Head of Finance

ACE Belgium; Rekhoven; Sur place; EUR 110 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ACE Belgium, part of an international engineering group, seeks a Head of Finance to lead financial operations across Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. You will define financial processes, drive reporting, budgeting, cash flow, and governance, while hands-on embedding ERP practices and delivering timely financial visibility to the Board.

The role requires at least 10 years in finance, multi-entity leadership, and fluency in Dutch and English.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of relevant experience in finance and broad financial responsibility.
• Experience working across multiple legal entities; international exposure is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills with a hands-on approach to operational finance.
• Proficiency in Dutch and English; ability to partner with multi-country teams.

Responsabilités

• Act as strategic financial partner across the group’s entities.
• Optimize working capital, cash discipline, and profitability visibility by entity.
• Lead, mentor and develop finance teams in four countries.
• Strengthen governance, compliance and risk management.
• Embed ERP processes and deliver timely financial visibility to the Board.

Connaissances

Strategic finance leadership

Analytical thinking

Cross-country collaboration

Financial planning & budgeting

People management

Commercial awareness

Dutch & English proficiency

Outils

AFAS

Description du poste

ABOUT ACE

ACE, founded in 1977, is an international engineering group, with more than 200 people and with operations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. We combine engineering, consultancy, (prototype) machine building and product development, working with customers across a range of industrial sectors.

THE ROLE

As Head of Finance, you will have overall financial responsibility for ACE in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. You will define the financial processes, reporting principles and controls across the group and further align financial operations across the different countries.

You will shape the financial architecture of the group on reporting, accounting, tax, budgeting, cashflow management and business performance analysis.

You will take a hands‑on approach, further embed the accounting processes within the ERP system and deliver timely and reliable financial visibility of the business to the Board and management of the group.

As a member of the Management Team, you will bring financial insight to operational and strategic decision‑making in support of the growth of the group.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a strategic financial partner, providing clear insight on performance, growth initiatives and value creation across the different countries and entities.
• Optimise working capital and cash discipline (invoicing, billing, cash conversion, WIP/inventory).
• Enhance visibility into profitability by customer, project, service line, country and legal entity.
• Lead, mentor and develop the finance teams, creating a high‑performance culture focused on accountability and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen and safeguard compliance, governance and risk management across the group.

You will directly manage the finance teams in Lummen (BE), Bruges (BE), Eindhoven (NL) and Poznan (PL) and work directly with the branch manager in Porto (PT). You will report directly to the member of the Board at group level.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• At least 10 years of relevant experience in finance, including experience with broad financial responsibility.
• Experience working across multiple legal entities. International experience is an advantage.
• Broad financial expertise covering accounting, controlling, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and cash flow.
• Experience leading and developing finance professionals.
• Strong analytical skills combined with a hands‑on approach and the willingness to take on operational financial matters yourself.
• Experience structuring and improving financial processes in a multi‑entity environment.
• Experience in an industrial, engineering or project‑driven environment is preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems; knowledge of AFAS is an advantage.
• Full professional proficiency in Dutch and English.

WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE INTERESTING?

You will take on a broad financial mandate across four countries, with direct involvement in the management and decision‑making of the group. The role gives you the opportunity to further shape the finance organisation, bring greater consistency across the different entities and have a visible impact on the further development of the group.