Controlling Analyst
Publication date: April 24, 2025
Ready to be the financial compass for our support teams?
Within Luminus, our Finance department drives sustainable value by providing accurate financial insight, robust fiscal management, and strategic support. Enabling the company to deliver reliable, affordable and clean energy by ensuring compliance, optimizing resources, managing risk and supporting investment in innovation and infrastructure that power the future.
As a Controlling Analyst, you translate figures into business insights and keep budgets on track. You identify, analyse and mitigate financial risks within the organization, ensuring compliance with regulations and supporting strategic decision-making.
What you’ll do
- You prepare monthly financial reports and interact with support departments, sharing results with ExCom and helping optimize expenses.
- Leading the month-end and year-end financial close, you also prepare monthly reports and conducting variance analysis for Luminus’ support departments.
- You organize meetings to gather budget and re-forecast information, ensuring planning assumptions align with company targets and collaborate closely with support department managers and ExCom members.
- Proactively participate in new initiatives and contribute to strategic exercises, including benchmarking, cost allocation and new processes, you steer the business towards value-added strategies.
- You review business cases for consistency, completeness and relevance, organizing and participating in follow-ups of significant investments to assess the precision and correctness of previous business cases.
- Controlling and monitoring operating expenses by department, you also organise quarterly expense reviews with support managers to review actual OPEX and prepare LEx.
What you bring
- You hold a Master's degree in finance or show us you have built up experience equal to this degree.
- You have experience in financial controlling.
- You can make independent decisions based on guidance from Finance management.
- You are skilled in using Powertools, Excel, SAP and BW.
- You have an affinity for IT development.
- You are fluent in English (Dutch and/or French is a plus).
Why join us
- You will play a crucial role in optimizing financial processes and contributing to the company's strategic goals, making a tangible impact on the business.
- You will utilize advanced tools like Powertools, Excel, SAP and BW, further developing your technical proficiency.
- You work from home or in a Luminus hub close to home. Nine-to-five, or not? There are options to make your schedule work for you.
What you’ll get in return?
The energy sector is one of the most rewarding industries in Belgium with a highly rewarding compensation and benefits package:
- Competitive compensation: Attractive salary with a performance-based bonus that can be optimized to your personal preferences, plus meal vouchers.
- Insurance & social benefits: Group insurance and hospitalization coverage for the entire family. Additional reimbursement for healthcare and pharmaceutical costs.
- Mobility: Full reimbursement for public transport, kilometer-based cycling reimbursement and flexible mobility choices: you can choose between a company car or mobility budget.
- Internet & communication: Home internet covered, reimbursement for a personal mobile device with a phone subscription.
- Home Office: A fully-equipped home office, including an ergonomical ICT set-up.
- Exclusive discounts: 30% off gas and electricity after six months, discounts on energy-saving services (e.g., solar panels, heat pumps) and reduced prices on top brands, amusement parks, festivals and more.
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