The Dutch Connections

The Dutch Connections is an executive search and interim management bureau and a specialist in senior finance professionals for board and management positions. It was founded by Thomas Koops, who describes the business as a niche kantoor that has been successful for many years in placing senior finance professionals, both permanent and interim, with larger profit and not-for-profit organisations. He says he draws energy and satisfaction from searching out and placing highly qualified and ambitious senior finance people with those clients. The firm has more than 20 years of experience in the placement of senior finance professionals and holds an extensive and up to date network of them.

The specialisation is finance and nothing else. On the executive search side the firm finds the most suitable senior finance professionals for permanent roles from an annual salary of 100,000 euros upwards. On the interim side it presents available interim senior finance professionals matching the requested profile within a day or a few days of the request, charged on a day or hourly rate. The positions it fills regularly, permanent and interim, include chief financial officer, financieel directeur, group controller, divisie controller, project controller, manager business control, senior business controller, director or manager internal audit, manager internal control, treasury manager, manager FSSC and manager external reporting.

The firm works from Landgoed Zonnestraal at Loosdrechtse Bos 19 in Hilversum and can be reached on +31 35 2340111 or [email protected]. As a specialised business partner it guides clients from the intake of an assignment through to the onboarding of the interim or permanent candidate, and it invites prospective clients to contact it for information or a no obligation appointment. Candidates who are senior finance professionals looking for a new interim assignment or a permanent move can register and send in a CV, after which the firm makes contact to explain what it can do. Many of its assignments are exclusive and confidential and are therefore never published on the website.