Manager Controlling Transformation – Analytics & AI (m/f/d)

What you will do

You will help shape the next generation of controlling at tesa by sitting at the interface of Sales Controlling, IT, and our Management Reporting & Systems team. Your mission: make our controlling processes measurably more efficient and impactful through SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and agentic AI.

In this role you go beyond classical controlling — though you start hands-on in the operational core. You embed yourself in the Sales Controlling Consumer team to understand the business end to end, uncover bottlenecks, and translate real-world needs into scalable analytics and automation solutions — across reporting, commenting, planning, forecasting, analysis, and decision support. Expect the first phase to be strongly operational, working directly in day-to-day Sales Controlling.

After an initial phase of delivering tangible improvements for 6–12 months, you will expand your scope and apply proven approaches to other teams across Controlling & Accounting — always connecting business needs, IT capabilities, and analytics-platform delivery.

• Become a trusted partner within Sales Controlling Consumer by mastering end-to-end processes, data flows, governance needs, and timing constraints
• Identify high-impact efficiency opportunities across reporting cycles, commentary collection, forecast preparation, variance analysis, and management Q&A
• Design target processes and operational playbooks that simplify and standardize controlling activities
• Build, enhance, and maintain SAC content across reporting and planning (models, stories, dashboards, input forms, collaboration features)
• Translate business questions into clear KPIs, data models, visualizations, and actionable insights — enabling self-service where it makes sense
• Develop and scale automations and agentic solutions (with human-in-the-loop controls) that reduce manual effort and support decision-making
• Collaborate closely with IT and platform teams on architecture, integrations, security, and lifecycle management
• Drive requirement workshops, backlog management, testing/UAT, training, and go-live activities
• Turn progress, benefits, and adoption into measurable impact, and build reusable templates and best practices to scale beyond Sales Controlling Consumer

What you will need

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Informatics, Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field
• A strong analytical mindset paired with hands-on data-analytics and implementation ability — you move from problem statement to working solution
• Practical experience in Controlling, Sales Controlling, or Commercial Finance (or a strong drive to build it quickly), ideally including planning/forecasting or sales performance management
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or comparable enterprise BI/planning platforms and readiness to ramp up fast; an understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT basics, and KPI governance is a plus
• Interest and initial experience in automation, AI-assisted analytics, or agentic workflows; familiarity with Microsoft Copilot Studio (or similar), responsible AI practices (data privacy, role-based access, traceability), and vibe coding are welcome
• Excellent communication skills — you translate between business and IT and explain complex topics to non-technical stakeholders
• High ownership, curiosity, and a proactive, structured, reliable working style
• A bonus: hands-on tooling such as scripting (SQL, Python, Java) or automation platforms (e.g. Power Automate / Power Platform), and SAP experience (S/4HANA, SAP BW, SAP Datasphere, Business Data Cloud)
• Fluent English; German is a plus

What you can expect

tesa is one of the world's leading manufacturers of adhesive tape solutions, with a range of more than 7,000 products. With passion for technology, we drive innovation, reliability, and sustainability to shape a better future.

Our solutions make a difference in the work, products, and lives of our customers across a variety of industries, including Automotive, Electronics, and Home applications. With this, we address a broad segment of business customers, but also you as a private consumer.

You might be surprised to discover the many places where our adhesive solutions are at work, from the battery in your electric car, to the display of your mobile phone, and even in the elevator in your building. Wherever you look, you'll find tesa - holding the world together since more than 125 years.