Business Controller - EN - Brussels

Jobat; West-Vlaanderen; On-site; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobat is seeking a finance professional to support management accounting and cost allocation processes in a global energy sector context. The role focuses on maintaining SAP CO cycles, validating allocations, and producing insightful management reports.

The ideal candidate will have strong Excel skills, experience with SAP and a clear grasp of cost drivers, with the ability to explain variances to senior management. Collaboration across departments is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP CO and allocation cycles.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills for cost accounting.
• Ability to design and maintain management reports using Excel.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, execute, and troubleshoot cost allocation cycles across cost centres, activities, departments, products and other dimensions.
• Support design and application of analytical accounting principles, cost-centre structures and allocation methodologies.
• Analyze direct vs indirect costs and validate allocation keys for consistency and transparency.
• Develop and maintain management reports; compare actual results to budget and forecast; explain variances.
• Consolidate, review, and validate large data sets; reconcile SAP data with management reporting and accounting records.
• Build and maintain reporting tools using advanced Excel techniques (PivotTables, lookups).
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate reporting and allocation processes while strengthening controls and documentation.
• Prepare clear financial analyses and ad hoc reports for management.

Skills

SAP CO

Cost allocation

Management accounting

Cost analysis

Data reconciliation

Excel modelling

Reporting

Process improvement

Management support

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

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

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.