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Date: Oct 31, 2025

Location: The Hague, NL, 2595 AK

Company: Aramco Europe

Aramco is one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies.

Aramco Europe is headquartered in The Hague with offices across the continent. For over 60 years we have supported Aramco with a wide range of activities from facilitating safe and reliable delivery of energy to customers around the globe to pushing for breakthroughs in research and innovation. 

Our services include in-depth technology advice and support in established and emerging sectors of oil, gas and energy, as well as finance, HR, legal, PR and communications.

We work with the very best industry suppliers to drive our operations to secure our position as a world leader in energy and chemicals. 

Goal

Along with the CFO, establish the strategic direction of AOC's Controller organization, develop AOC's accounting and
financial policies, manage operations and staff accounting functions and advise AOC Management on corporate finance strategies and ensure AOC complies with governing policies, accounting procedures and legislation

General Profile

  • Provides leadership to managers and/or professional staff
  • Is accountable for the performance and results of multiple related teams
  • Develops departmental plans, including business, production and/or organizational priorities
  • Decisions are guided by resource availability and functional objectives

Key Responsibilities

Coordinate the daily operations of AOC's Financial Controls and Business Control units and conduct Performance Management Process with direct reports and proactively support the development needs of the unit
Examine, reconcile and monitor disbursements and accounting entries and ensure compliance with established procedures and policies
Establish new, or revise current, accounting procedures, test validity and advise AOC Management on the development of AOC's accounting and financial policies
Present monthly Management Information System reports
Provide detailed information to the Dutch Customs Authorities in connection with the special customs license held by AOC for the handling of crude oil in bonded storage
Provide professional services and advice on a wide range of financial, foreign exchange and insurance matters
Implement approved changes in accounting procedures and ensure AOC personnel receives training as required
Coordinate the administration of all personal income and corporate tax matters
Investigate the significance of changes in account balances, identify contributing factors and advise AOC management accordingly
Coordinate the computing, compiling and processing of accounting data
Ensure documents, ledgers, records and manuals are maintained and controlled as assigned by policies and procedures
Coordinate review of system change proposals as developed by other AOC units in order to determine their impact on existing finance systems, procedures and operations and formulate sound recommendations
Conduct complex and long-range studies related to accounting, financial systems and economic trends
Control payroll and expense claims processes

Functional Specific Responsibilities

Contacts

External

  • Periodically with Public Accountants
  • Periodically with affiliate company personnel regarding financial matters of mutual concern
  • Periodically with service organizations, vendors, banks and Saudi Aramco Finance Business Lines regarding finance issues


Internal

  • Daily with other Finance personnel at all levels regarding financial data procedures and the coordination of day-to-day work
  • Daily with Chief Financial Officer regarding strategic direction, policies and procedures
  • Frequently with AOC Management regarding strategic direction and economic trends

Requirements

Master degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related field
Must be able to communicate and comprehend accurately in English
Finance certification holder such as CPA, CA or CMA
Preferably experience in foreign operation of Saudi Aramco, one of its affiliates, or another major oil company
Possesses a thorough knowledge of personal and corporate taxes and social security laws

Functional Specific Requirements

Required Competency Levels

Initiative
Addressing Gaps in Work

  • Initiates and supports activities and projects that address gaps in business goals and lead to improved business unit/function performance.

Motivating and Energizing Self and Others

  • Shows enthusiasm as a leader and inspires others to tackle challenges and deliver superior business unit/function results by displaying motivation, energy and passion.

Self-Storting

  • Fostering and supports an environment in which self-starters are nurtured, recognized, and rewarded across the business unit/function.


Quality Orientation
Understanding Quality Standards/Knowledge of Standards of Excellence

  • Develops standards of excellence for products and services and champions the development of quality assurance programs within the business unit/function.

Applying and Maintaining Qua1ity Standards

  • Incorporates feedback from internal and external customers to implement changes and improvements to quality standards within the business unit/function.

Measuring and Tracking Quality

  • Tracks quality standards of the business unit/function ensuring consistency and reliability of products and services across teams.


Customer Focus
Identifying and Anticipating Customer Needs

  • Seeks to understand the main business drivers of current and potential customers, and designs solutions accordingly.

Customer Care/Service

  • Creates and supports programs that improve the business unit/function's reputation for providing excellent customer service; understands the external factors that may impact a customer's perspective.

Following Customer Service Trends

  • Anticipates emerging trends that will impact future customer needs and prepares the business unit/function to respond.


Accountability
Taking Responsibility and Ownership

  • Creates conditions in which employees have the opportunity to grow and assume more responsibility and decision-makingauthority.

Driving and Delivering Results

  • Creates and sustains an atmosphere where accountability,performance and results are valued and recognized by the organization; is responsible for implementing the organization's strategy into a business unit/ function .

Managing Expectations ond Working Through Setbacks

  • Creates a sense of responsibility throughout the organization for honoring time commitments in the achievement of goals and for ensuring high-quality standards.


Networking/Relationship Management
Seeking and Developing Relationships

  • Establishes business partnerships and alliances across the organization by finding common interests and mutually beneficial ground for coming together.

Maintaining Relationships

  • Actively maintains relationships with key indivi duals in the organization to build support and ensure the success of long -term goa ls.

Use of Networks

  • Strategically leverages internal and external networks to achieve professional and businessunit/ function goals.

Required Competency Levels (cont)

Leadership Competencies


Developing People
Helping Others to Assess Skills and Opportunities

  • Understands the development needs of direct reports and supports them in the development of their own direct reports to fill in gaps for the future.

Creating Developmental Opportunities

  • Shapes developmental roles and assignments to balance individual and business unit/function needs.

Giving Feedback

  • Provides in depth, one-on-one coaching to enable others to achieve performance goals and maximize their potential.


Inspiring and Motivating Others
Inspirational Communication

  • Uses creative communication methods such as storytelling and visual imagery to communicate business unit/function goals,

Creating Energy and Commitment

  • Communicates personal investment in the organization and its success to demonstrate commitment to employees and build the sense that "we are in this together",

Maintaining Positive Morale

  • Ensures that employee engagement is measured regularly within the business unit/function and implements appropriate measures to sustain engagement.


Building Talent
Selecting Talent and Building Capability

  • Makes selection decision with the organization's overall talent management strategy in mind.

Deploying Talent

  • Encourages leaders to balance strengths and development areas among employees when assigning talent, ensuring a diverse distribution of necessary skills to meet the business unit/function's goals.

Planning for Future Talent Needs

  • Recommends initiatives that strengthen and align talent development with future needs of the business unit/function; provides input for succession planning.


Stakeholder Management
Understanding Stakeholders

  • Anticipates the needs, drivers and constraints of stakeholders and applies t his knowledge in communications and decisionsacross the businessunit/function.

Maintaining Stakeholder Relationships

  • Maintains formal and informal contact with stakeholdersdeveloping long-term trusting relationships.

Achieving Beneficial Outcomes

  • Recognizes organizational and business interests and engages appropriate stakeholders in making critical decisions to ensure buy-in and desirable outcomes


Strategic Visioning
Identifying Valuable/StrategicOpportunities

  • Uses knowledge of the business model, and challenges assumptions and conventional thinking to develop new strategies for the business unit or function.

Communicating and Translating the Vision

  • Communicates the organization's vision to the business unit/function to gain support and motivate others and build asense of shared purpose.

Visionary Thinking and Follow-Through

  • Identifies criteria to assess strategic alignment andsuccess of plans tracking against measurable business unit/function success factors.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Requisition ID: 931

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