Group Controller

Job Category: Corporate and Legal Affairs

Location: Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, BE

Job Requisition ID: 2996

Daikin Europe NV (DENV) is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries Limited, a Japanese outstanding company and worldwide the biggest developer, producer and supplier of HVAC-R (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration) solutions, including heating pumps and cooling technology.

DENV is Daikin’s sales, R&D, and production headquarters for Europe, the Middle‑East and Africa. The headquarter has Belgian offices in Brussels, Ghent and Ostend, as well as 8 production plants, 24 sales subsidiaries and offices and a whole network of independent distributors and dealers across the EMEA region.

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 as Group 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 approximately 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:

• be actively involved in the budgeting and result follow‑up of the Group
• 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)
• prepare management reporting and ad‑hoc analyses to be presented to DENV Top Management and Daikin Japan Headquarters
• prepare Budget consolidation
• critically think along with the company and initiate and support decisions in line with the long term Strategy
• 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)
• be located in Brussels supplemented by a homework policy

Your profile

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

Why Join Us

At Daikin, you can count on a varied job with an international market leader that stimulates its people to grow and to work together. We offer you an open ended contract. You will be given extensive training and will be well supported from the start. The position carries a competitive salary, flexible working hours, homework policy and a package of extra‑legal benefit choices. This function offers an excellent stepping stone to take on more responsibilities in a planning‑oriented function or a detachment abroad at one of our EMEA affiliates.

Daikin Europe is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd. and the leading provider of heating, cooling, ventilation, air purification, and refrigeration technology. The company designs, manufactures and brings to market a broad portfolio of eq