Are you curious, eager to learn and you have a passion for Finance? Then the Boskalis Finance Traineeship might be the perfect place to make your mark as a finance trainee! Working in project controlling gives you the opportunity to get involved in international Dredging and Offshore Energy projects within Boskalis. An unique opportunity to get acquainted with the entire Boskalis organization and a perfect kick-start to your career as a Project Controller within our company.
What you will be doing
As a finance trainee you will be part of the project team for a Dredging or Offshore Energy project, and this often means working in challenging conditions. The projects you work on will vary in size, complexity, and duration and your workplace will depend on the project itself.
During your assignments you will get acquainted with the Way of Working within Boskalis, work in a dynamic and challenging environment and operate in a project team that contributes to our impressive projects. These assignments will be the ultimate preparation into your development as a project controller.
Dredging
Working within the Dredging division will imply that you are working at our project locations in various countries all around the world. During the traineeship you will therefore have one or two international assignments. An assignment abroad will cover a period of 6 months, in which you will be working on a project location for six weeks at a stretch, after which you get four weeks of leave to go home. During these assignments you will be guided by a more senior project and/or regional controller.
Offshore Energy
In the Offshore Energy division, you will be working on offshore energy projects for a period of 6 months from our head office in Papendrecht or from one of the Offshore Energy offices outside the Netherlands. You will be part of a multidisciplinary project team and working in close collaboration with a senior project controller and other members of the team. The execution of the offshore energy projects is in different countries in the world. This gives you the possibility to travel to the project site office.
Your responsibilities
As a finance trainee you assist the project manager (and senior project controller) on all financial matters within a project. This means that you:
The Program
Next to learning on the job during your assignments, we offer an extensive personal development program in between your assignments. You will be able to set personal development goals as well as to follow training and courses where you can work on your leadership style, communication, and stakeholder management. Next to personal and leadership development we find it important to give you the opportunity to become a better professional: specific, mainly internal, finance courses are added to the program (for example how to deal with international taxation and hedging of foreign currencies). You will get introduced to various departments like treasury, insurance, group reporting and others. On top of that you will visit specific company locations, like projects of the various disciplines you are not assigned to, yards where ships are docked, or sites where our equipment is stored and maintained. External trainers and coaches and a Boskalis mentor are there to guide you.
Your qualities
This is what you need to make your mark as a finance trainee:
What you can expect
Extra information
We are more than happy to answer your questions about the Finance Traineeship. Please contact Robert Smits, Senior Corporate Recruiter +31(0)78-6968398.
Please apply before April 19, 2026.
Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies
We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.