As a Junior Business Controller, you will support the Controlling team and the Head of Business Control in overseeing the business and financial operations of ALBI. You will assist in financial analysis, participate in planning processes, and help provide relevant support to management in decision-making.
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
Financial Analysis & Reporting: Assist in analyzing results for the monthly P&L and performing variance analysis. You will support the month-end close process to help guarantee the accuracy of the P&L from Sales to OIR, and assist in preparing timely, ad-hoc reporting of business performance.
Budget and Rolling Forecast Process: As part of the business control team, you will support the development of short-term (next month) and mid-term (next year) forecasts. You will also assist in the yearly Target setting and Quarterly Forecast processes.
Investment & Asset Management: Support the monitoring of the investment process for projects, from initial request to completion, verifying that expenses are correctly booked. You will also assist the team in managing asset registers, assets under construction, and tracking Capex expenditures for AL Group reporting.
Advising Departments: Help translate financial analysis into clear messages to assist the team in acting as a business partner for operations, commercial, and general management.
Continuous Improvement: Challenge the status-quo and propose process improvements within the financial controlling and planning processes. You will also have the opportunity to learn and support reporting on Group CO2 emissions, Energy Contributions, and taxonomy compliance.
Are you a MATCH?
Skills:
Knowledge specific to the job:
Master in Engineering or Finance.
Entry-level to 3 years of experience
Basic knowledge or strong interest in ERP, BI, and database systems.
Languages: English, French and Dutch are a plus.
Interest or background in energy-intensive industries is a plus.
Behavioral skills:
Rigorous and efficient.
Self-starter and autonomous.
Stress resistant to cope with deadlines.
Good communication skills to interact with operations and corporate teams.
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
Air Liquide is a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 72 countries with 67,800 employees, the Group serves more than 4 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the Group’s activities since its creation in 1902.
Taking action today while preparing the future is at the heart of Air Liquide’s strategy. With ADVANCE, its strategic plan for 2025, Air Liquide is targeting a global performance, combining financial and extra-financial dimensions. Positioned on new markets, the Group benefits from major assets such as its business model combining resilience and strength, its ability to innovate and its technological expertise. The Group develops solutions contributing to climate and the energy transition—particularly with hydrogen—and takes action to progress in areas of healthcare, digital and high technologies.
Air Liquide’s revenue amounted to more than 27.5 billion euros in 2023. Air Liquide is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange (compartment A) and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, EURO STOXX 50, FTSE4Good and DJSI Europe indexes.
