(Senior) Project Manager Controlling & Performance Management

Context

Could your best career choice be one that propels you toward becoming an intrapreneur or entrepreneur in your field of expertise?

Sure is that success in industries often relies on key individuals demonstrating intrapreneurial leadership, i.e. who continuously develop new ideas and seek for excellence.

The best way to develop this strength is through temporary hands-on consulting roles -working alongside established intrapreneurs in international companies- to support their major expansion or improvement initiatives regarding governance, studies, or operations.

Furthermore, challenges in key strategic sectors offer greater learning opportunities with multi-million impacts:

• Public Infrastructures
• Process Manufacturing
• Component & System Technologies
  
  

One challenge for public infrastructures governance is that without strong controlling and performance management, large-scale energy transition programs risk delays, budget overruns, and loss of credibility in securing future investments.

=> We therefore invite you to join AETHER as a senior Project Manager Controlling and Performance Management.

Job Description

The scope of our mission is to reinforce a team as a right-hand consultant to drive strategic initiatives in controlling and performance management supporting large-scale infrastructure projects in the energy sector.

The Key Responsibilities Expected From Our Consultant Might Include

Support projects through high-quality and detail-oriented execution, ensuring accuracy and meeting expectations:

• Design and implement innovative controlling tools and methodologies aligned with strategic objectives and industry best practices.
• Further develop group-wide project budgeting standards, e.g. contingency assessment.
• Develop integrated performance frameworks incorporating both financial and non-financial KPIs (e.g., capex delivery, operational efficiency, transformation progress).
• Build and maintain PowerBI dashboards and forecasting tools to support performance tracking.
• Develop and implement standardized processes, tools, and reporting frameworks for capex planning and controlling.
  
  

Support projects with rational and data-driven assessments regarding costs, quality, and timelines, providing objective analyses for decision-making:

• Support the definition of performance targets, monitor progress, and initiate corrective actions.
• Conduct financial and strategic analyses; prepare high-impact reports and presentations for senior leadership.
• Consolidate decentralized capex budgets and forecasts into a transparent, Group-wide investment overview.
  
  

Support Projects By Facilitating Communication And Reporting Between Stakeholders

• Coordinate a Group-wide community of practice focused on capex portfolio and project controlling.
  
  

The Experience We Are Actively Looking For

• Proven experience in strategic controlling or performance management, preferably in international settings.
• Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Business Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced PowerBI skills, including dashboard creation and DAX development.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with a strategic mindset.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities to engage senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies is an asset.
• An entrepreneurial experience or ambition is a plus (extra-professional or extra-academic is a great start).
• Immediate availability is preferred.
• Presence in Belgium is preferred, with valid Single permit for non-EU citizens.
  
  

Check with AETHER if more impactful opportunities are relevant for your experience or objectives.

For the sake of Business reactivity, priority is being given to candidates who are already living in Belgium and are available rapidly.

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