Tasks

Finance, Controlling & Corporate Management

• Ensuring transparent and reliable financial information as a basis for business decisions
• Further development of our management reporting and relevant KPIs
• Creation and support of budget and forecast processes
• Responsibility for liquidity planning, cash flow and working capital
• Analysis of deviations between planned and actual results, as well as early identification of risks, opportunities, and the need for action.
• Preparation of economic, scenario and ad-hoc analyses
• Derivation of concrete recommendations for action and support of the resulting measures
• Further development of forward-looking financial planning
• Close collaboration with our financial accounting department as well as with tax advisors, auditors and other external contacts.

Business partnering & cross-functional collaboration

• Sparring partner for management and executives on financial and commercial issues
• Building a strong link between finance and our operational business units.
• Proactive procurement and consolidation of relevant information from different areas of the company
• Translating financial developments into understandable decision-making criteria and concrete recommendations
• Close collaboration with Operations, HR and other business units
• Analysis of processes beyond the finance area if they have financial or economic implications for the company.
• Identification of potential improvements and development of suitable changes together with the departments involved.
• Support for important entrepreneurial decisions from a financial and commercial perspective.

Processes & Digitalization

• Analysis and continuous improvement of our finance and related business processes.
• Identification and implementation of automation and digitization opportunities, especially in the DATEV environment
• Reduction of manual processes and creation of efficient and traceable processes
• Development of meaningful standards, KPIs and internal control mechanisms
• Independent management of improvement projects from analysis to implementation.
• Support in building structures that can grow with our company

Leadership & Development

• Taking on professional management responsibility within our finance department.
• Close collaboration with our Head of Accounting and, in the long term – depending on experience and the nature of the position – also the assumption of higher-level professional management responsibility.
• Further development of responsibilities, interfaces and collaboration within the finance department.
• Promoting personal responsibility, transparency and knowledge transfer

qualification

For us, it's not just about the positions listed on your resume. What matters is how you work and what understanding you have of a modern finance function.

They are a particularly good fit for us if you:

• have several years of professional experience in the finance, controlling or accounting field
• Ideally, you should have experience in a medium-sized company in the service sector.
• have already worked in an international corporate or customer environment
• bring sound knowledge of accounting according to the German Commercial Code (HGB)
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, liquidity planning and management reporting
• Familiarity with DATEV and digital financial processes, and a strong affinity for digitalization and automation.
• Not only process the data, but also interpret it and derive concrete recommendations from it.
• independently and proactively obtain the information required for your work within the company
• Recognize the connections between finance and operational processes and be able to link different business units.
• work analytically and in a structured manner, while remaining pragmatic and solution-oriented.
• Not only recognize potential for improvement, but actually drive change forward.
• Take responsibility and independently manage topics through to implementation.
• are willing to constructively question existing procedures
• already have management experience or feel confident in taking on professional management responsibility