Financial Business Consultant

Job Title: Financial Business Consultant

Job Type: Contract

Who can apply: Freelancers

Location: Brussels Belgium

Language: English and French

Work regime: Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)

Position Overview:

The Finance/Business Controlling Team is looking for a new consultant to join the team. The consultant will have two main missions:

• Budget & Forecasting - Responsible for the entire Client budget, forecast
• Strategic & Transversal Projects - Responsible for financial oversight of key strategic and transversal projects.

What you'll do:

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Build annual budgets, forecasts, and 3YP (P&L, Capex, cash flow) in collaboration with business leadership. Analyze various financial outlooks.
• Monthly & Year-End Closing: Oversee the monthly closing process in collaboration with the accounting department to ensure accuracy, relevance, and compliance of financial reports.
• Financial Analysis: Identify variances versus financial targets and recommend corrective actions to senior management.
• Management Reporting: Define management and operational reporting dashboards. Provide insightful financial analysis to support decision-making.
• Project Management: Act as a financial expert in strategic and transversal projects initiated by Management, Finance, or Operational Departments.
• Business Case Supervision: Drive and oversee all business cases related to the organization.
• Continuous Improvement: Challenge the status quo, seeking efficiencies in cost-saving, quality improvements, and work processes (e.g., tooling).
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Critical Initiatives: Take ownership of specific key initiatives where relevant.
• Ad-Hoc Requests: Address financial requests from the CFO or Management.

You will play a key role in challenging business tasks, balancing financial constraints with business needs, and proposing reasonable trade-offs to the Executive Committee. The role involves coordination, questioning, and challenging both Business and Finance partners to ensure financial objectives are met.

This position provides a strategic helicopter view of high-level decision-making and offers an opportunity to influence these decisions. It also ensures high visibility and frequent interaction with Top Management.

What you bring:

• Master's degree (University level).
• 8-15 years of experience in Finance or Management Consulting.
• Deep knowledge of accounting, financial analysis, planning & controlling.
• Ability to translate operational drivers into financial KPIs.
• Experience in project/process management within Finance consulting and/or financial audit.
• Telco sector knowledge is a plus.
• Expertise in MS Excel & MS PowerPoint, and proficiency in reporting techniques (dashboards, reports, trends, graphs, etc.).
• Familiarity with accounting tools (ERP systems, reporting systems, etc.).
• Fluency in English; proficiency in French and/or Dutch.

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

• Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
• Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
• Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
• Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

• Women's Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
• Forbes, America's Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
• American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
• Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
• Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
• Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023