(junior) business controller

Company Description

Join our global Finance team and play a key role in shaping business decisions across HR, Legal, and Finance. As a (Junior) Business Controller, you will transform data into actionable insights, partner with senior stakeholders, and help drive performance in a fast-paced international environment. If you want to take ownership of financial topics and enjoy working in a collaborative environment where ideas, constructive challenges, and continuous improvement are valued, then this is your opportunity.

In this role, you will combine financial expertise, strong analytical capabilities, and excellent communication skills to support business leaders across functions. By translating complex financial information into actionable recommendations, you will help drive informed decision-making and create alignment across different management levels. This position offers the opportunity to develop into a trusted finance business partner while strengthening your capabilities in analytics, reporting, and data visualization.

Job Description

FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

In this role, you act as the primary Finance business partner for managers and budget owners across the global HR, Legal and Finance functions. By understanding stakeholder priorities, business challenges, and financial requirements you build trusted relationships. You translate complex financial information into clear and meaningful insights, support decision-making with fact-based recommendations, and confidently present financial developments to different stakeholder groups. In addition, you ensure that global Finance standards, policies, and guidelines are understood and consistently applied.

PLANNING & FORECASTING

You coordinate planning and forecasting activities across various functions and management levels to ensure high-quality submissions and timely delivery. Furthermore, you review and challenge budgets, prepare monthly year-to-go estimates, and contribute to business plans, revised estimates, and long-term forecasts. You proactively identify risks and opportunities and communicate them clearly to relevant stakeholders.

REPORTING, ANALYSIS & DATA QUALITY

You are responsible for delivering timely and relevant financial information to budget owners and management. By enriching reports with meaningful commentary, variance analysis, and business insights, you help stakeholders understand financial performance and identify opportunities for improvement. You also support departmental budget tracking and ensure high data quality by maintaining controlling master data, including cost centers, internal orders, and hierarchies. In addition, you contribute to reliable standard reporting and ad hoc financial analysis across controlling systems.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

As a Finance representative in cross-functional initiatives, you ensure that financial requirements are considered in business projects and processes. You continuously review existing controlling activities, identify opportunities for automation and simplification, and help improve analytical quality. You also serve as Finance key user for workforce planning and workforce reporting while coordinating intercompany recharge processes to ensure compliance and accurate allocation of costs and revenues.

Qualifications

• University degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Fluency in English, German is a plus
• First relevant professional experience in controlling, financial planning, reporting, accounting, or business analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial topics clearly and adapt messages to different stakeholders and management levels.
• Confidence in presenting financial results, facilitating discussions, and constructively challenging stakeholders.
• A strong affinity for AI and digital tools, with curiosity about how they can improve financial analysis, reporting, and controlling processes
• Strong interpersonal skills and credibility to establish trusted working relationships across functions
• Strong analytical mindset and understanding of the business context behind financial results
• A proactive, structured, and collaborative working style with the ability to manage several topics and deadlines in a fast-paced international environment
• A willingness to question existing approaches and contribute practical improvement ideas
• Experience with ERP, business intelligence, consolidation, or planning systems
• Familiarity with SAP modules such as FI, CO-PA, or SD, as well as exposure to workforce planning, workforce reporting, or functional cost controlling, is an advantage

Additional Information

Due to legal reasons we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is EUR 2,362 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.