I’m currently looking for a Group Finance Controller for a permanent position based in Northern Germany.

Our client is an international manufacturer in the automotive industry, employing around 1,000 people worldwide. The company has recently expanded into innovative areas such as e-mobility.

To support its continued growth, the company is now seeking a Group Finance Controller to join its team.

Salary: €130,000 – €140,000 (approx.) 

Responsibilities: 

• Actively contribute to the design and further development of controlling to support and prepare strategic decisions and operational improvement measures
• Conduct regular evaluations and comments on business and financial performance on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Continuous improvement of group-wide forecasting and budget planning processes
• Optimization of the existing reporting landscape
• Support in the implementation of new systems and processes in controlling.

Requirements:

• Fluent in German and English (written and spoken)
• Completed relevant degree or comparable training
• Several years of professional experience in a similar position with an international focus
• Extensive knowledge of setting up and maintaining cost accounting and preliminary costing
• Knowledge of inventory valuation and rolling liquidity planning

Please reach out directly, or send your CV or recommendations to:
ana.sarjveladze@phippscameron.com

Responsibilities

• You are responsible for independently processing accounts receivable accounting.
• With a clear focus on standards, you handle inquiries and complaints from receivable holders and service recipients, compiling the appropriate documents to find solutions.
• You delve into accounting data and documents to uncover discrepancies and discrepancies and clarify all issues through your research.
• In close collaboration with receivable holders, payers, and specialist departments, you find solutions and coordinate them efficiently.
• You are responsible for maintaining open items, triggering reminders and their follow-up, and ensuring that changes to receivables are updated in the system.
• You independently make well-founded decisions regarding further actions, respond flexibly to the situation, and escalate quickly and competently if necessary.
• You create regular, meaningful evaluations and statistics that serve as a valuable information and decision-making basis for management.
• With your in-depth analyses and reports, you provide management and the board with precise data that serve as the basis for far-reaching decisions. You will also have:

Requirements:

• Successfully completed commercial training (e.g., tax clerk, industrial clerk) and ideally further qualification in finance
• Several years of operational professional experience in accounting
• Good MS Office skills, especially Excel
• Good DATEV knowledge, SAP knowledge desirable
• Experience with factoring and/or credit insurance desirable
• Knowledge of German tax law
• Fluent German and good English skills
• Independent and self-reliant working style
• Team-oriented thinking and acting in an international context
• Strong communication and assertiveness
• Analytical skills and a strong affinity for numbers