Business Controller LivTec (m/f/diverse) - REF1792M

Job Description

As Business Controller (m/f/diverse) LivTec, you serve as the financial business partner to the LivTec leadership team, providing analytical insights, commercial guidance, and performance transparency to support strategic and operational decision-making. Through proactive performance steering and profitability management, you help drive sustainable business success.

Your responsibilities:

Business Partnering & Management Support

• Act as financial business partner for LivTec Segment Management, Vertical Heads & its sales organization
• Support management decisions through fact-based financial analysis and commercial consulting
• Actively challenge business assumptions and propose improvement measures to enhance profitability and sustainable growth

Sales Strategy & Planning

• Provide controlling expertise in the LivTec strategy process, including contribution to sales strategy development
• Support long-term planning activities (e.g. LTSP) with robust financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Translate strategic targets into actionable sales and financial KPIs

Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Steering

• Own and drive performance steering cadence (weekly/monthly) including KPI tree, countermeasures and follow-up tracking (PDCA)
• Use PVM reporting transparency (price-volume-mix drivers) to steer and challenge execution with relevant stakeholders
• Lead profitability improvement program tracking (measures, impact, owners, timing)
• Take ownership for content, correctness, and timing of the LivTec budget process
• Ensure high-quality sales forecasting, including volume, price, mix, and margin development
• Analyze deviations and proactively identify risks and opportunities

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare management-oriented business insights & decision papers based on standard reporting outputs for Segment and Regional Management
• Monitor and analyze sales, contribution margins, customer and product profitability and derive actions/steering implications
• Drive business requirements for performance transparency & ensure steering adoption across regions/industries

Global Controlling Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with controlling peers within the Business Area (BA) and across regions
• Ensure alignment with corporate and BU controlling standards and processes
• Define and prioritize business requirements for improvements (tools/process/data)

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Controlling, or comparable
• Several years of experience in Sales Controlling / Business Controlling, preferably in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience working in a global, matrix organization is an advantage

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with a clear business mindset
• Ability to translate complex financial data into management-relevant insights
• Confident communication and stakeholder management across hierarchical levels
• Structured, proactive, and solution-oriented working style
• Advanced MS Excel skills; experience with SAP and BI tools is a plus
• Fluent in English, German is an advantage

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

• Training opportunities
• Mobile and flexible working models
• Sabbaticals

and much more...
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