Controller 💰

 Belgium, Kortrijk

Our mission 🚀

In 2016, our founders wanted to feed their dogs - named Edgard and Cooper - pet food they could feel good about. The kind of food that was as good for the planet as it was for their pets. But when they couldn't find this, they decided to make their own. Now, 8 years later, our pack has 200 employees and we are beyond proud to be part of the B Corp movement.

Want to find out more about us? Click HERE (https://www.edgardcooper.com/nl/our-story/)

What type of breed are we looking for? 🐕

As Controller (commercial) your primarily support the business by providing reports, forecasts, financial analysis, as well as recommendations for actions and therefore make an important contribution to the achievements of financial targets in line with the group’s strategy. Despite being a scale-up we have built a top end reporting environment in the past years! Recently awarded via “The Best Finance team 2024 award”. We are now looking for a new person to put the cherry on the cake and leverage these insights to concrete actions in close collaboration with the business

Sounds like you…., we have the perfect opportunity for you to help drive the Finance controlling department at Edgard & Cooper!

What will be in your bowl? 🥗

In this role, you will:

• Become the "go-to" person for several core markets.
• Have full P&L responsibility for these markets, providing you with a broad scope over the company and a significant learning opportunity.
• Prepare detailed monthly Marketing budget and actual reports, including comments.
• Improve our ROI calculations on Marketing investments.
• Build business cases on innovation.
• Conduct price analysis across customers.
• Focus on budgeting and forecasting, developing, monitoring, and coordinating the planning and budget process together with the FP&A Manager, while driving the sales and opex budgets in the yearly budgeting process.

What skills & tricks should you bring? 🤹

• Ideally you have a Masters degree in Finance
• You have a solid experience in a controlling environment
• You’re able to keep optimal accuracy, even in a busy, rapid-changing environment.
• You have an advanced knowledge of Excel, experience in SAP and BI is considered a plus.
• We’re an international company, you need to be great with English and Dutch (French is a surplus).
• You are an ambitious team player with a strong sense of ownership and a can-do mentality.
• You are able to present monthly, budget and ad-hoc reportings in a clear and structured way.
• You develop reports, dashboards and tools that provide insight into key business data.

For this position only candidates with the right to work in Belgium will be considered and visa sponsorship is not available.

Not sure if you tick all the boxes but our role truly excites you? Don’t let our job description hold you back, get applying!

Our benefits 🎁

• 💰 Competitive package that will reflect your built-up experience
• 🌱 Certified B Corp Employer with supportive policies and practices to ensure we are one happy pack
• 🏔 Company retreats to meet each other in person
• 👩‍💻 Flexibility to work 2 days from home to enjoy a better work-life balance
• 🐾 Pets at work, recognizing the joy and comfort of having your furry friend by your side
• 🧆Unlimited Pet food because a happy pet equals a happy family
• 🌟Volunteering day to contribute to a cause we believe in
• 🧠 Wellbeing program access to qualified counselling because caring for ourselves is just as important as caring for our pets
• 🏝️ 26 days paid holiday a year
• 🍿 Team activities (pawesome team buildings, Thursday drinks, cat day and many more! )
• 🔋 Learning opportunities in a truly international environment that will give you extensive responsibility but also guidance as you need it. Now being part of an international groups (General Mills) you will be able to get in touch with financial experts across every domain

⚠️ No agencies, recruiters or outsourcing companies.

Hiring Process 🕵️‍♀️ 

• 📞 Intro call screening with our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Bieke (25mins)
• 🎯 Competency based interview with Dennie, Controlling Manager  (45mins)
• ✅ Case study presentation (60mins)

Ideal start date: What are your plans tomorrow?

Equal opportunities 🌈

We believe the strength of a Pack comes from its diversity. We strive to create an environment where every person feels valued and empowered. So no matter who you are, where you come from, what you believe in or what your dreams are, we welcome you and look forward to receiving your application.

If your circumstances require any special arrangements at any stage of our interview process, please let us know.

We're looking forward to hearing from you.

We kindly ask to apply in English.