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Senior Controller

Schwabach, BY

Permanent

Full-time

Job ID:

149173

Published date:

16/09/2026

Summary

Head of Controlling / Senior Controller (m/f/d) – Manufacturing & Private Equity

Our client is a leading, internationally operating manufacturer of customized industrial and consumer goods on a strong growth and expansion trajectory. As a long-standing technology leader, this medium-sized corporate group supplies well-known brands and is backed by a renowned, independent Private Equity investment firm.

To secure their ambitious growth targets and drive value creation, we are seeking a qualified and hands-on Head of Controlling / Senior Controller (m/f/d) for a permanent, full-time position located in the Nuremberg metropolitan area (Germany).

Key Responsibilities

Steering & Analysis: Monitor business development using financial metrics, and design management cockpits and KPIs.
Closing & Forecasting: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements (in cooperation with financial accounting) and validate the monthly forecast.
Management Reporting: Generate meaningful controlling reports (focusing on earnings, costs, and liquidity management) based on BI, AI, and ERP systems, with a strong emphasis on production and sales controlling.
Performance Improvement: Enhance multi-level contribution margin accounting, propose business optimizations, and track value creation initiatives.
Consolidation: Drive the monthly reporting cycle and consolidate the group's international subsidiaries (including UK and Italy).
Stakeholder Management: Support the Group CFO with integrated forecasts, budgeting, and liquidity planning for the group (including covenant calculation, pro-forma reporting, and adjustment reports).
Dashboard Implementation: Conceptualize and implement a KPI dashboard for metric-driven corporate management.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Group CFO, Head of Accounting, external advisors, banks, and investors.

Candidate Profile

Education: University degree in Business Administration (majoring in Controlling/Finance) or a comparable commercial background with additional certification as a Controller.
Professional Experience: At least 8 years of relevant controlling experience within a medium-sized, manufacturing industrial company.
Leadership: Initial experience in leading a team (directly and indirectly managing up to 3 employees).
Systems & Tools: Very strong proficiency in Excel; experience with BI/analytics software (ideally PowerBI) and ERP systems (e.g., D365), along with excellent knowledge of LucaNet.
Industry Knowledge: Deep process understanding of structures in manufacturing (ideally within the printing or packaging industry).
PE Affinity: Prior experience working within a Private Equity environment is a distinct advantage.
Traits: Strong hands-on mentality, analytical mindset, high commitment, and excellent communication skills.
Languages: Business fluent in both German and English (written and spoken).

What is on Offer

Stability & Compensation: A permanent employment contract and an attractive, performance-oriented compensation package.
Influence: Flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths, and a direct reporting line to the Group CFO.
Flexibility: Flexible working hours, 30 days of annual leave, and the option to work from home 2 days a week.
Growth: Exceptional personal development opportunities within a dynamic, PE-backed portfolio company.

Finance Director – AI Division

Reporting to: Division CFO
Exposure: Very high / daily interaction with Global C-suite, investors and senior business leaders

Business Overview

London Headquartered, PE-backed industrial software and AI business with £1.5bn revenue, £1bn ARR and 6,000+ employees globally with operations in more than 90 countries. The business is experiencing strong growth, with ARR and cloud revenue both growing at c.25% YoY.

The AI Division is a strategically important growth area, comprising 6–7 product groups, each with its own P&L and senior product leader.

Role Context

This is a senior Strategic Finance role within a high-performing, low-ego and highly collaborative environment. The successful candidate will take significant day-to-day ownership of the Division's finance agenda, working closely with the CFO, Strategic Finance leadership and wider C-suite.

The role offers substantial autonomy and is intended to provide a natural successor / second-in-command within the Strategic Finance function.

Key Responsibilities

AI Division / P&L ownership: Partner with product leaders across 6–7 businesses on performance, investment decisions, growth opportunities and P&L management.
Strategic finance: Own forecasting, month-end financial review and performance analysis, remaining close enough to the detail to ensure numbers and outputs are robust.
Board & C-suite reporting: Lead the financial narrative for the AI Division, producing high-quality Board and senior leadership materials and clearly articulating performance, outlook and strategic priorities.
Capital markets: Support equity, financing and other corporate events, including investor materials, Q&A preparation, data rooms and analytical work.
Investor / lender engagement: Contribute to reporting and communications with PE sponsors, institutional investors, lenders and rating agencies.
Capital allocation & ROI: Drive disciplined investment decisions across the AI portfolio, tracking returns and holding business leaders accountable for outcomes.
Team leadership: Lead a lean Strategic Finance team, currently comprising two offshore analysts, while developing the function and ensuring high-quality outputs.
AI-enabled finance: Identify opportunities to automate and improve finance processes using AI and emerging technology.

Candidate Profile

Looking for a commercially minded Strategic Finance leader who can operate confidently at C-suite and investor level while maintaining strong technical grip over the detail.

Key attributes:

Strong capital markets / PE fluency
Excellent financial reporting and analytical capability
Able to build and communicate a compelling financial narrative
Comfortable operating with significant senior-level exposure
Strong stakeholder and upward-management skills
High ownership and autonomy
Experience leading lean, high-performing teams
Commercial approach to capital allocation and ROI
Curiosity and a genuine interest in applying AI and automation to finance
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth technology environment

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Principal Engineer, AI/ML

Permanent

Full-time

Job ID:

138581

Published date:

08/04/2026

Summary

Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture

Foster City, CA | Development, Engineering | Senior Level

The Impact of this Role at Coupa:

Coupa's AI platform powers production agents, conversational AI (Navi), customer-built agents (Agent Studio), and a suite of ML models for classification, fraud detection, and supplier intelligence. The Principal Engineer, AI/ML Architecture will define the technical direction for the next generation of these capabilities, designing how we train, evaluate, and serve models that are deeply tuned to enterprise spend management. Reporting to the Sr. Director, you will be hands-on in architecture and prototyping while guiding a growing team of ML and data engineers.

What You'll Do:

Define the architecture for model training, evaluation, and serving across Coupa's AI platform.
Evaluate and select model approaches (open-weight, commercial, and hybrid) against enterprise accuracy and cost requirements.
Design evaluation frameworks that measure model quality on Coupa's specific task categories.
Drive technical partnership evaluations with AI infrastructure and model providers.
Architect training data pipelines, including synthetic data generation and quality validation.
Design retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that extend our existing RAG infrastructure with structured knowledge retrieval.
Establish technical standards for model safety, tenant data isolation, and responsible AI.
Write code, review PRs, and prototype approaches, especially in the early phases.
Mentor and guide ML and data engineers across US and India.
Collaborate with product, existing AI platform, and cloud operations teams.

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

15+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on ML/AI systems.
Demonstrated experience training or fine-tuning large language models. Must have shipped a fine-tuned or domain-adapted model to production.
Deep knowledge of transformer architectures, training optimization (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, RLHF, DPO), and inference serving.
Experience with distributed training on GPU clusters.
Strong understanding of RAG architectures, vector search, embedding models, and knowledge graph integration.
Hands-on experience with cloud AI/ML services (model hosting, managed training, or equivalent).
Experience designing and running custom evaluation suites for LLMs.
Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tooling.
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with enterprise B2B SaaS platforms preferred.

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