Normec Life Safety is the largest and fastest-growing business line within Normec Group, operating across six countries and more than twenty business units in a regulated environment where compliance and reliability are critical.
With ongoing buy-and-build expansion, the organization is rapidly increasing in scale and complexity. This requires tighter financial control, consistent reporting and stronger data integrity across countries. In this context, you play a key role in building structure, improving transparency and enabling controlled, scalable growth.
In this role, you report directly to the Finance Director Life Safety and operate at the core of the control and reporting environment across the international portfolio. You ensure consistency, reliability and transparency in financial reporting, working closely with local finance teams across countries.
You combine hands-on responsibility with a strong focus on structure and standardization. You ensure smooth financial processes, timely and accurate reporting, and a consistent financial rhythm across all entities. You take ownership of the financial reporting structure, including the monthly closing cycle, and safeguard the integrity of the P&L, balance sheet and cash positions, supported by high-quality and consistent data. You also own and continuously improve management reporting and board packs for senior stakeholders.
You further develop and maintain the Tagetik reporting environment, ensuring reliable data flows and aligned reporting outputs across countries. By standardizing reporting formats and definitions, you improve comparability and strengthen financial insight and control.
Within budgeting and forecasting cycles, you ensure a structured and consistent approach across countries. You consolidate, validate and analyze financial data, identify key variances and underlying drivers, and bring clarity and structure to the numbers.
As newly acquired companies are integrated, you ensure reporting consistency, aligned data definitions and adherence to existing financial processes and cadence, supporting scalable and controlled international growth.
This role sits at the center of a rapidly scaling, international platform within Normec Group, offering direct exposure to multiple countries and a high level of complexity. You will operate in a setting where structure is continuously being built, giving you the opportunity to shape how financial processes and reporting are organized across the business line. The combination of scale, international scope and ongoing acquisitions makes this a role with a strong learning curve and visible impact. It is particularly well suited for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity and wants to grow within a dynamic, buy-and-build environment.
You are a control-oriented finance professional with a strong technical foundation and a clear understanding of how financial data is structured. You assess data integrity with precision, recognize inconsistencies and understand the underlying accounting mechanics behind the numbers. You are comfortable working with financial statements and ensure that reporting is accurate, consistent and well-structured across entities.
You bring a hands-on and structured approach, with a strong focus on quality, consistency and process discipline. In an international environment that continues to evolve, you add clarity and stability to financial processes and reporting. You take ownership, ensure alignment across countries and contribute to building a scalable and well-controlled financial foundation.
“At Normec Group, you step into a dynamic, international environment where growth and complexity go hand in hand. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership, build structure and further develop yourself within a fast-evolving organization.”
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
• Approximately 4–6 years of relevant experience in financial control, reporting or accounting, preferably within an international or multi-entity environment. Experience in a buy-and-build or private equity setting is a plus.
• A solid understanding of accounting principles and financial statements, with the ability to assess data quality, understand how numbers are constructed and identify inconsistencies or gaps in reporting.
• Experience with monthly closing, financial reporting and management reporting, as well as involvement in budgeting and forecasting processes. Familiarity with consolidation or reporting tools (e.g. Tagetik) and BI environments is considered an advantage.
• A structured and hands-on mindset, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency and process improvement. You are comfortable operating in a dynamic environment and enjoy bringing clarity and discipline to a growing organization.
Normec Group is one of Europe’s fastest-growing providers of Testing, Inspection, Certification and Compliance services. Founded in 2016, the organization has scaled rapidly through an ambitious buy-and-build strategy, now forming a €700 million group with more than 6,000 professionals across six countries. Backed by private equity, Normec continues to expand internationally while strengthening quality, compliance and performance across its business lines.
About Life Safety
Life Safety is Normec’s largest business unit, generating around €250 million in revenue. It delivers essential inspection, testing and certification services that help organizations ensure the reliability of safety-critical systems in buildings, industrial facilities and public infrastructure. Clients span healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, retail and commercial real estate—sectors where compliance, accuracy and trust are essential.
Scale, Complexity & Growth
Life Safety operates across several countries, each with its own systems, regulations and levels of maturity. Continuous acquisitions add new companies, processes and reporting structures into the business line, creating an environment where complexity is high and standardization is crucial. For finance professionals, this offers a unique opportunity to work close to the operation while navigating the challenges of multi-entity, multi-country integration.
Culture & Way of Working
The culture is pragmatic, hands-on and improvement driven. Teams collaborate across borders to strengthen processes, bring consistency to reporting and build scalable ways of working without unnecessary bureaucracy. It’s an environment for people who take initiative, enjoy ownership and prefer to move quickly over theoretical debate.
Life Safety offers visibility, influence and a steep learning curve within a PE-backed, high-growth organization. You work closely with regional teams and Group Finance, contribute to professionalizing one of Normec’s most complex business units, and gain experience in international integration, performance management and scalable finance processes.
