Job area: Finance
Activity: Baking
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Contract type: VIE
Experience: Graduate

Contribute to an exciting mission
What will your daily life look like?

🇧🇪 Why Ghent?

Welcome to Ghent – Belgium’s best-kept secret! 💙 Nestled between Brussels and Bruges, this vibrant university city blends medieval charm with modern energy. Expect canals, bikes, creative cafés, and festivals all year round 🎓🎨🍻 — a perfect base for living the European experience.

💼 Your Mission: Make numbers meaningful

You’ll support the Senior Controller and the Finance Team to provide valuable insights and drive smarter decisions:

📅 Assist in monthly, half-yearly, and annual closings
📊 Use Hyperion / STAR to deliver reports to Group Finance
📈 Help build rolling forecasts & budgets (Sales, Margins, Costs)
🔁 Prepare & update transfer prices and monitor intercompany flows
💸 Track pricing strategies and cost evolution
📉 Perform margin, variance, and production cost analyses
📊 Improve reporting tools (SAP + Power BI)
🗂️ Maintain master financial data in ERP systems

Make a personal impact
That makes you the ideal candidate

👀 What we’re looking for

🎓 Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or similar
📊 Solid foundations in management control or financial analysis
🛠️ Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Power BI
🌍 Fluent in English and French (Dutch is a plus!)
💬 Clear communicator, hands-on, analytical thinker
💡 Curious about business processes, manufacturing, and performance

👤 You must:

Be 18–28 years old
Be a citizen of the EU
Have never done a V.I.E. in Belgium before
ℹ️ Details: mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr

🚀 What you’ll get

✅ Real experience with a high-performing finance team
✅ Exposure to both local and Group-level projects
✅ Friendly work atmosphere, diverse team
✅ High-impact learning curve and ownership of your projects
✅ Possibility to build a long-term career with Lesaffre – in Belgium, in France 🇫🇷 or around the world 🌎

Grow in a Global Network
What We Bring to You

Why choose this VIE?
🌍 Gain valuable international experience in Belgium
📈 Work on strategic projects in process optimization
💼 Develop your career in an industrial environment with high-impact
💰 VIE status = tax benefits and an attractive package
✈️ 1 round-trip to home per year covered (economy class)

📅 Mission details

📍 Location: Ghent – Belgium
⏳ Duration: 24 months
🚀 Start: Q4 2025
🎓 Status: VIE (Volontariat International en Entreprise)

🧪 Recruitment process:
1️⃣ Screening call 2️⃣ Interview with your future manager 3️⃣ Final interview with the regional CFO 🎉 Offer!

📈 And after the VIE?

We don’t just hire for 24 months — we hire for potential 🚀
🎯 Our ambition is to offer you a long-term role after the VIE, either in Belgium, France, or elsewhere in our global Lesaffre world 🌍

🎯 Join us and grow globally

At Lesaffre, VIEs are future leaders. We aim to hire and promote VIE talents across our global network. Your journey starts here – but it doesn’t end here! 🌍

[Diversity & Inclusion]: At Lesaffre, diversity is a strength that enriches our culture and our teams. We are committed to offering you a work environment where you can thrive, regardless of your background, gender, age or abilities. We encourage all applications, as we believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our ability to innovate and meet the challenges of tomorrow.

🤝 Ready to shape the future of finance with us?
Apply now and let’s write your next chapter at Lesaffre 📚✨

Let’s take on tomorrow’s challenges together

Company Description

As a global key player in yeasts and fermentation, Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology.
Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company, Lesaffre is committed to working with confidence to better nourish and protect the planet.
In close collaboration with its clients and partners, Lesaffre employs 11 000 people in more than 50 countries.
Lesaffre achieves a turnover of 3 billion euros.