Clearly map out roles, responsibilities, process steps, and decision moments;
• Realize the P&C products according to the administrative planning;
• Develop and implement improvements during ongoing cycles;
• Prepare a future-proof proposal for the structural design and safeguarding of the P&C function;
• Deliver a complete handover file so that the organization can continue independently.
• Analysis of the current P&C process, including a plan of action.
• Timely and qualitative realization of the P&C products.
• Design of a multidisciplinary P&C working method.
• Documentation of roles, responsibilities, and process steps.
• Further development and improvement of the P&C cycle based on practical experience.
• Advice on structural design and positioning of the P&C function.
• Delivery of a handover file for the organization.
• HBO (higher professional education) work and thinking level, preferably financial-economic.
• Minimum of 5 years of recent experience with municipal P&C processes.
• Experience gained at multiple municipalities, including a small or medium-sized municipality.
• Extensive experience as an interim project leader, quartermaster, or similar role.
• Demonstrable knowledge of BBV (Budgetary Principles for Municipalities) and municipal financial processes.
• Strong advisory, analytical, and process skills.
• Experience with multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel.
• Experience with ERPX and/or LIAS is a plus.
• Competitive fixed salary, depending on knowledge and experience;
• 25 vacation days and 8.33% holiday allowance;
• Travel expenses reimbursement or lease car;
• Good pension scheme;
• Overtime arrangement: paid in salary or time off in lieu;
• The above applies to collaboration on contract; freelance (ZZP) is also possible, of course;
• Ongoing challenging assignments in the spatial domain;
• Intensive and personal guidance;
• Opportunity to participate in a personal coaching program;
• Inspiring masterclasses.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Bodegraven, NL
• Languages: Dutch