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East FlandersHybrid40 hours/week6-12months
A Belgian family group with international operations, active in polymers, fibers, technical textiles, and floor coverings, is looking for a controller.
- The assignment is for a division with two production sites.
- You will take over costing and monthly closing during a colleague's maternity leave.
- There will be a handover with the colleague until the end of December.
- Afterwards, you will independently manage the monthly cycle, together with the divisional controller.
- You will work in a small team: you and the divisional controller.
- Invoicing and accounting are handled by the central finance department, allowing you to focus entirely on controlling.
- Daily contact with production department heads and sales managers.
What you do
- Each month, you will calculate the cost prices for both plants and close the production side of the month.
- Perform monthly costing based on new raw material prices.
- Make ad-hoc cost price calculations.
- During the monthly closing (first working week):
- Analyze goods movements (purchase, production, scrap, and corrections).
- Prepare and finalize production bookings.
- Analyze material, labor, and utility variances against the standard.
- Investigate cost centers and origins of variances.
- Discuss these variances with production department heads and contribute to improvement ideas.
- Monitor production margins daily and weekly.
- Analyze volume, turnover, product mix, and contribution against budget and previous year.
- Approximately 10% of your time will be dedicated to commercial controlling:
- Keep the pricing tool up to date.
- Support sales managers with their price calculations.
- Support the divisional controller with forecasts and budget.
What they ask
- Several years of experience as a controller in a production environment.
- Knowledge of how raw materials, energy, labor, and volume influence cost price.
- Experience with variance analysis down to the root cause.
- Enjoy performing your own analyses and working independently after handover.
- Experience with SAP (financial).
- Experience with Power BI or Cognos is a plus.
- Degree in Applied Economic Sciences, Commercial Sciences, or Economics, or an equivalent level through experience.
- Excellent Dutch and fluent English (the sales director is English-speaking).
- Knowledge of the production process itself is not required and will be learned on-site.
Technologies used.
- SAP (financial)
- Ritm (operational)
- Cognos Analytics
- Power BI
Practical
- Open office environment with 50 to 60 colleagues.
- Workdays of 8 hours, starting between 8 AM and 9 AM and working until at least 4:30 PM.
- The company is closed between Christmas and New Year.
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