Group Controller

Location: Luxembourg (HQ – Lintgen & Bissen)

Reporting line: Finance Director Luxembourg (Luxembourg perimeter & operational controlling) and Group CFO (group-wide responsibilities)

Position Overview

The Group Controller is responsible for steering financial performance, supporting executive decision-making and continuously strengthening controlling excellence across the Group. The role combines deep industrial controlling expertise, leadership of senior finance professionals, advanced SAP and finance analytics capabilities. The position is strongly anchored in the Luxembourg perimeter, which represents the largest, most complex industrial scope of the Group, while also carrying group-wide responsibilities for the controlling function, including SAP S/4 rollouts in subsidiaries.

Main Responsibilities:

Budgeting & financial reporting

• Leads the annual Group budget process, including the definition of guidelines, planning calendar, coordination with subsidiaries, consolidation and quality assurance of figures.

• Coordinates Group monthly financial reporting, including actual vs budget analysis.

• Leads the monthly business reviews for the Luxembourg entities in close collaboration with the controlling team and operations.

• Supports the statutory audits and contributes to the continuous improvement of controlling procedures, tools and governance.

Industrial Costing, Pricing & Inventory follow-up

• Coordinates group product costing methodologies, including standard costing, actual costing analysis and production variance analysis in SAP S/4 environment.

• Leads the plant controlling for Luxembourg manufacturing entities and support Operations through monthly review of P&L, ad hoc analysis on production efficiency, logistic flows improvements, and effective cost controls.

• Acts as a key business partner to Sales function by supporting pricing and margin calculations for industrial goods, customer-specific pricing logic and profitability analysis.

• Acts as group reference for inventory accounting and valuation, including slow-moving and obsolete stock analysis, cycle counting, definition and application of Group valuation rules, WIP monitoring and inventory turnover analysis.

• Ownership and governance of SKU-related master data impacting FI/CO in SAP S/4HANA, ensuring the consistency and correctness of valuation classes, standard and moving average prices, accounting and controlling views.

Leadership & Management

• Leads, coaches and develops a controlling team (4-5 headcounts) based in Luxembourg, ensuring strong expertise, continuity and proximity to the Group’s core industrial activities (evaluation, coaching, training).

• Supports subsidiaries, promoting best practices, methodological alignment and a strong financial controlling culture. Acting as a senior finance counterpart, the position maintains close relationships with plant managers and local finance managers across the Group.

• Works harmoniously in close cooperation with other senior finance managers, including Group Accounting Manager and Group Tax Manager.

• Supports the CFO and finance director in carrying out duties of the position.

SAP S/4 HANA & Digital Controlling

• Owns SAP Controlling (CO) module within S/4 HANA and plays a key role in upcoming SAP rollouts, with full responsibility for CO design, integration and alignment with Group controlling standards.

• Ensures strong cross-module integration with FI, MM, PP and SD, drives continuous improvement of end-to-end finance and controlling processes and supports the development of modern management reporting using SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI.

• Promotes the use of AI-enabled tools and automation in controlling, such as advanced analytics, anomaly detection and data quality improvements.

Profile & Qualifications

The successful candidate holds a master’s degree in finance, Controlling or Business Administration and brings relevant experience (~10 years) in industrial controlling within an international manufacturing environment.

• Proven experience in leading senior finance professionals and operating in complex, matrix manufacturing organizations is required.

• The role requires advanced SAP S/4 HANA expertise, with CO as a mandatory skill and strong cross-module understanding of FI, MM, PP and SD.

• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI is preferred, while exposure to AI or a strong interest in applying AI to finance and controlling is considered a plus.

• Fluency in English and French is required; German is an asset.

• Strong analytical skills required.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to adapt to a complex and dynamic industrial environment.

📢 Important: Only applications submitted via the official form will be considered. Applications sent through other channels cannot be processed.
🔒 Confidentiality guaranteed : all applications will be treated with the utmost discretion.

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