Financial & Business Controller

Robert Half is currently recruiting a Financial & Business Controller (M/V/X) - Region Antwerp Our client is an entrepreneurial investment-focused organization with activities across long-term investing and financial services. The company combines a strategic, hands-on approach with a strong focus on sustainable growth, financial discipline, and value creation. The scope of responsibilities for this job as Financial & Business Controller (M/V/X ) include:

You oversee the financial performance of the organization's investment and financial services activities, ensuring timely, accurate, and decision-relevant reporting. You coordinate annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning, while challenging assumptions and tracking performance against objectives. You define, monitor, and analyze financial and operational KPIs, identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and value drivers for management.

You prepare and review business cases, financial models, scenario analyses, and benchmark studies to support strategic, investment, and financing decisions. You collaborate with the accounting team on monthly, quarterly, and annual closings, and contribute to statutory and consolidated reporting. You take ownership of recurring and ad hoc regulatory reporting and help ensure compliance with applicable requirements and deadlines.

You manage periodic reporting for key stakeholders and provide clear, actionable financial insights. You monitor cash flow forecasts and liquidity positions and support financing-related analyses and stakeholder interactions. You help strengthen internal controls and continuously improve finance processes, data integrity, and operational efficiency.

The requested qualifications for this job include

• You hold a master's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Economics, or a related field, combined with at least 3 years of relevant experience in controlling, audit, transaction services, investment analysis, or a similar finance position.
• You have a strong understanding of financial statements, performance management, and IFRS, and you ideally bring affinity with investment environments, financial markets, or regulated financial services.
• You combine analytical strength with a critical and solution-oriented mindset, and you know how to translate complex data into clear recommendations.
• You work confidently with Excel, and experience with SAP or another ERP system is considered an asset.
• You communicate fluently in Dutch and English and are comfortable engaging with both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• You are proactive, accurate, and intellectually curious, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• You bring additional value if you have experience with project management, internal controls, risk management, regulatory reporting, or financing projects.