Financial Controller

For our client, we are looking for a Financial Controller (m/f/x).

Our client is a biotech company with lot of development projects. The company is located in Liège.

In your role, your responsibilities are:

• Financial reporting / fiscal aspects:
• Review annual and quarter accounting closing performed by the Accounting team and assist them in their task, especially with the evaluation of certain complex manual journal entries.
• Review consolidated (BEGAAP) reporting, and accurate presentation of the situation to the Senior Finance Manager, including comments on important variation and balances
• Issue monthly reporting, presentation of the situation to the Senior Finance Manager, including comments on important variation and balances
• Issue quarterly reporting towards Shareholders
• Participate in the Budget making and monitoring

• Management of the grants :
• Assist Senior Finance Manager in the issuance of annual declaration of costs to the Walloon Region related to subsidized programs and fill in financial information in activity reports
• Participate to timely follow-up of remaining budget
• Participate in replies to the requests of the Walloon Region with respect to the declaration of costs

• Internal controls :
• Referent person for the management of the internal controls, i.e. ensure proper execution of the designed internal controls
• Proactively suggest improvement mitigation plans for potential gaps, including strong ERP understanding

• IPO preparation:
• With the help of partners (auditors), participate in the conversion of the company accounts to IFRS
• With the help of partners (auditors), design (materialized by a control matrix) and implement internal controls related to financial statements (ICFR = Internal Controls over Financial Reporting) in view of complying with K-SOX regulation

• IFRS Financial Statements :
• Compute the consolidated IFRS adjustments on periodic basis and assist Senior Finance Manager in making annual and other periodic reporting and disclosures

• Cross-sectional tasks :
• Ensure proper filing of the documents on the shared drive and improve structure of the drive if needed
• Provide assistance to Senior Finance Manager and CFO (i.e. specific requests,…)
• Provide support and training when necessary to the Accounting team
• Perform required internal controls related to the function

Your profile

• You have 4/5 years experience in audit and/or in controlling with a good level in English
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Rigorous and organized
• Resilient & stress resistant
• Autonomous and flexible
• Pragmatic & ability to synthetize information
• Excellent communication skills
• Team spirit and coaching skills

Interested? Apply today!

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