Head of Cost Controlling

Job Description

Are you an ambitious, experienced finance professional who combines strong analytical expertise with inspiring people leadership? Are you ready to take ownership, review the results critically and not afraid to deep-dive into details?

About the Role:

For our Belgium Luxembourg Business Unit, we are currently looking for a Cost Control Manager. The Finance Department of Belgium Luxembourg is responsible for monitoring and managing the financial performance of approximately 100 construction projects, representing a total annual revenue of around €500 million.

You will join a diverse team of both junior and senior cost controllers, each bringing complementary expertise and strengths. The team operates in a highly collaborative and self-sufficient manner, with knowledge sharing and continuous learning being core values. Peer reviews and constructive challenges are an integral part of the team's way of working, fostering both personal development and the quality of our financial reporting.

Your Responsibilities:

Team leadership 

• Leading a growing team of approximately 12 Cost Controllers
• Directly managing approximately five team members
• Drive continuous improvement within the team by strengthening knowledge sharing, peer review practices and collaboration
• Ensuring consistent cost-control standards across the business unit
• Coaching team members and supporting their professional development

Consolidation and financial reporting

• Own the consolidation of project results across BELUX, ensuring that forecasts, actuals and reported economic results are complete, coherent and reconciled with the accounting records in accordance with IFRS. All details must be correct.
• Cooperate pro-actively with the accountants, especially during the monthly closing processes.
• Respect deadlines to report results and analyses to the Finance Director of Belgium Luxemburg on due time.
• Pro-actively build up the monthly reports and start collecting the info from several stakeholders.

Project cost control

• During your onboarding period, you will take end-to-end responsibility for the cost control of one construction project. This hands-on involvement will enable you to understand the operational processes, reporting requirements and challenges faced by the Cost Controllers you will lead.
• This includes forecasting, actual-cost follow-up, cash-flow planning, ageing analysis and coordination with the Project Manager and technical operational teams on site.
• You are responsible for reporting checked and coherent figures, to keep the economic result of the project completely in line with the bookkeeping following IFRS standards.

Process improvement and business partnering

• You prepare studies all over the projects of Belgium Luxembourg and are able to communicate a structured conclusion with a proposition of possible action points.

Qualifications

We can offer you a challenging job in the exciting world of construction!

• A strategic leadership position within the BELUX Finance organisation
• Responsibility for a varied portfolio of major construction projects
• The opportunity to shape cost-controlling standards and processes
• Close collaboration with operational and senior-management stakeholders
• A diverse team with strong expertise and a collaborative culture

Your qualifications:

• Master’s degree in finance, economics, business administration or a related field
• At least ten years of relevant professional experience, including five years in cost control, project controlling or a comparable role
• Proven experience leading and developing finance professionals
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex financial information into clear business recommendations
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency with financial reporting tools
• Fluent in Dutch, French and English
• Willingness to visit construction sites across Belgium and Luxembourg
• Coaching and team development
• Pro-active Stakeholder management with good communication skills
• Constructive challenge and sound judgement
• Ability to influence Project Managers and senior leaders
• Capacity to prioritise across multiple projects and deadlines
• Continuous-improvement mindset

Additional Information

A career at BESIX is a lot more than just a job, it's about being part of our changing and innovative world. Your skills, ambition and passion will contribute to the development of our different businesses and allow us to succeed in the challenges of the coming years.

Working for the BESIX group allows you to be a part of a dynamic, creative and entrepreneurial company. It gives you a safe and collaborative working environment with ambitious and innovative goals for the world of tomorrow, but also for your career and personal development.

We are looking for different kinds of personalities, mindsets, backgrounds and genders to build the iconic and sustainable projects of tomorrow.

In line with its behavior of “Be Inclusive”, BESIX intends to accommodate for any reasonable accommodation (non-disproportionate burden), tangible or intangible, that would neutralize the limiting influence of an inappropriate environment on the participation of a person with a disability. Talk to your recruiter when applying.

Are you ready to make an impact and leave a positive legacy for years to come? If you are passionate about our purpose: “We take on today’s boldest challenges to build a lasting legacy”, come and join our caring BESIX family. Together we will co-create our future.

Working at BESIX brings a lot of great benefits including:  

• An attractive remuneration package including a salary in line with the market and a range of employee benefits such as flexible mobility advantages, extra-legal pension, medical care insurance, work-life balance program (such as teleworking, flexible work schedule, mobile working), Health Management (sport, health check-up program, …);
• Career development programs that serve not only to ensure that you are constantly learning and improving but also that give you the possibility to expand your career horizon;
• A dynamic, creative and safe working environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavors (ideas, projects, goals, ambitions);
• Possibility to work on complex projects within both a local and international environment;
• The choice to remain locally anchored for the coming years or to seek an exciting international career opportunity within the group.