Your mission
- You build and develop plant and project controlling for our production sites and large-scale projects from the ground up, establishing suitable management logic, KPIs, standards, and processes.
- You are responsible for budget planning and regular forecasting for our plants and large-scale projects, analyzing deviations and their operational causes, and deriving concrete actions.
- You act as a trusted sparring partner for plant and project managers as well as the specialist departments, supporting them with well-founded analyses and clear recommendations for action.
- You establish meaningful management reporting and prepare financial and operational data to provide management and specialist departments with a clear basis for decision-making.
- Together with the specialist departments, you embed the controlling standards and processes you develop into day-to-day operations and ensure that they effectively support planning and management.
- You actively contribute to cross-functional projects and, when required, take responsibility for sub-projects or lead projects end to end.
Your profile
- You have a degree in business, economics, or a comparable field, with a focus on controlling, finance, or accounting.
- You bring several years of professional experience in controlling and are confident in planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis.
- Experience in plant, production, or project controlling is a plus.
- You have experience building controlling structures, processes, and KPIs and know how to establish them together with the specialist departments.
- You quickly grasp complex production and project relationships and present financial and operational information in a clear, decision-oriented way.
- You communicate clearly and appropriately for your audience and engage confidently with plant and project managers, specialist departments, and executive management.
- You work independently, in a structured and solution-oriented manner. Even when managing several topics in parallel, you set clear priorities and keep the overarching objectives and relevant details in view.
- You have very good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with SAP R/3 or SAP S/4HANA is an advantage.
- You communicate fluently in German and English.
Why us?
- You take ownership from day one – after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
- You work on something that truly matters – with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
- You're part of a mission-driven team – in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
- You work to the highest standards – we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
- You grow with us – at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.