Your Key Responsibilities

• Executive Sparring Partner: Act as a close business partner and right-hand advisor to the Site Director and Cluster MD to drive overall site strategy and performance.
• SLT Accountability & Challenge: Hold Site Leadership Team members accountable for operational and financial commitments, constructively challenging functional leads when off-track.
• Proactive Early Warning System: Identify site risks, cost drivers, and operational bottlenecks early, while uncovering growth and margin expansion opportunities.
• Hands-on Shop Floor Steering: Deep-dive into daily operational processes alongside shop floor teams, managing total site P&L performance beyond standard accounting.
• Efficiency & Transformation Execution: Design, implement, and track site-wide cost-out programs, continuous improvement (CI) initiatives, and commercial actions (e.g., price increases, operational excellence).
• Team Leadership & Centralization: Direct and develop local teams across Controlling, Accounting, IT, and Admin; adapt organizational structures towards cluster/group centralization where effective.
• Financial Management & Governance: Oversee timely statutory and management accounting under HGB and IFRS, annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, working capital, and cash management.
• CAPEX & Process Optimization: Evaluate strategic investment proposals (>€100m program), review ROIs, and modernize financial systems using SAP, Power BI, and Data Analytics.