Senior Financial Advisor - Project Finance

Your Work Context

To strengthen our internal finance department, we are currently looking for an experienced Financial Advisor to join our team at our offices in Aalst (Hofstade).

A prominent player like Jan De Nul Group requires a robust financial department. Our team guarantees the delivery of financial expertise across the entire group, ranging from accounting and data controlling to bank guarantees and taxation. Our primary focus is on making sound financial decisions and managing and optimizing all financial processes. Together, we make a difference.

Your Role

As a Senior Financial Advisor Project Finance, you will be involved from A to Z within your financial domain in domestic and international projects across the various segments in which JDN Group operates: dredging and marine works, offshore, civil engineering, and environmental activities.

Your primary tasks and responsibilities include:

• You develop suitable financing solutions for assigned projects. You are involved in structuring and monitoring project-level credit facilities (PPP projects) and credits insured by an Export Credit Agency (Credendo / Delcredere-Ducroire, ODL, etc.).

• You are responsible for the risk assessment and management of new or existing projects. You handle the monitoring, analysis, and control of internal company risks (financial, insurance-related, payment, transfer, etc.), both on-balance and off-balance sheet. You also perform financial analyses of relevant business partners (clients, consortium partners, suppliers) to help mitigate risks.

• You actively participate in and lead financial working groups with clients, banks, and financial consultants.

• You maintain relationships with financial, multilateral, and insurance institutions regarding corporate finance, project finance, and structured finance.

• You coach and motivate junior colleagues within the team.

• You are responsible for providing financial input for new tenders.

• You are responsible for financial reporting and communication both internally (to management) and externally (e.g., to financial institutions).

You will work from our centralized and easily accessible offices in Aalst, Hofstade, with a willingness to travel occasionally for short business trips to our projects worldwide.What do you bring?

A Master’s degree in Business Engineering, Applied Economics, or Business Administration, combined with at least 10 years of relevant experience in a financial environment. You possess broad financial knowledge, with an affinity or interest in project finance. A solid understanding of and interest in financial modeling (Excel) is considered a plus.

• You are a results-driven, motivated person with a high degree of independence.
• You possess strong attention to detail and a structured, organized approach. You possess strong communication skills, a proactive mindset, and a strong sense of responsibility.
• You have experience in guiding and coaching junior colleagues.
• You can communicate fluent in Dutch and English. Knowledge of French and Spanish is a plus.
• You are willing to undertake occasional short-term international travel for project negotiations.

Working at Jan De Nul

Working at Jan De Nul means helping to find solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time: from energy transition to rising sea levels to smart mobility. It means learning and working together every day, with the aim of ensuring the global quality of life for generations to come.What we offer

• Through the JDN-Academy, we offer you a permanent training trajectory.
• Our FIT-programme allows us to monitor your well-being. The programme is centred around exercise, food and a healthy work-life balance.
• A healthy work-life balance (flexible working hours and occasional work from home).
• A permanent contract with 42 paid holidays (20 statutory, 12 ADV and 10 public holidays).
• An attractive salary with thirteenth month and double holiday pay including:
  • Meal vouchers and eco vouchers;
  • Possibility to participate in the Flex Reward program containing bicycle and car leasing including fuel card in Belgium;
  • Group and hospitalisation insurance;
  • Option to iPhone with phone-data abonnement;
  • Various staff discounts;
• You will be part of an international growing family business.

That world is what you make it

Jan De Nul Group shapes water and land around the world, addressing some of the most important challenges of our time. We boost the energy transition with infrastructure for renewable offshore energy. We focus on nature-inclusive dredging solutions to build harbours and protect our coastlines from the rising sea. We develop innovative construction projects for smart mobility and durable buildings. And we invest in planet redevelopment, giving new purpose to polluted sites. At Jan De Nul, the world is what you make it.    

Jan De Nul Group promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are an equal opportunities and anti-discrimination employer.