V.I.E - IM Investment Operations Controller.

at  Air Liquide

Presentation of the entity:
World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,5 million customers and patients.
Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders. Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.
As the size and the complexity of the Industrial Merchants (IM) is growing, we have reorganized the department over the last two years.
Air Liquide Benelux Industries (ALBI) IM legal structure is still evolving as we are integrating new entities (recent acquisition of Hatek in April 2022) while ensuring that the previous acquisitions are well incorporated so far (ICS, Cryotainer, ALC, Scott).Besides that, the growing Business Line “H2E” requires more attention as it has an increasing need for investment to support their growth.
On top of that, the Management has put a strong focus on the profitability (vertical ratios) and scrutinized all the spendings. Therefore, we want to involve the investment controller way more in the controlling tasks to help the team during the high peaks. Part of his role would also be to help the Commercial teams with adapted tools to ease their quotations and challenge the expected profits vs the reality.
Presentation of the team and business activities:

Current structure of ALBI IM business controlling team is the following:

• IM/H2E Head of Business Control: 100% dedication, manages the team (PG and Bulk controllers, and GEX/PEX controller). He was onboarded in March 2022 and is responsible for the full P&L, consolidation and reporting to the upper management.
• IM Bulk Business Controller: 100% dedication, in charge of BOS business. He was onboarded in August 2023 and was previously already working for a few years for the Finance department (Liège) as an external consultant.
• IM PG Business Controller: 100% dedication, in charge of PG business. He joined the department in September 2022 and was a former Sales Analyst in the Digital team, and has therefore good affinity with BI system (Wave).
• GEX and PEX controller: 50% dedication, former HR administration specialist focused on General and Personal expenses control and is ‘shared’ between IM and LI business lines.

EDUCATION:

Engineering or Business School background (field of specialization: Economics/ Finance/ Accounting/ Data Science)

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Data-driven, at ease with ERP and systems (SAP, Power BI), basic accounting background (Opex vs Capex)

• Highly motivated, team player, reliable and entrepreneur mindset (owner of the tasks)

• Basic knowledge of the industry

Languages :
English Fluency is a must have
Dutch (basic notions) are a nice to have
Please send your CV and motivation letter in English! Position based in Brussels , Belgium for an initial period of 12 months, (extendable once). Position open only for candidates eligible to the VIE program. Therefore, only the applicants meeting the requirements of the French V.I.E program will be taken into consideration. Please visit this website for more information about these requirements:

• Basic knowledge of the industr