Finance Business Partner (Employed or freelance)

📋 Tasks and responsibilities

As Management Controller / Finance Business Partner, you oversee the budget follow-up for several departments within the finance environment. You prepare annual budgets and recurring forecasts, monitor actual performance, and analyse variances between actuals, budgets and forecasts.

You review budget assumptions and requests for additional funding, identify the underlying causes of financial deviations, and present clear explanations of results to management. In close collaboration with senior stakeholders, you gather financial needs, assess business impact, and translate figures into decision-supporting insights.

You work with SAP and analytical objects such as cost centers, profit centers, internal orders and WBS elements to ensure accurate financial monitoring and reporting. You contribute reliable analysis, cost control and financial guidance that support management in steering performance.

You join the Budget & Tariff Controlling team within the finance department, working alongside other controllers and business stakeholders in a context focused on budgeting, forecasting, reporting and business support.

📝 Your profile

• You hold a master's degree in economics, finance or management.
• You bring senior-level experience as a business controller, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and variance analysis.
• You have experience in large organisations and are comfortable interacting with senior management.
• You have a solid understanding of analytical objects and cost allocation structures.
• You have strong expertise in Excel, including VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables, and you work confidently with Microsoft Office.
• You have hands-on experience with SAP. Knowledge of S/4 HANA is an asset.
• Knowledge of the Distribution Grid Operator domain is a plus.
• You combine strong analytical skills with problem-solving ability.
• You are fluent in French or Dutch and have a good command of the other national language.

💼 Offer

You will be part of a growing Belgian SME where initiative and personal development are encouraged. We will provide you with an enjoyable work environment with fun colleagues. We will work out a career plan with you, with attention and a budget for extra education/certification. You can count on an attractive salary, supplemented with extra-legal benefits, including a company car.
(Freelance is also possible)