Group Controller

Are you looking for a new challenging role in an international environment? Do you have strong analytical insight and experience with financial planning and analysis? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you

Join Us asGroup Controller in the corporate planning team at Daikin EMEA HQ;

The Department

The Corporate Planning department, located in Brussels, coordinates the budget-making and execution for Daikin in the entire EMEA region (turnover of approx. of 5 billion EUR).

The department is responsible for drilling down the strategy into annual budgets and realizing the group targets. This is done in cooperation with all sales and manufacturing entities, as well as with other headquarter departments. As a backbone for group-wide reporting, the department takes care of the management of the sales-, margin-, and pricing data, as well as collecting and reporting market intelligence.

Our mission is to safeguard and manage profitability, via periodic reporting to top-management, close follow-up and by proposing countermeasure actions.

Furthermore, the department is responsible for the development and implementation of corporate governance and internal controls in the group (e.g. J-SOx and system access).

Finally, we also take on any project that is considered priority by top-management.

Your function:

As a Group Controller you will join the Group controlling section, a multicultural team based in Brussels responsible for the Profit and Loss of the activities in the EMEA region. Together with local colleagues, experienced managers, and planners across different countries you will be striving to further improve the controlling and planning processes and profitability of the group. In doing so you will contribute to realise the growth of Daikin driven by the shift to environmental friendly Heat Pumps and technologies.

In particular you will:

• You will be actively involved in the budgeting and result follow-up of the Group
• You will work in cooperation with the sales affiliates, factories of the Daikin Europe Group and also HQ departments (eg Sales Business Units, Supply, R&D planning, HR planning)
• You will prepare management reporting and ad-hoc analyses to be presented to DENV Top Management and Daikin Japan Headquarters
• You will prepare Budget consolidation
• You will critically think along with the company and initiate and support decisions in line with the long term Strategy
• Finally, you will be involved in projects of different nature that are inherent to a diverse multinational company (eg roll-out of Planning tool, profitability per business segment, headcount classification, set-up automated reporting, Operational efficiency, transfer pricing topics/Sales flows, …)
• You will be located in Brussels supplemented by a homework policy

Your profile

• You have a Master's degree
• You have 3 years of relevant professional experience
• Your work is accurate and you can dig into details without losing the helicopter view
• You possess excellent analytical skills and demonstrate good communication skills
• You are result-driven with a strong focus on improvements
• You have an excellent knowledge of English, knowledge of other EU languages are an asset.
• Knowledge of MS office is a must, Anaplan (or other planning tools) and PowerBI are an asset

Job description:

Are you looking for a new challenging role in an international environment? Do you have strong analytical insight and experience with financial planning and analysis? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you

Join Us asGroup Controller in the corporate planning team at Daikin EMEA HQ;

The Department

The Corporate Planning department, located in Brussels, coordinates the budget-making and execution for Daikin in the entire EMEA region (turnover of approx. of 5 billion EUR).

The department is responsible for drilling down the strategy into annual budgets and realizing the group targets. This is done in cooperation with all sales and manufacturing entities, as well as with other headquarter departments. As a backbone for group-wide reporting, the department takes care of the management of the sales-, margin-, and pricing data, as well as collecting and reporting market intelligence.

Our mission is to safeguard and manage profitability, via periodic reporting to top-management, close follow-up and by proposing countermeasure actions.

Furthermore, the department is responsible for the development and implementation of corporate governance and internal controls in the group (e.g. J-SOx and system access).

Finally, we also take on any project that is considered priority by top-management.

Your function:

As a Group Controller you will join the