Engineering & Supply Chain Business Controller

IBA Worldwide; Town of Belgium (WI); On-site; USD 81,395 - 104,651; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering and supply chain leader is seeking an Engineering & Supply Chain Business Controller to provide critical financial insights. The role involves financial reporting, budgeting, inventory management, and compliance improvement. Candidates should possess a master’s degree and have at least 5 years of relevant experience, with proficiency in SAP and strong communication skills in both English and French.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience in controlling or auditing, ideally in a supply chain or project environment.
• Excellent command of English and French.

Responsibilities

• Support financial closing processes and analyze actuals vs. budget.
• Consolidate and challenge financial data for budgeting and long-term financial planning.
• Promote inventory accountability and monitor CapEx.
• Drive profitability optimization initiatives across various dimensions.
• Ensure compliance with financial standards and identify process improvements.
• Act as SAP process owner and provide guidance to team.

Skills

Financial reporting and analysis

Budgeting and forecasting

Inventory management

SAP proficiency

Communication skills

Education

Master’s degree in Economics, Management or Commercial/Project Engineering

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Engineering & Supply Chain Business Controller

Requisition ID: 3023

Location: Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Region: BE

Work regime: Full-Time

Kind of contract: Open Ended Contract

Mission

As our Engineering & Supply Chain (E&SC) Business Controller, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our E&SC operations by providing critical financial insights and guidance. You will collect, analyze, and interpret financial data related to procurement, production, inventory, and reverse logistics. You will provide comprehensive financial information and KPIs to make informed decisions at the level of the E&SC Leadership Team as a true business partner.

Challenges we trust you with

• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Support financial closing processes, analyze actuals vs. budget, prepare reporting, track KPIs, advise the ESC Leadership Team.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Consolidate and challenge financial data to build the budget and the long term financial & strategic plan, identify and manage related risks & opportunities.
• Inventory & CapEx Management: Promote inventory accountability, track stock obsolescence and reverse logistics operations, monitor CapEx.
• Business Support & Optimization: Drive costs/profitability optimization initiatives across multiple dimensions, including: product and project costing, production variances, production overheads…
• Process Improvement & Compliance: Ensure compliance with standards and governance, identify process improvements opportunities.
• SAP process owner: Provide guidance, support and training as SAP business process owner.

What we value

• A master’s degree in Economics, Management or Commercial/Project Engineering;
• At least 5 years of relevant experience (in controlling, audit…), ideally in a supply chain or project environment
• A very good command of SAP (Power BI is a strong plus)
• Excellent communication skills both in English and in French

And you also are

• Proactive, assertive, and pragmatic
• Business-oriented and detail-focused, with a big-picture perspective
• A strong communicator and team player
• Autonomous, flexible, and able to prioritize and organize work independently
• Digitally savvy