About the role
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... Sounds interesting for you? Click here to find out more. 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.