Job Description
Description
You’ve probably already heard about Ghent’s buzzing tech scene, now’s your chance to be part of it! Ready to make an impact as our first Controller in a fast-scaling SaaS company, where you’ll further professionalise our financial reporting and structure?
We’re looking for a Controller to own reporting, drive process improvements, and architect the financial foundations that inform business choices in our unique SaaS + hardware environment.
Logistics? Maybe not what you dreamed of as a kid. But building a fast-growing international SaaS scale-up that’s transforming how some of the world’s largest industrial companies operate? That’s a different story.
Peripass is a tech company at heart. We build software that digitises and automates complex logistics environments for companies like Bridgestone, Alpro and Arcelor Mittal. These companies have hundreds of trucks (un)loading every month, and our SaaS platform helps them orchestrate that whole process. Peripass is a high-impact SaaS platform used in international enterprise environments.
Ready to be part of the next steps of Peripass? Here are your three core responsibilities:
You own and continuously improve the reporting and controlling flow
Deliver accurate and timely monthly management reporting
Review actuals together with Accounting to ensure results are complete, reliable, and correctly structured
Prepare clear variance analysis versus budget, forecast, and prior periods
Create and maintain ad hoc reports based on business needs
Develop new reporting views and dashboards as the company evolves
Own and improve the Power BI reporting environment
Ensure reporting is clear, actionable, and useful for business planning and decision-making
You strengthen the company structure through strong financial and business insights
Follow up on reporting needs and translate them into the right company structure, including cost centers, cost types, and reporting dimensions
Align with Accounting to ensure correct, simple, and efficient usage of financial structures
Help judge when adjustments are needed to improve transparency, accuracy, scalability, and control
Provide stakeholders with meaningful insights into costs, performance, margins, and business drivers
Help build visibility on our SaaS + hardware model, including recurring revenue, one-off revenue, gross margin, and customer or segment performance where relevant
Act as a finance business partner to colleagues across the company, helping them understand their numbers and make better-informed decisions
Support the CFO with insights and reporting for management, board, and strategic finance discussions
You own the budget process and drive efficiency through tools and automation
Own the budget process twice a year, including tools, content, coordination, and reporting
Support rolling forecasts and scenario planning as the company grows and priorities evolve
Work closely with colleagues to identify how tasks can be made more productive
Propose improvements that increase efficiency, visibility, automation, and data quality
Help the business adopt smarter ways of working through AI, BI tools, and process improvements
You will report directly to the CFO (Kristof De Ceuckelaere) and work closely with Finance, Accounting, and business stakeholders across the company.
What we offer:
Build financial structure in a scaling company: you’ll help architect the reporting and financial foundations as Peripass grows, since you will be the first controller. You’ll work on real projects like integrating new products and initiatives into our financial structure and reporting frameworks.
Work in a complex, interesting sector: the SaaS + hardware combination creates unique needs and opportunities.
A great bunch of colleagues who are all making the success story of Peripass, day after day, milestone after milestone, and joke after joke.
A solid salary package with great benefits.
Flexible working hours with a work-from-home policy.
Requirements
Come on, blow us away with your credentials! 💥
You have 2-5 years of experience as a business analyst, controller, or similar financial/analytical role
You have an analytical mindset: you can translate data into practical insights and think strategically about how to structure financial information
You speak Dutch at a native/full professional level, and fluent English is essential since that is our internal language
You work well across departments: you collaborate effectively with different teams with strong communication skills, communicate clearly and concisely, challenge existing ways of working when needed, and identify opportunities to improve automation, efficiency, and processes
You have strong technical skills: experience with BI tools (preferably Power BI), strong Excel and data analysis skills, and familiarity with reporting, budgeting, financial analysis, cost centers, and cost types. You’re comfortable working with financial systems, reporting tools, and automation solutions, and you use AI and other tools to improve finance and reporting processes.
You have a master’s degree with a business, economics, finance, or similar major (or equivalent professional experience that demonstrates the same capabilities)
