Introduction to the job
As a Finance Project Manager, you help shape how finance supports one of the world’s most advanced technology companies. Your work enables transparent decision‑making, strong governance, and scalable financial processes that power innovation.
At ASML, we build the technology that enables the world’s leading chipmakers to create smaller, faster, and more energy‑efficient semiconductors. Finance plays a critical role in making this possible. In this Finance Project Manager role, you translate strategy into execution by leading complex finance transformation initiatives with real business impact.
You join ASML in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, working in a global, fast‑moving environment where ideas are challenged, collaboration drives progress, and integrity guides decisions. As a Finance Project Manager, you influence how finance evolves to support long‑term growth, resilience, and responsibility.
Role and responsibilities
As a Finance Project Manager, you lead high‑impact projects that improve how finance operates and delivers value. You work across stakeholders, balance structure with flexibility, and keep teams aligned on shared outcomes.
You will:
- Lead end‑to‑end finance transformation projects or major workstreams within larger programs.
- Translate strategic finance objectives into clear plans with measurable outcomes.
- Coordinate delivery across finance, technology, and business teams worldwide.
- Drive planning, risk management, dependencies, and milestone tracking.
- Enable effective governance, decision‑making, and timely escalation.
- Align solution design, requirements, and adoption across stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted project delivery partner for senior finance leaders.
Education and experience
To succeed as a Finance Project Manager, you bring a strong finance foundation combined with project leadership experience.
You have:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of experience delivering complex projects in large, international organizations.
- Proven experience in finance transformation, process improvement, or major change initiatives.
- Experience working with enterprise systems such as SAP and data‑driven reporting tools.
- A track record of leading cross‑functional teams without formal authority.
- Strong experience translating evolving requirements into structured, executable plans.
- Professional fluency in English, written and spoken.
Skills
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:
- Collaborate effectively across cultures, functions, and seniority levels.
- Analyze complex financial and operational topics to enable sound decisions.
- Communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders.
- Take ownership and proactively drive progress in changing environments.
- Balance structure with adaptability when priorities evolve.
- Build trust through integrity, reliability, and transparency.
- Challenge existing ways of working and improve them together.
Other information
You will report into the head of the Program Delivery team within the Transformation & Digital Finance organization. The role is based in Veldhoven and collaborates with global teams. Occasional international travel may be required.
ASML invests strongly in your development through learning programs, international career opportunities, and exposure to large‑scale transformation initiatives. As a Finance Project Manager, you contribute to innovation while growing your expertise in a global technology leader.
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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What We Do
ASML is a high-tech company, headquartered in the Netherlands. We manufacture the complex lithography machines that chipmakers use to produce integrated circuits, or computer chips. Over 30 years, we have grown from a small startup into a multinational company with over 60 locations across Europe, Asia and the US. Behind ASML’s innovations are engineers who think ahead. The people who work at our company include some of the most creative minds in physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, chemistry, mechatronics, optics, mechanical engineering, computer science and software engineering. Because ASML spends more than €2 billion per year on R&D, our teams have the freedom, support and resources to experiment, test and push the boundaries of technology. They work in close-knit, multidisciplinary teams, listening to and learning from each other.
