Financial Controller

Mission. You analyze the company's financial performance, build the forecast and budget and advise management as a business partner with numbers. You report to the [commercial lead / CFO / management].

Key responsibilities.

• Build and comment on the monthly management reporting (a P&L bridge, margin per business unit, working capital, cash flow) with a plan-actual analysis and a cause breakdown.
• Steer the annual budget process and the quarterly forecasts: align assumptions with operational functions, build sensitivity scenarios, validate with management.
• Business partnering with sales, operations, product and HR: pricing analyses, investment cases, headcount planning, margin review of new products.
• Build investment and pricing cases (NPV, IRR, payback, sensitized scenarios) for management.
• [If applicable] Consolidated reporting of several entities or business units, group reporting to the parent or holding company.
• Evolve the reporting and BI architecture: automate manual steps, build self-service dashboards, reduce the reporting lag after month-end.
• Interface with accounting and the tax adviser: analytical consistency of the cost-center allocation, accruals with a plan effect.
• Prepare and accompany the discussions with the auditor, banks and the advisory board or supervisory body.

Profile.

• Required: a completed business-administration degree with a focus on controlling, finance or accounting (bachelor's or master's) or equivalent experience; [3 to 8] years of experience in controlling, of which at least [2] years in a comparable role with autonomy; advanced Excel (Power Query, Power Pivot, dynamic arrays) and command of at least one BI or consolidation tool (Power BI, Tableau, Lucanet, Jedox, SAP CO, IDL Konsis); P&L and balance-sheet reading at HGB level.
• Desired: SAP CO experience; IFRS familiarity (leasing under IFRS 16, development costs, revenue recognition); SQL basics (reading and writing joins); experience at a multi-site or multi-entity SMB; an international certification (CIMA, CMA, ACCA) or the IHK certified accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter:in); sectoral depth in [our industry].
• Disqualifying: no experience with autonomous forecast or budget building; no command of bridge analyses (volume, price, mix); pure accounting experience without an analytical profile; rejection of modern BI tools.

What we offer.

• Gross annual compensation fixed [55-85] k€. No structural variable component; a possible annual profit-share of 5 to 10 % per company practice.
• Model: [full-time, hybrid 2 to 3 days / week on-site, based in [city]].
• Benefits: [company pension, bike leasing, employee shares, vacation, home-office policy, professional development (e.g. CIMA, CMA, IHK Bilanzbuchhalter:in, BI certifications)].
• Stack: [ERP, a BI or consolidation tool, treasury tools, advanced Excel].