Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d) Zone West Europe
You are looking for a new challenge combining Business Partnering and Controlling? An international scope is important to you?
Apply at Hager Group!
We are currently looking for our future Controlling Business Partner (m/f/d) Zone West Europe based in Blieskastel (Germany) or Obernai (France) for a permanent contract.
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) Zone West Europe, you support the transformation of the Controlling Department and contribute to reach our ambition by Strengthening value contribution & business impact.
Your mission
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 profitable growth, organizational development and improve business processes
- More specifically, you drive pricing initiatives, customer rebate initiatives, commercial cost initiatives and create and drive growth development business plans
- You will work in an international environment responsible for MA UK and MA Ireland with one direct team member located in UK
Reporting to the Controlling Business Partner Director Global Sales and Marketing (located in France), you are in charge of one of our key market zone in Europe and your main missions are the following:
- Support the market area business for the region:
- 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 the forecasting process at segment and MA level
- Work in collaboration with the local sales and marketing 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
- Manage a team of one local person
- 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 5 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.