About the mission
The role involves supporting the FP&A team in professionalizing management reporting, focusing on developing and automating reports. The consultant will analyze existing reports, improve data quality, and manage stakeholder requests effectively.
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Overview
For temporary support of the FP&A team, we are looking for an experienced consultant to help further professionalize and structure our management reporting. The focus is on developing, improving, and automating reports to support decision-making. Stakeholder management is extremely important: in a context of deep change in financial discipline, a new reporting set must be created that can have C-level impact. The ideal candidate will be very strong in structuring requests from multiple and diverse stakeholders (BU directors, BU finance directors, banks, credit agencies, etc).Key Responsibilities
The consultant supports the FP&A team by:Analyzing and optimizing existing reports
Developing new management and steering information
Improving data quality and reporting processes
Increasing automation and efficiency within reporting
Responsibilities
Evaluating the current reporting environment (tools, processes, data flows)
Developing and implementing standardized reports (monthly, quarterly, ad hoc)
Setting up and improving KPI dashboards
Supporting budget, forecast, and closing processes
Structuring financial and operational data
Documenting processes and reporting models
Knowledge transfer to the internal FP&A team
Advising on best practices in performance management
Skills & Experience
Structured and process-oriented thinking
Proactive and independent
Solution-oriented
Change-oriented
Attention to detail and a helicopter view
Structured and process-oriented thinking
Hands-on mentality
Strong analytical skills, structured approach, proven stakeholder management
Languages
Fluent in Dutch
Fluent in English
Additional Info
Start date: as soon as possible
Duration: 1st contract period 6 months / possibly extendable
Reporting to: Head of FP&A / CFO
Remote work within POAB is possible. This will always be done in consultation with the direct supervisor.
What you'll do
- Evalueren van de huidige rapportageomgeving (tools, processen, datastromen)
- Ontwikkelen en implementeren van gestandaardiseerde rapportages (maandelijks, kwartaal, ad hoc)
- Opzetten en verbeteren van KPI-dashboards
- Ondersteunen bij budget-, forecast- en closingprocessen
- Structureren van financiële en operationele data
- Documenteren van processen en rapportagemodellen
- Kennisoverdracht aan het interne FP&A-team
- Adviseren rond best practices in performance management
What we're looking for
- Aantoonbare ervaring binnen financieel beheer
- Aantoonbare ervaring in FP&A (Financiële planning & analyse) / controlling / finance consultancy
- Aantoonbare ervaring in het definiëren van KPI’s en het opzetten van dashboards (maandelijks / kwartaal / ad hoc)
- Aantoonbare ervaring in het structureren en prioriteren van requirements (incl. C-level stakeholders)
- Aantoonbare ervaring met BI-tools (bv. Power BI, Tableau)
- Aantoonbare ervaring met ERP systemen
- Aantoonbare ervaring met het opstellen van draaitabellen, het hanteren van gecompliceerde formules in Excel
- Hogere opleiding (Master of Bachelor) in een financiële richting of gelijkwaardig door ervaring
- Vlot in het Nederlands
- Aantoonbare ervaring in FP&A (Financiële planning & analyse) / controlling / finance consultancy
- Aantoonbare ervaring met financiële modelisatie
- Aantoonbare ervaring met Microsoft Office Toepassingen (Word, Excel, …), SAP en business intelligence tools (Power Bi)
- Aantoonbare ervaring met rapportering op C-niveau
- Aantoonbare ervaring van IFRS
- Vlot in het Engels
- Aantoonbare ervaring met Power Query en/of SQL voor automatisatie
Skills
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Excel
- SAP