Our organisation
Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning of 200 years, offering Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance, and is also engaged in reinsurance activities. As an international insurance company, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors. Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. It represents a staff force of about 50,000 people and reported annual inflows of over EUR 18.5 billion in 2024.
Ageas aims to be a Great place to Grow for all its people, while always staying true to its four values: care, share, deliver and dare. Ageas strives to create a truly inclusive company – attracting the most talented people and offering a working environment where everyone feels they belong, collaborates to achieve our common ambitions and is recognized for their contribution. Ageas encourages its people to think and act differently, to speak up, to be themselves and to contribute their individual skills. For Ageas, diversity and inclusion is a business imperative, providing us with the foundation to achieve sustainable business results across different markets.
Ageas has been re-certified as Top Employer in 2024.
The vibrant Ageas Corporate Centre in Brussels is home to a variety of Group level functions including, amongst others, Risk, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Strategy, Business Development and Corporate Communications. It sets out the long term strategy for Ageas and coordinates numerous initiatives across the Group to help realise the strategic ambitions. The Corporate Centre also facilitates knowledge and skills sharing amongst its local operating entities and JV’s, creating strong connections and leveraging on local strengths. It represents the Ageas Group towards external parties, managing relations with analysts, retail and institutional investors, regulators, rating agencies and the media.
Your function
In your role as a Controlling & Reporting Specialist, you are part of the Corporate Accounting team consisting of a fellow controller, accountants and an accounts payable officer. You will be focusing on the General Account segment, which has in scope all the holding entities managed at the level of the Corporate Centre (excluding Reinsurance segment).
Your main responsibilities are:
Serve as the 1st line of control
- Ensure the controls included in the Control Framework are implemented.
- Pro-actively assessing and improving the current (reporting) processes and internal controls.
- Ensure the various information into the Consolidation tool (IFRS) is properly reported (in compliance with the Group’s Data Management Policy).
- Prepare a monthly (limited) and quarterly (extensive) analytical review on the movements of the figures. This will serve as input to assist other teams (FP&A, Consolidation & Financial Reporting & Control). To do so, you must have a thorough understanding of the underlying entities and transactions.
- Responsible for Balance sheet reconciliations across the finance department (including sensitive accounts). Influencing other Finance team members to complete quality reconciliations and account justifications on time.
Reporting
- Lead and develop monthly management reports explaining the trends of the period.
- Prepare a monthly (limited) and quarterly (extensive) cost report to the relevant budget owners and ExCo.
- Prepare the annual Multi-Year Budget and quarterly forecasts for the Corporate Centre, including a management report to be presented to ExCo. This involves having discussions with the budget owners based on the cost reports, where excellent communication skills are needed to harbor a collaborative atmosphere.
- Assisting the Group Finance Director in the preparation of the Multi-Year Budget and quarterly forecasts for Group Finance.
Other
- Assist on various projects in relation to the General Account segment mainly in the context of M&A and capital management transactions.
- Develop tools to come up with flexible reporting and analysis to support the cost initiatives within the Group.
- Assist in delivering information to the external auditors.
Your profile
- 5-7 years working experience within the financial services sector or large companies with an Academic degree in Finance, Business Administration or Sciences;
- Several years of experience in Accounting, Reporting and Consolidation or in one of the Big 4 audit firms;
- You have a good knowledge of IFRS and/or BE GAAP;
- You are analytical, have good problem-solving skills, eager to learn, you are determined and like to be challenged by complex technical topics;
- Having experience with Oracle NetSuite and PowerBI reporting are a plus;
- You have excellent communication and influencing skills to work with management and other departments;
- You are a team player, but you are also able to work autonomously;
- You are fluent in English. Dutch or French are a plus.
We offer
- The possibility of (maximum 50%) home working;
- A dynamic, multicultural working environment;
- An interesting and extensive salary package (including meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization, disability and group insurance, additional child benefit, mobile allowance and intervention in the internet reimbursement, ...);
- The possibility to optimize part of your salary package through a flexible income plan;
- A corporate culture where you are encouraged to share your views and opinions;
- A flat organizational structure with close collaboration and communication with management and cross departments;
- An extensive range of learning & development opportunities through our online learning platform;
The opportunity to further develop yourself and to be part of a great team at a Top employer in Belgium.
Interested?
Please apply online. We are looking forward to talking to you!
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