Financial regulator for local governments

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will be part of the Financial Oversight team within the Oversight Unit, a division of the Administration and Strategy sector at the Province of North Holland. Together with your eight colleagues, you will assess the financial position of 44 municipalities in North Holland and approximately 40 joint arrangements, monitoring the development of their financial positions.

As a partner to these local governments, you will maintain close contact with them and encourage them to pursue sound financial policies. You will independently analyze and evaluate budgets, financial statements, and other financial decisions. Based on your problem analyses, you will provide targeted advice and participate in discussions at both the administrative and executive levels, particularly when financial difficulties arise.

The main responsibilities of this position are:

• Account Management: You will serve as the point of contact for several municipalities and joint arrangements. You will build and maintain a relationship based on trust, ensuring that these local governments know where to turn when financial developments arise.
• Financial review and advice: You will review budgets, financial statements, and other financial decisions on an annual basis. Based on this review, you will advise the King’s Commissioner on possible next steps.
• Information Provision and Oversight: You will inform municipal councils and joint administrative bodies about the decisions made by the Provincial Executive. In cases requiring enhanced oversight, you will play an active role in the administrative process.
• Broad collaboration: In addition to financial oversight, you will work with colleagues in other areas of oversight—such as environmental law, information management, and housing for status holders—to strengthen the coherence and effectiveness of our oversight.

The Supervision Team

We are an open and professional team where responsibility and collaboration are key. Supervisory duties are divided by region, and each employee works closely with a coordinator and a colleague in accordance with the four-eyes principle (primus/secundus), ensuring that there is always a sounding board and a second reader.

Here's what we offer

• A gross monthly salary between €3,644.44 and €5,133.31 (pay grade 10) based on a 36-hour workweek. This does not include the Individual Choice Budget, which amounts to approximately 22% of your gross monthly salary and can be used, among other things, to take additional days off.
• A budget of €6,000 over five years that you can use to ensure your long-term employability: to continue doing your job well and with energy, both now and in the future.
• An annual pay raise of 3%, up to the top of your pay scale.
• A good pension plan that the province helps fund.
• Full reimbursement for commuting and business travel when using public transportation.
• A lot of freedom, flexibility, and responsibility.
• A one-year contract, with the intention of offering you a permanent contract at the end of that year.
• A job where you and your colleagues decide where you work. You can work partly from home and partly at our office in downtown Haarlem, which offers a variety of workspaces.
• We also provide a desk, monitor, and other equipment so you can set up your home office properly.  

And that’s not all. Visit www.noord-holland.nl/werkenbij to find out what else you can expect as an employee at Noord-Holland.

This is where you'll be working

At the Province of North Holland, you’re building the future. Every day, you and 1,400 colleagues work together to create a beautiful, pleasant, and safe living and working environment for nearly 3 million residents of North Holland. We do this in an innovative way. We promote and facilitate smart mobility, the energy transition, large-scale nature development, and the latest technologies, such as smart apps. And your future is also central to us. You’ll have every opportunity to choose the direction you want to take and to realize your ambitions. We support you in this. For example, with a generous training budget and the opportunity, in consultation, to temporarily dive into another project or launch an initiative.

Financial supervision is part of the Supervision Unit and falls under the Governance & Strategy sector. A project lead is overseeing the further development of this unit.

This is you

• Strong in verbal and nonverbal communication: you communicate clearly, engagingly, persuasively, and motivatingly. You are skilled at conducting conversations, use nuanced language, and ask the right questions.
• Solution-oriented: You have a no-nonsense attitude and are a good team player.
• Aware of your surroundings: you know your way around both within and outside the organization and are also aware of the various interests at play.
• An enthusiastic and flexible colleague with a keen understanding of political and administrative dynamics and a strong sense of social responsibility.

You also have:

• A bachelor's degree program with a specialization in (public) finance (including both foundational and advanced courses).
• Experience working in government or municipal finance, and/or as a supervisor in an administrative setting.

If you don’t fully meet this profile yet, but believe your knowledge and/or experience make you a good fit for this position, please feel free to apply.

Join our team

Please apply by December 1, 2024, via the apply button. Please send your application, including a current resume and cover letter, addressed to Sanne Heesmans, Deputy Sector Manager for Policy and Strategy. Would you like more information about the position first? Please call or text Wilma de Wit-Scholten, Financial Supervision Coordinator, at 06-3168 8131. For questions about the application process, please contact the HR Info Service Desk at 023 – 514 5222, option 3.

Good to know

• We work on behalf of everyone in North Holland. And we can do that best if our teams reflect the province’s population. That is why we strive for diversity in our teams.
• A Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) is required for a job with the province.