Business Controller - EN - Brussels

About the company

Our client is an international organization active in the energy sector.

Your tasks

Jobomschrijving

• SAP CO and allocation cycles: Maintain, execute, review and troubleshoot cost allocation cycles, including assessments and distributions across cost centres, activities, departments, products and other relevant dimensions.
• Management accounting: Support the design and consistent application of analytical accounting principles, cost-centre structures, cost-driver logic and allocation methodologies.
• Direct and indirect costs: Analyse cost flows, distinguish direct from indirect costs, validate allocation keys and ensure that costs are assigned consistently and transparently.
• Reporting and analysis: Develop and maintain management reports; analyse actual results against budget, forecast and prior periods; investigate and explain significant variances.
• Data quality and reconciliation: Consolidate, review and validate large volumes of financial and operational data; perform reconciliations between SAP, management reporting and accounting records.
• Excel-based modelling: Build and maintain efficient reporting tools and analyses using advanced formulas, PivotTables, lookups and structured datasets.
• Process improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate reporting and allocation processes while strengthening controls and documentation.
• Management support: Prepare clear financial analyses and ad hoc reports for management and support stakeholders in understanding cost drivers and allocation outcomes.
• Professional experience: Relevant hands-on experience in controlling, management accounting, cost accounting or financial reporting, preferably within a complex international organization.
• Analytical accounting: A sound understanding of management accounting and cost-allocation concepts, or demonstrable experience and readiness to quickly deepen expertise in these areas.
• Excel: Advanced command of Microsoft Excel, especially PivotTables, formulas, lookups, data validation and analysis of large datasets. This is an essential requirement.
• Power BI: Experience with Power BI is a plus and will be positively valued.

Requirements

Analytical mindset: Ability to understand and challenge complex cost flows, allocation keys and reporting logic, with strong attention to detail and data consistency.

• Ways of working: Structured, accurate, autonomous and pragmatic, with the ability to collaborate effectively across Finance and operational functions.
• Industry background: Experience in a company with manufacturing or production operations is a strong advantage, particularly in an industrial, energy, chemical or petrochemical environment.
• Languages: Fluent English is required. French, Dutch or Italian would be an asset.