Financial Controller

Finance Controller - Operations Control Analyst:

In this role, you will be responsible for providing standardized operations controlling and financial performance analysis across multiple global manufacturing sites, ensuring accurate reporting, cost transparency, and KPI management

Your job:

• Provide standardized global operations controlling analysis and reports for multiple production sites worldwide, with a particular focus on manufacturing order performance, product cost transparency and variance reporting
• Ensure consistent definitions, methodologies, and high data quality across all reports
• Collect, validate, and consolidate data from different plants in close collaboration with local controllers while taking site-specific requirements and challenges into account
• Analyze operational and financial performance such as costs, productivity, and variances, highlight key trends and deviations and discuss the results with the individual plants
• Support the further standardization and harmonization of reporting structures, KPIs, templates, by working closely with the plants and helping translate central requirements into practical solutions
• Act as a central reporting and consulting interface between global governance and local operations controlling teams
• Support ad-hoc analyses and management requests related to global operations controlling

Your qualification:

• 7 -10 Years experience with bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Controlling, Business Administration, CMA Inter / Qualified CMA

• Professional experience in an operations controlling position with a good understanding of operations controlling and manufacturing-related processes (e.g. cost structures, variances, productivity KPIs) and the ability to connect financial data with operational drivers.

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with a structured, detail-oriented and solution-driven working style.

• Very good knowledge of Excel; experience with BI tools (e.g. Power BI, SAP BW, or similar) and a strong interest in automation, digitalization, and AI-supported analytics are an advantage

• Practical experience with SAP systems (e.g. SAP CO, FI, MM, PP, BW), including data extraction and report preparation

• Ability to work effectively with global stakeholders across different cultures and functions with a consulting mindset and with the ability to build trust, understand plant-specific requirements, and balance central standards with practical local needs

• Strong communication skills in English with the ability to explain figures and analyses in a clear and concise way

• Advantage of your position: Close proximity to the local Operations Controlling team, providing the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of processes, challenge existing structures, and continuously improve reporting quality and relevance.