Finance Specialist

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Within the Finance Business Partner Department, we are looking for a Finance Specialist for the “Enterprise Telco & Operations (ETO)” and “Enterprise IT (EIT)” Business Units.

**Context**

With a yearly turnover of close to 2 Bn€, the ETO and EIT Business Units is the Market leader in Telco for the Belgian professional sector and an important ICT player in the professional Benelux market.

Our ETO and EIT divisions are organized to best serve our customers in those market, with organization tailored according to product types, customer segments and solution practices.

**Task description**

The main purpose of this job is to take the E2E responsibility, as a partner, in building a clear financial view on major customer and transformational Telco and IT deals and large transformational capex projects. You also play a decisive role in the financial governance to ensure maximisation of future EBU profitability and to monitor the financial performance of those deals in execution. In addition to this, you will support EBU consolidation activities to ensure we provide insight in the results to create impact and increased performance.

As Finance Specialist, you will report to the Finance Manager “Conso & Transformation”.

**Responsibilities**

You take the lead in customer and transformational Telco & IT deals & E2E responsibility in transformational projects:

- You are responsible to represent the finance community in the EBU Bid Approval Process (EBAP) which aims to validate the customer deals and to make sure that the rules and processes are properly respected.
- You analyse the profitability of complex files and make recommendations to maximize shareholder value.
- By using your excellent communication and writing skills, you provide the finance opinion on business cases to be submitted to the EBU Management, the Proximus Leadership Squad and/or to the Board of Directors for approval.
- You work in close collaboration with other Finance or Support departments (Tax, Accounting, Regulatory, Legal, Procurement, Treasury,). You make sure to have a complete view on all elements that could influence your decisions within your responsible area of activities (IFRS compliancy, Regulatory constraints, projects financing, vendor discounts,).
- You work in close partnership with the EBU departments (Sales, Pricing, Squads, Bid team,) to properly understand the business, to challenge the business case assumptions and to come with potential alternatives (financials or solutions oriented).
- You are, as member of the EBU Finance Business Partners team, responsible to communicate and share on a regular and structural way the output of your analyses to help colleagues in their day-to-day activities (eg: Planning, Forecasting, Contract renewals,).
- You keep informed, on a regular base, the EBU FIN Department Lead and the Finance Lead (CFO) on the progress status of important ongoing files (Transformational deals, strategic files, complex bids,).
- You regularly monitor and analyse the governance on customer files approval process, you initiate the best solution after considering all the alternatives in order to formulate and get an agreement on the preferred solution across departments and divisions. Finally, you track corrective actions and optimize these.
- You perform benefit management to measure the actual financial performance of a project compared to the business case assumptions.

You take E2E responsibility in large transformational capex files.
- You provide the finance opinion on business cases to be submitted to the relevant governance i.e. EBU Management, the Proximus Leadership Squad and/or to the Board of Directors for approval.
- You perform benefit management to measure the actual financial performance of a project compared to the business case assumptions.

You support the planning and consolidation of the E2E financial performance cycle of EBU from all different points of view. The performance cycle includes the long
- and short-term financial planning (incl. the Rolling Forecast), controlling activities, financial analysis, business analysis and actionable reporting in order to assist key stake holders in the Enterprise organization to make smart business decisions.

**Your profile**

In order to manage all the above, we are looking for a colleague who:

- can take the E2E ownership of customer deals in an autonomous way;
- has knowledge of the Telco and IT business;
- is well organized and can work with short deadlines;
- is results-oriented, has an analytical mind and can cope with stress;
- is a very good team player with excellent communication skills;
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