About the role

  • Business Controller overseeing financial strategies for a leading trading company. Responsible for financial steering, advising management levels, and enhancing performance management processes.

Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for the financial management and oversight of a central business unit, including planning, forecasting, month-end close and reporting.
  • Act as a Finance Business Partner and advise operational and management levels on financial and business matters.
  • Analyze pricing and margin structures and derive measures to sustainably optimize performance.
  • Identify opportunities and risks early and ensure transparent communication.
  • Initiate sound profitability and ad-hoc analyses to secure results.
  • Drive the further development of reporting, forecasting and planning processes.
  • Work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, BI and IT.

Requirements

  • Completed degree in Business Administration, Finance or a comparable field.
  • Very good command of English.
  • Several years of experience in controlling, finance business partnering or purchasing controlling.
  • Ideally industry experience in retail or the FMCG sector.
  • Strong analytical skills and a very good understanding of numbers and processes.
  • Solid knowledge of SAP FI/CO, BI tools as well as MS Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Confident communication in German and English; able to prepare complex content in a clear and understandable way.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented working style with a pronounced hands-on mentality.

Benefits

  • Access to attractive positions that are often not publicly advertised.
  • Personal advice and support throughout the entire application process.
  • Honest feedback, discretion and industry expertise.
  • Partial mobile working and flexible working hours.
  • Open, family-like and appreciative corporate culture with team events.
  • Dynamic, innovation-friendly and agile working environment.
  • High degree of personal responsibility and freedom to implement your ideas.
  • Regular training and seminars in the internal academy.
  • Dogs are welcome at the office (campus).
  • A wide range of offerings for health, prevention, fitness and yoga@work.
  • Attractive additional benefits such as employee discounts, company bike and occupational pension plan.
  • Hybrid working model with two days of home office and 30 days of vacation.

Job title

Business Controller

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

€75,000 - €89,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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