Your Profile

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration or Industrial Engineering
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in operational controlling within an industrial manufacturing environment
- Strong experience in Make-to-Order (MTO), project manufacturing or complex production environments
- Advanced SAP experience is mandatory, ideally including:
- SAP FI/CO,
- SAP CO-PC,
- SAP MM/PP,
- SAP CO-PA
- master data structures,
- and operational costing processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on mentality with strong operational understanding
- Experience working in international and cross-functional environments
- Ability to identify process weaknesses and drive sustainable improvements
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with operational stakeholders
- Fluent English required

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting and enhancing operational controlling processes across the organization, with a strong focus on SAP-based activities, material cost allocation and operational transparency.

You will work closely with Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, Supply Chain and Finance teams to stabilize and improve operational controlling structures in a complex project-based manufacturing environment.

Your Responsibilities

• Operational Controlling & Transparency

- Improve transparency of material consumption and allocation across projects, products and customers
- Analyze material cost deviations, margin leakages and operational inefficiencies: product profitability
- Monitor and explain material expense ratios across products, projects and manufacturing entities
- Support the implementation and stabilization of operational controlling standards across the group, in SAP but also - implementation of procedure by group level
- IC price calculation – improvement
- Perform detailed variance analyses related to:
- material consumption,
- labor allocation,
- inventory movements,
- production variances,
- and project profitability
- Support the development of operational KPI structures and management reporting
- Part of operational SAP CO activities (costing, month-end closing, issue resolution)
- Cross-plant production controlling
- Intercompany pricing and costing processes

• SAP & Data Quality Improvement

- Drive improvements in SAP master data quality across material masters, BOMs, routings and costing structures
- Identify inconsistencies and process weaknesses affecting operational and financial reporting
- Support optimization of SAP CO-PC related processes and operational controlling structures
- Act as interface between Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain and Finance regarding SAP controlling topics
- Contribute to ERP stabilization and process harmonization initiatives across international entities

• Manufacturing & Project Costing

- Improve transparency and reliability of project and customer profitability
- Analyze costing structures within a Make-to-Order and project manufacturing environment
- Perform loss-free valuation analyses for inventory and long-term manufacturing projects
- Support inventory transparency and inventory valuation accuracy
- Monitor operational cost drivers and identify improvement potentials
- Support standardization of costing and allocation methodologies across entities

• Cross-Functional Business Partnering

- Work closely with plant management and operational departments across multiple international sites
- Challenge operational assumptions and support fact-based decision making
- Support operational excellence initiatives with financial and operational analyses
- Contribute to reducing uncontrolled project losses and improving operational discipline