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The Head of Controlling (Finance) is responsible for the financial controlling function, ensuring the accuracy, efficiency, and strategic alignment of financial reporting, planning, and analysis. This role involves overseeing reporting structures, standardizing data, driving automation, and providing key financial insights to support decision-making. The position also requires strong leadership skills to manage and develop the controlling team while ensuring compliance with corporate financial policies and processes.
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Financial Controlling & Reporting:
- Develop and enhance local reporting structures to meet evolving business requirements.
- Standardize financial data and reporting through the creation of uniform reports.
- Implement automation in regular financial reporting processes to improve efficiency.
- Conduct target vs. actual financial analysis for planning, forecasting, and business performance evaluation at multiple levels (company, value stream, customer, and product).
- Develop scenario-based calculation tools for value stream analysis.
- Prepare financial data to support management decision-making, including pricing negotiations and internal meetings.
- Simplify inventory valuation processes to ensure consistency and reduce complexity.
- Recalculate standard prices and analyse population changes affecting financial performance.
- Oversee and execute inventory assessments and controls.
- Manage financial aspects of development and investment controlling.
- Coordinate and communicate financial matters with the UK head office.
- Continuously improve controlling processes and systems to enhance efficiency and business performance.
- Lead and oversee P&L, balance sheet preparation, and consolidation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
- Serve as a financial business partner to management, providing insights and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making.
Operational Excellence & Cost Management:- Identify and implement cost and price optimization strategies to improve productivity across operations, commercial, and support functions.
- Deploy 80/20 thinking and LEAN finance tools to drive continuous improvement, mentoring, and disciplined execution.
- Analyse value stream performance, operational KPIs, and capacity utilisation to provide recommendations for resource allocation.
- Ensure financial targets align with strategic goals and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Implement cost control measures and identify root causes of financial inefficiencies.
- Develop and implement LEAN costing and quotation approaches to streamline financial processes.
- Manage financial system transitions to ensure continuity and efficiency in costing and performance management.
Leadership & Team Management:- Lead, manage, and develop the controlling team to build a high-performing finance function.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge-sharing, and professional development.
- Ensure the finance team is aligned with business objectives and financial best practices.
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- A university degree in accounting, controlling, finance, or a related field (Master’s/Magister/Diploma preferred).
- Extensive experience in financial controlling, including managerial responsibilities in a multi-level production company.
- Strong IT skills, with knowledge of ERP and controlling software (MS Dynamics preferred).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience with digitalisation and automation of financial processes.
- Proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel and experience of handling large data sets
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a proactive and independent working style.
- High level of responsibility, assertiveness, and decision-making capability.
- Manufacturing experience required, ideally within a precision engineering environment
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- A career ladder system, which defines the career progression path for employees based on their skills, experience, and length of service
- Integrated career progression framework with other processes in the organization as performance reviews, goals and OKRs, and promotion management.
- Internal Hiring – Advertising posts and promotion opportunities within the organization
- Providing employee development that readies workers for progression, such as training, coaching, mentoring, or involvement in special projects
- Regular Training Opportunities to develop skills at all levels
- Mentoring and Coaching schemes that give the individual’s the attention they need
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Resume screening
Send in your resume with all the information required. We usually take 10 working days to look over the applications and arrive at a decision – we promise to let you know either way. If your resume is cleared, you move to the next stage in the recruitment process.
Preliminary meeting
This can take place via a video call or a phone call, or even a direct meeting. This preliminary meeting gives us the chance to get to know you more and to clear you for the next round of assessment.
Assessment round
In this round, you will go through a technical or a functional assessment depending on the role that you have applied for. There is also a DiSC assessment round for candidates who apply to us for key roles.
Final interview
If you have made it this far then you get to meet the team leaders or top management of our company – depending on the job that you have applied for. The final interview helps us understand you even more before we hire you for the job.