Head of Management Control & Cost Accounting - Part-time

About the job

We are looking for an experienced profile with strong expertise in management control and cost accounting. At the heart of financial steering, you analyse data, costs, budgets and results to provide a reliable reading of performance. Beyond technical skills, your ability to make figures simple, understandable and useful for decision-making will be crucial.

Head of Management Control & Cost Accounting - Part-time

Desired profile

• You hold a higher education degree in finance, accounting, management control or a comparable course
• You have several years of experience in a management control and/or cost accounting role, preferably in an environment where cost and performance analysis is important
• You master the main mechanisms related to costs, margins, profitability, budgets as well as valuation methods
• You are comfortable with financial analysis, forecasting, variance monitoring, reporting and identifying improvement opportunities
• You use Excel and ERP tools with ease
• You know how to structure, interpret and synthesise complex data volumes to extract clear and useful information for decision-making
• You communicate confidently and can adapt your explanations to interlocutors with different levels of financial knowledge
• Your ability to explain, listen and create constructive dialogue around financial and performance issues is a central element of the role

• A key role at the heart of performance management
• A transversal role, with autonomy and responsibilities
• A part-time position allowing direct contribution to financial decisions

• Participate in the preparation of budgets, forecasts and investment plans, then ensure their monitoring and updating in connection with operational data
• Lead cost accounting analyses to monitor the evolution of costs, margins and profitability of different activities
• Control the valuation of stocks and work in progress, highlight variances or points of concern and contribute to improving their management
• Develop financial monitoring and steering tools to have reliable, relevant and easily exploitable indicators
• Examine periodic results, understand the origin of observed variances and support the responsible parties in defining improvement measures
• Highlight opportunities to increase economic efficiency and propose suitable optimisation approaches
• Ensure the quality and consistency of information from operational activities used for cost calculations and financial analyses
• Present financial data clearly and concisely to facilitate understanding and use by interlocutors from different professions