Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d) MA Trading Partners & Export

You have got a strategic mindset? You are experienced in working closely with the Business?

Apply at Hager Group!

We are currently looking for our future Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d) MA Trading Partners & Export based in Blieskastel for a permanent contract.

Your mission

Bringing more value to the Business in a cost-efficient way is our ambition as Controlling Function. To achieve this ambition, Controlling department continues its Transformation Journey, which is based on 3 pillars: Organisation, Planning & Forecasting, Analytics & Digitalisation.

As Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d) MA Trading Partners & Export, you support this transformation of the Controlling Department and contribute to reach our ambition by Strengthening value contribution & business impact.

As a Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d):

• You proactively steer enterprise risk and opportunities, develop strategic initiatives, drive cost reduction efforts and set-up and maintain the financial (and partly non-financial) steering model
• Reactively, you drive enterprise agility, initiatives to promote growth, organizational development and improve business processes
• More specifically, you drive pricing initiatives, commercial cost initiatives and create and drive growth development business plans
• You will work in an international environment with team members located in several countries

Reporting to the Controlling Business Partner International Sales (located in Dubai), your main missions are the following:

• Support the Export business for the region International Sales:
  • Interact with decision makers
  • Connect and guide around financial implications
  • Provide meaningful set of data
• Financial planning and forecasting, in the frame of the Integrated Financial Planning (IFP):
  • Contribute to set the target (at least 4-eyes principle)
  • Cascade-coordinate-intervene to ensure that the budget in construction meet the target
  • In parallel, raise awareness on risk and opportunities vs. the target
  • Contribute to high-level forecasting at segment level
• Work in collaboration with the local Controlling teams and the operational managers to translate operative plans into business plans according to group’s standards
• Manage the budget and forecasts processes
• Analyze variances, make recommendations to the Top Management and deploy associated action plans
• Support operational teams through trainings and provide reliable data to facilitate decision-making
• Guarantee the application of the group’s standards

Your Profile

• Bachelor or Master´s degree or equivalent academic qualification
• Several years of experience in different areas of Controlling on an international scale with a strong proximity to the business
• Strategic mindset, problem solving and analytical skills are key to succeed in this position
• Your customer orientation, your ability to work in a transversal mode and your communication skills will be key competencies as well
• You know perfectly Excel, SAP and BW and are fluent in English. French or German language would be a plus
• Business Travels will be required up to 3 days/month

Our offer
You can expect a position with responsibility and variety in an international and innovative environment and motivated team. We offer intensive integration, an attractive and fair compensation as well as internal and external training.

Your challenge
Take your future chance and convince us. You can upload your application easily in our Groupwide application management system. Please use the opportunity of the online application, 10 minutes are enough! We are available in advance for your specific questions.