Business Controller

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As a Business Controller, you turn numbers into a concrete steering tool for executive management and team leads within a complex and highly regulated food production environment.

You work closely with the day-to-day realities of production, procurement, and operations, translating financial and operational analyses into actionable decisions around cost prices, yields, efficiency, and margins. In the initial phase, you will build a clear, usable controlling and reporting structure; thereafter, your role will evolve alongside the organization, in close collaboration with the executive team.

Your Responsibilities:

Costing & Profitability

• Developing and refining cost calculation models (raw materials, yields, waste, labor, energy, overhead).
• Analyzing yields per product, batch, and line.
• Generating insights into margins per customer, contract, and channel.
• Identifying structural profit and loss drivers and challenging pricing and product decisions.

Production & Operational Controlling

• Establishing and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) regarding output, efficiency, capacity utilization, and staffing.
• Working in close collaboration with production, QA, and procurement.
• Supporting capital expenditure (CAPEX) investments through solid business cases.
• Analyzing the financial impact of quality issues, audits, and rejections.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting

• Coordinating the budgeting process and monitoring rolling forecasts.
• Conducting scenario analyses on volumes, raw material prices, energy, and labor costs.
• Analyzing monthly results and translating them into clear, actionable management reports.

Processes & Systems

• Improving data flows between finance, production, logistics, and procurement.
• Taking an active role in optimizing ERP systems, reporting tools, and data quality.

Your Place in the Organization:

• You report to the CCO / Executive Team.
• You work very closely on a functional level with operations and procurement.
• You are part of the Finance team.

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Your Responsibilities:

Costing & Profitability

Production & Operational Controlling

Budgeting, Forecasting & Reporting

Processes & Systems

Your Place in the Organization:

• qualification

  • Education: Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics (TEW), Commercial Sciences, Finance, or a related field.
  • Experience: At least 5 years of experience as a controller in a manufacturing environment (food, agro, or process industry).
  • Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of cost accounting and production yields.
  • Software Skills: Advanced Excel skills and hands-on experience with ERP systems.
  • Mindset: Analytical, critical, and pragmatic.
  • Operational Drive: Comfortable on the shop floor and willing to challenge existing assumptions.
  • Communication: Able to translate data into actionable insights and clear decisions.
  • Languages: Fluent in Dutch; functional knowledge of French and/or English.

• benefits

  • A key role with real impact within a growing food company.
  • Close collaboration with the executive team and operations.
  • Room for initiative, ownership, and personal growth.
  • A competitive salary package including attractive fringe benefits.