Business Development Assistant

Business Development Assistant at Grant Thornton Netherlands

As a Business Development Assistant, you are the beating heart of the team. You ensure everything runs smoothly, from appointments and international visits to supporting quotation processes and presentations. With your overview and proactive approach, you keep the team focused and informed. This role offers ample opportunities to engage with diverse challenges. Your career. Your choice.

What will you do?

As a Business Development Assistant, you will work closely with our core Financial Services (FS) team, which focuses on large (international) clients in the financial and banking sector. You will support daily organization, ensure information and actions are properly followed up, and keep internal communication tightly managed.

Your Key Activities

• Coordinating and optimizing agendas and planning, anticipating needs, setting priorities, and actively resolving bottlenecks.
• Providing broad support for projects and sales activities, including preparing and following up on actions.
• Preparing, elaborating, and taking minutes for meetings, as well as providing clear summaries and action overviews.
• Organizing internal events and gatherings from A to Z.
• Setting up and maintaining overviews and reports in Excel, PowerPoint, and CRM/sales funnel systems.

What do you bring?

• Preferably a minimum of HBO (higher professional education) work and thinking level combined with at least 3 years of work experience in a similar role (experience within the FS sector is a plus).
• Strong organizational and coordinating skills, maintaining an overview, setting priorities, and ensuring everything runs smoothly.
• A proactive and independent work attitude, allowing you to easily switch between ad-hoc tasks.
• Good communication skills to effectively liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with AFAS is a plus.

About the team

You will be part of Grant Thornton's Legal team, where expertise, collaboration, and growth go hand in hand. We work proactively and pragmatically on diverse legal issues for entrepreneurs, from corporate law and employment law to sustainable legal matters. In an open and collegiate atmosphere, you help clients keep their legal interests sharply in focus, so they can operate with confidence and comply with laws and regulations. Within the team, there is plenty of room for development and knowledge sharing.

You will primarily be located at our office in Amsterdam. This office is spread over two open floors with views of the Johan Cruijff ArenA and the Ziggo Dome. An inspiring place where you collaborate with colleagues on smart solutions for our clients.

What do we offer you?

Your career. Your choice. At Grant Thornton, you get all the space to grow both professionally and personally. Together with your Development Manager and through the Grant Thornton Academy, you work on your goals. You get the freedom to organize your work in a way that suits your ambition.

Furthermore, we offer you

• 29 vacation days, with the option to buy more.
• Excellent secondary employment conditions such as a year-end bonus and premium-free pension.
• Flexible working hours for 32 to 40 hours per week for a healthy work-life balance.
• The freedom to exchange standard public holidays for holidays from your own culture.

About Grant Thornton

Grant Thornton is a world-class network organization. Internationally, we are one of the largest accounting and advisory firms, ranking seventh worldwide! Here in the Netherlands, we enjoy the fantastic benefits of a smaller organization with an open culture, combined with the international opportunities and multicultural experience of one of the largest organizations in the world. We always go the extra mile. For our clients and especially for you. So that you have the very best work environment, one that is inclusive and where we are seriously committed to sustainability. We work for both profit and non-profit organizations. Specialize as you wish and work every day towards a world that fits your ideals and goals.

Ready to determine your path?

Apply today and discover how you can grow and contribute at Grant Thornton! Please note, good command of the Dutch language is a requirement.

Key skills/competency

• Business Development Support
• Agenda Management
• Project Coordination
• Sales Support
• Event Organization
• Reporting & Analysis
• Stakeholder Communication
• MS Office Suite
• Proactive Planning
• Financial Services Acumen