Financial Analyst
Our client, the market leader in self-storage, is looking for a Financial Analyst in Brussels.
Description
About your financial analysis responsibilities:- You ensure consistency and quality of data and analyze past and current performance.
- You identify trends and outliers in financial performance and make recommendations for improvement.
- You participate in the company’s investment properties valuation process.
- You support quarterly external reporting and presentations.
- You provide the management reporting and insightful business analysis for the profit and loss account.
- You carry out a detailed business control of store operations and head office departments.
- You identify and highlight variances from expected progress and outcomes to Executive Committee and other internal takeholders.
- You prepare material for the Board of Directors and various sub-committees, as well as ad-hoc analysis and presentations.
- You improve the reporting quality on detailed level, through consistency of tools and the quality of data.
- You participate in the preparation of the company’s budgets/forecasts and long-term business plan.
- You contribute to the improvements of the business reporting systems and tools.
- You standardize and automate data gathering (Power Query, PowerBI) and create/maintain financial dashboards.
- You identify and implement new analysis methods and tools.
Your profile
- You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics, or similar through experience.
- You have a first experience in Finance and/or Reporting.
- You are fluent in English. Good command of French and/or Dutch is considered as an asset.
- You have an affinity with ERP / IT / Programming.
- You have a working knowledge of Microsoft applications.
- Advanced level in Excel would be a plus (e.g. pivot tables, spill functions, etc.).
- Experience with Power BI, Power Query would be a strong plus
- You have strong analytical skills and ability to present complex matters in a structured way.
- You can work with tight deadlines and in a changing environment with conflicting priorities.
- You show flexibility and are open to change.
- You actively seek opportunities for self-development and learning.
- You express yourself clearly and professionally, can influence customers using the available tools.
- You prioritize own tasks, complete work to deadlines and work independently.
- You work effectively as a team member.
- You have affinity to data analytics and statistics.