Senior Specialist Corporate Controlling (m / f / d)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :

The Corporate Finance & Controlling team provides overarching insights including early trends to co-pilot key business decisions and drive financial ambitions. The team enables capabilities, best practices & governance across markets, categories & channels.

The Corp. Controlling Specialist will play a pivotal role in innovating financial planning, reporting and analysis processes, procedures, tools, and methodologies by harnessing the benefits of Power BI and other advanced technologies. The individual in this position will contribute to our digital finance transformation and promote a modern Controlling mindset within the Corporate Finance & Controlling community.

The Controlling function underpins the business by providing critical information that supports financial decision-making, enhances transparency in actuals reporting, and improves accuracy in planning activities, including forecasting and budgeting.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute budgeting, forecasting and cost monitoring processes ensuring data quality and integrity across various systems and tools
• Support the supervisor to partner with the business within the assigned area of responsibility
• Facilitate the establishment of transparency in budgeting, forecasting, and cost monitoring processes, while contributing to the integrity of these activities.
• Ensure data mechanization and daily / monthly maintenance of the information in the reporting / budget systems
• Ensure the seamless operation of daily business activities by taking ownership of related responsibilities.
• Continuously seek opportunities to enhance daily tasks to optimize controlling, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), and overall financial execution, thereby facilitating improved sharing of key financial information.
• Execute standardized reporting and conduct ad-hoc analyses as required, applying modern technologies (incl. AI) to existing systems / tools.
• Oversee cost centers and provide support to cost center managers in all financial matters, including investment and recruitment requests, as well as cost recharges.
• Manage and support small-scale projects, assisting in the implementation of findings and ensuring the sustainability of achievements.

Key Relationships

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications