Interested in working on concrete financial challenges at the heart of an international business where every decision matters?
Join the Refining-Chemicals Finance Department and become a key player in performance management as an Inventory Performance Analyst.

🚀 What does the role involve?

💡 Your role in practice

Do you want to be at the heart of the financial performance of a global industrial activity?
In this role, you will directly contribute to the measurement, analysis, and reliability of the European petrochemicals margin.

👉 Your objective: transform complex flows (inventory, purchases, sales, pricing, etc.) into reliable indicators that drive business performance.

📊 Performance monitoring

• Contribute monthly to the preparation of economic results for various Business Units
• Ensure consistency between physical flows, invoices, and financial data

🔄 Flow & operations management

• Analyze and correct purchase/sales flows of products across the European platform
• Monitor “paper” operations and currency hedging positions

💰 Inventory & margin: the core of the role

• Value inventories (FIFO / LIFO / replacement cost methods)
• Control purchase variances and contribute to the understanding of gross margin

🌍 European coordination

• Drive and harmonize costing across petrochemical sites
• Contribute to quarterly closings (intercompany, reconciliations, etc.)

📈 Analysis & cash

• Perform working capital (WCR) analyses (customers / suppliers / inventory)
• Produce ad hoc analyses to support decision-making

⚙️ Processes & continuous improvement

• Contribute to structuring processes (procedures, SOX compliance)
• Participate in transformation projects, particularly around AI and automation

🌍 Your environment

• An international and dynamic environment at the heart of petrochemicals
• Daily interactions with back office, operations, controlling, and industrial sites
• High stakes around data reliability, VAT, and physical flows

👉 You work at the interface between finance and business, on concrete topics.

🎯 Why this role is key

You directly contribute to:

• ✅ the reliability of financial results
• ✅ the understanding of gross margin
• ✅ decision-making

👉 In short: you are not in a support role, you are at the core of performance management.

📈 What you will develop

• Strong expertise in cost accounting & inventory management
• A very concrete understanding of industrial business operations
• Skills in advanced financial analysis and data management
• Cross-functional and international exposure
• Exposure to modern topics (AI, process automation)

• Master’s degree in Finance (or equivalent)
• ~1–3 years of experience in finance / controlling
• Comfortable with modern IT tools
• French / English / Dutch is a plus

➡️ Above all: someone curious, rigorous, structured, and business-oriented, who enjoys understanding “what lies behind the numbers.”