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)
- 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.
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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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.