Project Cost Controller Wallonia

Jan De Nul Group; Oost-Vlaanderen; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

Group and hospitalization insurance

Flexible working hours

42 paid vacation days

Job summary

Jan De Nul Group seeks a Project Cost Controller to operate from on-site offices in Wallonia, Belgium. You will manage budgets, costs and forecasts, serving as the financial point of contact for the site team and ensuring data accuracy while aligning with project goals.

You will travel to sites, collaborate with project managers, and deliver timely financial insights. Fluency in French, Dutch and English is required; a background in economics or accountancy supports the role.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in economics or similar.
• Experience in controlling, accounting, audit or civil projects is a plus.
• Strong analytical and numerical accuracy; high attention to figures.
• Independent work, plus close collaboration with site and project management.
• Fluency in French, Dutch and English is required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare budget control and financial reporting for sites with sharp forecasts.
• Jointly follow up all costs and revenues of the project and prepare reports.
• Ensure monthly figure accuracy and adjust where necessary.
• Report regularly to management to enable timely financial decisions.
• Provide site managers with insight into financial results and assist with issues.
• Stay up to date with controlling developments and elevate processes.

Skills

French language proficiency

Dutch language proficiency

English language proficiency

Analytical thinking

On-site collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in economics

Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy

Job description

Your Work Context

For this position good knowledge of the French language is a prerequisite. Jan De Nul Group focuses on complex projects and offers clients, private or public, a total customized package. This approach, plus the technical expertise and years of experience, ensures that we, also for civil works, belong to the absolute top. Are you (almost) graduated in accountancy or an economic field and do you want to make a solid start in project controlling? As a Project Cost Controller on our sites in Wallonia, you receive responsibility and trust from day one within a stable and substantively strong role. You build expertise at the heart of our projects and make a real impact on site.

Your Role

A job at the crossroads of finance and site reality. As a Project Cost Controller, you work from your office on site and closely follow up the financial processes, right in the middle of the project. You are often on the road and present on site, which ensures a lot of variety and a job full of action. You are the financial point of contact on site: colleagues rely on you for financial questions and decisions. You dive deep into budgets, costs and forecasts, identify deviations and clearly map risks and opportunities. You work independently, but at the same time you are a fixed link within the site team and see the impact of your work every day.

Your main tasks and responsibilities

• You prepare the budget control and financial reporting for your sites and draw up sharp forecasts, including updates of the order portfolio.


• You are jointly responsible for the follow-up of all costs and revenues of the assigned project and prepare reports of the results.


• You take responsibility for the correctness of the figures on a monthly basis and adjust where necessary.


• You report at regular intervals and in a structured and objective manner to management/the executive board, so that timely adjustments can be made to achieve the financial and strategic objectives.


• You provide project managers and site managers with insight into the (current and future) financial results of the project/department and support them when financial issues arise.


• You stay up to date with developments within controlling, keep your knowledge up to date and think along with the team to take controlling to a higher level.

What you need

You have a master’s degree in an economic field (Applied Economics, Commercial Engineer, Business Sciences) or a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy. Experience in controlling, accounting, audit or civil projects is a nice plus, but motivated starters are also certainly welcome. You are analytically strong, work accurately and get enthusiastic about correct figures. You take responsibility independently, but at the same time work smoothly together with site and project management as a fixed link within the site team. You like a job full of action and variety and can express yourself professionally in French, Dutch and English. You start on sites in Wallonia, where you quickly build experience at the heart of our projects.

Working at Jan De Nul

Working at Jan De Nul means helping to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: from energy transition to rising sea levels to smart mobility. It means learning and working together every day, with the aim of ensuring the global quality of life for generations to come.

What We Offer

You work from our sites in Wallonia, build new expertise with each project and can count on an attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits.

• Through the JDN Academy, we offer you an ongoing training path.


• Through our FIT program, we watch over your well-being with attention to exercise, nutrition and various team activities.


• A healthy work-life balance (flexible working hours and occasional work from home).


• An open-ended contract with 42 paid vacations (20 statutory, 12 ADV and 10 public holidays).


• An attractive salary with thirteenth month and double vacation pay included:
  
  
  
  • Meal vouchers and eco vouchers.
  
  
  • Possibility to participate in the Flex Reward program including bicycle and car leasing including fuel card in Belgium.
  
  
  • Intervention of public transport and bicycle allowance.
  
  
  • Group and hospitalization insurance.
  
  
  • Option of iPhone with telephony and data subscription (subject to contribution).
  
  
  • Various staff discounts.
  
  
  
  


• You are part of an international growing family business where connect, respect, challenge and focus are key.


• Applicable with a Belgian contract.

The world becomes what you make of it

Jan De Nul is shaping water and land around the world. We drive the transition to renewable energy with offshore energy infrastructure. We focus on nature-inclusive dredging solutions to build ports and protect our coastline. We develop innovative construction projects for smart mobility and sustainable buildings. And we redevelop our planet by giving polluted sites a new purpose. At Jan De Nul, the world becomes what you make of it.

Jan De Nul Group promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and against discrimination.

Referenced Team

Financial Services

Construction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Keywords

Controller, Cost Controller, Finance, Accountancy