Finance Officer Intern

Becquerel Institute; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 11,000 - 14,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Visible impact

Direct coaching

Global view

Intellectual growth

Multicultural team

Flexible hours

International mobility

Long-term opportunity

Job summary

Becquerel Institute in Brussels seeks an intern to help shape a new finance organisation across Belgium, France, Italy and Spain. You will co-supervise with the COO and CEO and gain hands-on exposure to multi-entity finance workflows.

You will document current processes, draft target processes built around Odoo, develop templates, and assist rollout including user guides and quick wins, while learning about reporting and automation.

Qualifications

• Currently completing a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in finance, accounting, management or business engineering.
• Taste for processes and tools, ability to bring structure to complex flows.
• Strong Excel skills; knowledge of Odoo, Power Query/Power BI or Python is an asset.
• Fluent in English, other European languages (French/Italian/Spanish) are assets.
• Organisational and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Rigorous, curious and confident talking to people at all levels.
• Fast learner who can work autonomously while being a team player.
• Sense of humour appreciated.

Responsibilities

• Map how we work today across four entities and interview users to identify pain points.
• Draft the target processes built around Odoo and create a finance calendar.
• Build first templates such as cash forecast and monthly reporting pack.
• Integrate research project tracking into finance flows and automate where possible.
• Support the roll-out with user guides and quick wins; assist colleagues during rollout.

Skills

Process mapping

Excel

Odoo

Power Query

Power BI

Python

English fluency

Other EU languages

Education

Master’s degree in progress

Tools

Odoo

Power BI

Job description

We are setting up a new finance organisation for our group of four entities (Belgium, France, Italy and Spain), and we are looking for an intern to help us shape it. Co-supervised by our COO and CEO, you will learn how a multi-entity group runs its finance while making a real contribution to it.

Availability: ASAP

Duration: 6 months

Location: Brussels

Main missions:

• Map how we work today : Document how finance and administration run across our four entities (invoicing, payments, monthly close, cash follow-up, timesheets and research cost reporting), and interview the users to identify pain points, manual steps and duplicates.
• Draft the target processes : Propose the future processes, built around Odoo, and a finance calendar for the group, for validation by management.
• Build first templates : For example, a cash forecast and a monthly reporting pack.
• Integrate the research project tracking : Our tracking of EU research projects is in place and works well; help integrate it better into our finance flows and automate it.
• Support the roll‑out : Starting with a pilot in Belgium, write user guides, help colleagues get started with the new processes and implement one or two automation quick wins.

Profile:

• Currently completing a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in finance, accounting, management or business engineering.
• A taste for processes and tools, and the ability to bring structure to complex flows.
• Strong Excel skills; Odoo, Power Query/Power BI or Python (or another object-oriented language) are assets.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken. French, Italian or Spanish is an asset.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills, with attention to detail.
• Rigorous and curious, confident talking to people at all levels.
• Fast learner with the ability to work autonomously while demonstrating strong team spirit.
• A good sense of humour is always appreciated!

What Becquerel Institute offers:

• A real project with visible impact : Your work will feed directly into how the group organises its finance.
• Direct coaching : Co-supervision by our COO and CEO, with a weekly follow‑up point.
• A view of the whole company : Understand how a consulting and research firm runs, across four countries and all its functions.
• An intellectually stimulating experience : Join a team where curiosity, critical thinking, and innovation are valued, and where learning is part of everyday work.
• A multicultural, dynamic team : Be part of a close‑knit group of passionate professionals from diverse backgrounds.
• Flexible working conditions : Enjoy flexible hours and regular opportunities to work from home.
• International mobility : Possibility to spend time in our offices in France, Spain, or Italy to work with the local teams.
• A potential long‑term opportunity : The internship can lead to the Finance Officer position.

Contract

The proposed contract is a “Convention d’immersion professionnelle“ and foresees a monthly reimbursement for expenses on a standard basis (1.116,90 EUR based on the 2026 rate). We also offer daily meal vouchers (10€ per worked day) and can cover local transportation cost (STIB).

Applicants with a scholarship, working on a thesis related to finance processes, controlling or digitalisation, are welcome to apply.