Business Controller in KONE managing financial performance and business insights across Supply Chain Europe. Collaborating with technology, product management, and logistics to optimize profitability and value creation.
About the role
- Controller overseeing planning and financial reporting processes for Schäfer Shop, a leading office supplies provider in Europe, enhancing operational efficiencies and transparency.
Responsibilities
- Shape the planning process: You will assume the coordinating and conceptual responsibility for planning, drive the further development of the planning process and the planning system, and align them with future requirements.
- Manage forecasts and budgets: You will advise and support the preparation and operational creation of forecast, budget and medium-term planning while optimising structures and procedures with a solution-oriented approach.
- International business partner: You will support the foreign subsidiaries, keep an eye on results and costs, recognise patterns and deviations, and ensure transparent, targeted reporting.
- Drive analyses: You will independently perform evaluations, contribute your own ideas and proactively implement improvements as soon as you identify potential.
- Advance controlling: Together with the team you will work on the further development and ongoing implementation of profit and cost controlling, in particular for the foreign subsidiaries.
- Optimise reporting: You will contribute to reports for management, shareholders and the advisory board, prepare presentations and decision papers tailored to the audience, and use feedback to continuously improve quality.
Requirements
- Successfully completed degree in economics with a focus on controlling/accounting or a comparable qualification
- Several years of professional experience in corporate controlling, ideally in a (omnichannel) retail company
- Solid knowledge of German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS
- Very good user skills in MS Office
- Ideally basic SAP (CO/FI) knowledge
- Good written and spoken English
- Strong analytical thinking and quick comprehension, even for complex interrelationships
- High level of commitment, persuasiveness and strong communication skills
Benefits
- Comprehensive onboarding over several weeks at the Betzdorf site and support from an onboarding manager
- A permanent and secure position with a high degree of personal responsibility
- An open corporate culture of a medium-sized family-owned company
- 30 days of annual leave
- Mobile working
- Company pension plan and capital-forming benefits
- Individual training opportunities and regular employee reviews
- Participation in cross-departmental projects
- Healthy company canteen in Betzdorf
- Health promotion (ergonomic workstation, workplace glasses, health days, etc.)
- Company events
- JobBike
- Corporate benefits and employee discounts
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