Controlling Business Partner Director (m/f/d)

Reporting to the Controlling Vice President, you have the Controlling responsibility of the Sales & Marketing Activities of all Sales Entities in Europe.

Your mission

• As a member of the Controlling Leadership Team you contribute to the ambitions and business priorities of the Department with a highly performing and strategic forward thinking Controlling team and an active and strong partnering role
• As a Business Partner you manage enterprise risk and opportunities, develop strategic initiatives, drive cost reduction efforts, set-up and maintain the financial (and partly non-financial) steering model
• You will actively contribute and assist in the preparation of the annual integrated financial planning process (IFP), the intra-year integrated forecasting processes (IFF) as well as the three-years plan (sales projection, resources, costs, expenses, ROI) for the region
• Special attention to be paid upon ensuring that suitable costs and profitability ratios are maintained, and the sales productivity is continuously improved, not the least by supporting the centralization of certain sales & marketing activities to central European functions
• Support all pricing projects in the region to ensure profitable growth together with our Central Pricing Office
• Manage all local Sales & Marketing Controlling teams, corresponding to around 40 people located in 18 countries (Total Sales Volume in Scope is >2mbn€ and cost volume to be managed > 200m€)
• Coordinate & develop the European Sales controlling organization & an increasing Business Partner mindset under development with an extensive learning program supported by a renowned German University and consultants
• Actively participate to shape the Group Controlling organization by further implementing a state-of-the-art organization & processes including an excellent collaboration with the Accounting-Shared-Service-Organizations in the Group
• Support continuous improvement and harmonization of the sales controlling processes and database to increase efficiency and effectiveness
• Create consistent transparency of financial results not only in classical finance reporting like P&L and balance sheet, but especially across dedicated business channels like diffuse and project business
• Consistently implement the Group Financial Manual requirements and best controlling practices

Your profile

• Bachelor or Master´s degree or equivalent academic qualification Degree in Finance - business administration or equal qualification
• External advert : Minimum 15 year experiences in Business or Controlling Leadership position within an industrial & international company with a Controlling Business Partnering organization/ Internal advert : Minimum 10 years in financial, Controlling or Business Market management positions
• Strong skills in controlling & Finances
• Knowledge in Excel, SAP R3 and BW4HANA and ability to accompany the controlling & finance organization on the move to the new SAP/S4 in 2023
• Business awareness, customer centricity and passion for innovation
• Strategic and collaborative mindset
• Very good communication skills, self-driven & result oriented way of working
• Fluent in English, French or German language would be a plus.
• Willingness to travel (max. 20% with some variations over the year depending on the period)

Our offer

You can expect a position with responsibility and variety in an international and innovative environment and motivated team. We offer intensive integration, an attractive and fair compensation as well as internal and external training.

Your challenge

Take your future chance and convince us. You can upload your application easily in our Groupwide application management system. Please use the opportunity of the online application, 10 minutes are enough! We are available in advance for your specific questions.