Planning and Reporting Specialist
About Brussels Airlines
Brussels Airlines, part of the Lufthansa Group, is the national airline of Belgium with its home base at Brussels Airport. Our mission is to be the most reliable airline, making everyone feel at home. We are passionate about what we do, whether it’s on board, in an office, in the hangar or at an airport. Our people are recognized for always going above and beyond and for constantly challenging themselves.
Purpose of the position
The Planning and Reporting Specialist will be part of a team which is responsible to provide analytical solutions for financial and business steering. The Controlling Analytics and Reporting team owns the financial system stack (including SAP and Anaplan), acts as a centre of excellence in extended planning (XP&A) and is responsible for the overall reporting steered by Controlling.
The Planning and Reporting Specialist assists in maintaining the current available analytical products, translates day-to-day requests into requirements and a final solution, and takes part on bigger projects/developments within the team. Within the role she/he tries to make sure all decision stakeholders within the company are receiving up to date and correct information. As such she/he will have a lot of contact with various internal stakeholders, understanding and delivering upon their requests and questions.
Examples of new developments can range from new collaborative planning modules, the creation of management reports, system connectivity, route profitability products, and overall analytical solutions which help the company to make data driven decisions.
Main tasks & responsibilities
- Development, implementation and maintenance of planning methodologies
Main activities
- Gather business requirements for needed solutions (mostly on planning methodologies)
- Propose sustainable solutions and implement them in the selected environment (Anaplan, Excel, SAP, other). Connect to third party tools if required for benchmarking reasons or other
- Carry out system administration, testing and support incl. creation of global test concepts
- Maintain the existing solutions and the new ones as they are developed
- Creation of advanced financial and overall reporting
Main activities
- Create business reports that provide insight into key data points
- Support various departments and controllers in reaching their goals through analysis
- Creation of benchmarking reporting
- Creation and maintenance of allocation models
Main activities
- Define and maintain flexible models to allocate costs and revenues in a meaningful way for multiple use cases
- Communicate relevant results and ensure consistency
- Continuous improvement (solutions and processes)
Main activities
- Participate to the department continuous improvement of processes & tools
- Analyse daily operational tasks and propose improvements to enhance performance
- Optimize way of working and ensure efficiency in the day-to-day tasks
Your profile
- University degree preferably in an economic, mathematical or IT environment, with a first professional analytical experience
- Excellent analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong conceptual capabilities and ability to understand business requests
- IT literacy, especially MS Office and reporting tools (Spotfire), open to learn about our Financial systems (SAP, Anaplan)
- Entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on attitude
- Strong interpersonal & intercultural communication skills, able to organize collaborative solutions
- Fluent in English (written & spoken)
What we offer
- A flexible reward plan that allows you to optimize part of your salary
- A flexible work environment focused on activity-based working and home office possibility
- Travel benefits
- Profit sharing
- Group insurance
- Company medical plan (optional)
- Meal & eco vouchers
- A spot in a very enthusiastic team & a great company to work for
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