Regional Business Controller - Geotech

Job Description

For our largest Service Line in Europe Africa, we are looking for a Regional Finance Business Partner to join the EUAF Marine Site Characterisation (MSC) and Finance Leadership Team.

In this key role, you act as a strategic sparring partner to senior business leadership, steering financial performance across the Geotech service line and MSC as a whole. You drive value through insightful analysis, robust business control, and proactive identification of risks and opportunities. With ownership of budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting, you enable informed decision-making, margin improvement, and sustainable growth.

Your role

• You act as Finance Business Partner for the Geotech Service Line and play a leading role in the EUAF MSC Business Line and Finance Leadership Team;

• You serve as strategic sparring partner to the MSC Director and MSC Geotech Director;

• You lead and further develop the business control and project control teams across the Netherlands, UK, and Germany, aligned with standardised finance structures;

• You drive margin, cost and productivity improvements based on leading business indicators and financial analysis;

• You identify risks and opportunities, ensure strong control of large projects and investments;

• You collaborate closely with the Geophysics Service Line Controller to strengthen controlling across total MSC;

• You proactively advise and challenge the business on operational performance and short- and long-term strategy, co-leading the strategy and multi-year planning process;

• You identify risks and opportunities, ensure strong control of large projects and investments, and drive margin, cost, and productivity improvements

Your track record

• You have a MSc. degree in a relevant discipline e.g. Economics or Business Administration and preferably a certification in control (e.g. RA, ACCA, RC);

• You have extensive relevant experience in FP&A or Business Control preferably in project organisations;

• You understand major business drivers as well as the impact that organisational structure and process have on operations;

• With your pragmatic, holistic, critical and challenging approach you know how to assist the organisation go up the maturity ladder for business controlling;

• You know how to build strong relationships at senior level, both external as well as internal and can function effectively in a matrix organisation;

• You are a real facilitator how knows how to bridge the various interests in the company (Business Lines and Functional teams) that results in improved business performance.

What Fugro offers

• A diverse and inclusive working environment;

• A competitive salary;

• This amount is part of our salary range, with opportunities for growth within the role; 

• 29 holidays per year based on a fulltime employment (of which 4 are appointed by Fugro management) and the possibility to purchase 12 additional days; 

• Extensive career & training opportunities both nationally and internationally;

• Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home in accordance with your manager and corporate policies; 

• Commuting allowance;

• Modern pension scheme;

• Collective health insurance;

• Possibility to register with our corporate fitness plan;

• Coaching options through our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).

Are you interested?

Please visit our Company Page to find out more about what it is like to work at Fugro.  

For further information, please contact Stefanie Baldassarri-Steenhauer, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, tel. +31 (0)6-114 55954.  

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After you have applied 

• You will receive an automated confirmation-email of the receipt of your application.  

• When we see a match, we will invite you for the first interview within a couple of days. Of course, you will also receive a message if we will not invite you;  

• After a successful first round, you will be invited for the second round. 

• If we are both still positive after the second interview, we will make you an offer, and with that we hope to welcome you at Fugro!

Disclaimer for recruitment agencies:

Fugro does not accept any unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies. Acquisition to Fugro Recruitment or any Fugro employee is not appreciated.