Financial controller (temporary)

This role is part of a dynamic and committed team of financial controllers who possess a passion for data and crunching numbers.

The team’s purpose is to provide visibility on the company financial health and improve its profitability. The team members partner with business leaders to develop financial strategies that support the company's goals and objectives.

The role consists of : financial reporting, tool building, insightful analysis, cost controls, and budget planning (medium and long-term). The team also ensures the respect of rules in finance and drives the improvement of financial processes.

The selected candidate will work closely with the other teams in Finance and other departments (HR, Technical, Sales, Customer Care …) and will cover the areas of Opex, Capex and working capital management. The company operates in three activities : Consumer Telecommunication, Enterprise Telecommunication, and Enterprise ICT.

As a financial controller, the person will handle sensitive financial information, and produce data-driven recommendations to senior management and operations.

Monthly closing activities :

• Provide monthly Opex reporting and analysis. Assist Accounting team on provision calculation, and analytical verification. Ensure that business owners remain in their validated budget, update financial models to identify drivers of variances.
• Provide monthly Capex reporting. Follow-up remaining orders. Ensuring project approval and track project progress.
• Provide monthly working capital analysis and suggest actions to be taken to meet Group target. Highlight risks and opportunities compared to Budget. Follow-up KPIs and alert management of potential deviations. Work closely with Accounting to land on cash targets.
• Financial planning : end-of-year landing, monthly rolling forecasts, annual budgeting, and multiple-year plan exercise in line with executive vision and strategy, and in collaboration with business leaders (organisation of workshops)
• Consolidate the company P&L for all three activities. Participate in the performance management of the Telecommunication activities (Consumer and Enterprise)
• Automation of reporting : data quality improvement, transformation and simplification of excel-based dashboards
• Preparation of documents for the Proximus Luxembourg Management Committee, the Board of directors, and other relevant analysis for the Shareholders

Profile :

The candidate should be highly educated (Bac +5 or equivalent to a Master level) with a strong command of French/English written and spoken. Her/his resume should exhibit great capabilities in financial data analysis and controlling (5+ years experience).

The candidate should enjoy working in a high-paced environment and in a complex organisation.

Required knowledge and skills:

• Great listening and communication skills
• Can-do attitude and self-motivated
• Strong interpersonal skills to get teams from different department to work together
• Proven ability to manage projects, change, and automation initiatives
• Analytical, data-driven and rigorous
• Proficient in Excel (pivot tables, look-up)
• Multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment, and result focused
• Expert knowledge in finance and data analytics