Financial Controller

As a Junior Financial Controller you will be responsible for the company’s day to day financial activities and business processes.  You will join a dynamic and enthusiastic finance team and report directly to the Chief Financial Officer.

Are you passionate about financial analysis and do you like to solve problems?
Can you work autonomously and do you always strive for high-detailed work?
Are you looking forward to finding opportunities to improve our financial processes?

If you mostly answered positively to the above questions, you should definitely keep on reading. You might be the next talent who will contribute to the future success story of LolaLiza!

As a Junior Financial Controller you will be in charge of the following tasks:

• Analyzing and preparing financial statements, including profit-and-loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements and statements of financial position
• Performing ad hoc reporting and analysis and investigative issues

• Assisting in monthly closing through the elaboration of periodic control list and variance analyses (actual/budget)

• Assisting with budgeting
• Examining all financial reports and data closely to check for discrepancies
• Creating systems to prevent errors in data collection and calculations
• Reporting to the chief financial officer with timely and accurate financial information
• Assisting the chief financial officer in presenting reports.
• Support to the departments you will be responsible for and look for opportunities and ways for improvement in the financial processes

• Monitoring of all aspects of revenue and cost for the departments (incl. stores) and business processes you are in charge of by:
• analyzing procedures and identify/quantify main risks such as fraud/theft/assets protection,…
• performing controls and implement corrective action plans that you proposed and designed, either internally (new procedures,…) or with external support (theft prevention, stock-counting,…)
• establishing a planning to make sure all risk areas are covered and controlled on a regular basis

• Being key contact for the stores regarding financial and process aspects (incl. cash reconciliation, contact with banks, controls,…)

Qualifications

• Master in Finance or Economics
• Experience in Auditing (Big Four - min. 2 years) (knowledge of the retail sector is a plus)
• You have a good knowledge of BE GAAP (knowledge of LU GAAP, FR GAAP is a plus)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to analyze and solve problems

• Innovative thinking: bring creative but practical suggestions and recommendations

• Ability to interact with colleagues at all levels throughout the company
• Ability to perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks
• Ability to work under pressure and intensive deadlines
• Ability to work in a self-directed manner
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Word skills

• Experience with Business Intelligence or other data analysis tools would be considered as an additional asset
• Fluent in French or Dutch with good knowledge of the second language
• Good knowledge of English

As you develop in your role, you will be given more demanding and more complex tasks. The more the company grows, the more the work will be controller focused.