Specialist Quality, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation

As Specialist in Quality, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our audit processes, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate across all audit domains, sharing insights and championing innovative solutions that elevate our performance.

You and your job
Ensuring a state-of-the-art internal audit function that adds value to Rabobank group by providing assurance, advice and insight. As a Quality Knowledge and Innovation Specialist, you can make a difference by facilitating your colleagues of Audit Rabobank in delivering high quality and value-added products that live up to our professional standards, stakeholder expectations and the latest innovations. Together with team members, you have the pro-active ability to translate external innovations into audit practice. Together we support Audit Rabobank professionals in gaining the latest business-, technical- and audit knowledge. Together we support change projects which ensure that Audit Rabobank continuously improves and keeps living up to its promise, also in the future.

The strategic goals of the team are to ensure the professional preconditions so that the management of Audit Rabobank and the auditors of Rabobank Group (global / including subsidiaries) can optimally implement the 3rd Line of Responsibility. Audit Rabobank broad quality assurance, training and management information are the most important elements.

Practical Examples

• Provide specialist guidance in accordance with leading industry practices regarding methods, techniques and tools to the audit functions of Rabobank Group (including branches and subsidiaries);
• You perform quality reviews (global) on the effectiveness of the relevant audit functions, the applied audit approach, and the performed audit activities. You are able to operate in the border area between audit and business and thus contribute to increasing the added value of Audit Rabobank;
• Focus on the permanent development of the audit function in the widest sense to respond better and in a timely manner to social developments and stakeholders’ wishes and requirements;
• Implementing innovations into audit practice;
• Facilitate and provide training (global) and develop tools which are applied by our audit professionals globally;
• Represent Audit Rabobank both internally and externally when it comes to internal audit and professional practice issues in professional associations and inter-bank bodies.

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week;
• QKI team exist of 6 professionals;
• You will support 280 auditors around the world;
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Quality Assurance: Develop and implement quality standards, ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Conduct quality reviews and process assessments to enhance quality across all audit domains;
• Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate knowledge exchange sessions, workshops, and training programs. Create and maintain a knowledge repository, fostering learning and growth;
• Innovation: Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and creative problem-solving. Collaborate with the audit community to explore cutting-edge technologies and methodologies.

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together peoples differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Audit Rabobank.

The team’s commitment to quality, knowledge sharing, and innovation is the driving force behind our collective success. Our team’s strength lies in each member’s unique expertise, and we ensure that we can step in for one another when needed. This way, we consistently provide top-notch support to all audit professionals and every team member stand in their strength.

Tjibbe Moed, manager QKI

The 6 people in Quality, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation are working together is the way we work; as 1 passionate, results-driven, problem-solving, expert and pragmatic team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• Up-to-date knowledge and experience in developing and implementing leading internal audit solutions, preferably with experience in the banking sector;
• Degree as an RA (Register Accountant), RO (Register Operational Auditor), RE (Register IT Auditor) or similar;
• A minimum of 10 years of audit experience (as audit manager and/or in professional practice);
• Proven track record in implementing/maintaining audit management solution(s) in an internal audit department or a comparable position with an international (audit) company or supervisory body (e.g. for the banking sector);
• Excellent verbal and written skills in both English and Dutch.

This is what we offer you

• Up to €8.793,26 gross per month (scale 10 or 11), depending on your knowledge and experience;
• Thirteenth months salary and 8% holiday allowance;
• An extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out;
• A personal budget of € 1.400,- to spend on activities related to your personal development and career;
• A €750,- budget to set up your home workplace and up to € 40,- for working from home allowance per month;
• A combination of working from home and at the office.

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a QKI specialist based on a 36 hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.

You and the job application process

• Any questions about the job content? Contact: Tjibbe Moed, Manager QKI or +31 610299312;
• Responses will be handled in accordance with vacancy management;
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Sanne Courant, Corporate Recruiter, via sanne.courant@Rabobank.nl (#LI-SC3);
• We will hold the interviews through a video call;
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq;
• A security check is part of the process;
• We respect your privacy.