As Senior Financial Controller for Group People Development, you will take full ownership of financial planning, forecasting, and budget steering for HR initiatives. You will act as a strategic advisor to the Leadership Team, ensuring financial transparency, target achievement, and fact-based decision-making.
This role combines strong controlling expertise with stakeholder management at senior level. You will proactively shape financial measures, challenge assumptions, and ensure that investments in people development generate measurable business value.
Your Responsibilities
- Own bottom-up and top-down financial planning at unit and project level, including multi-year planning and scenario modeling.
- Lead forecasting cycles and variance analyses, ensuring transparent budget steering and reliable financial outlooks.
- Analyze and interpret monthly results, identify deviations and financial risks, and derive concrete corrective measures with clear action tracking.
- Steer savings targets and cost efficiency initiatives in close alignment with Leadership and Project Leads.
- Manage year-end closing activities, including accruals and provisions, ensuring compliance with corporate finance standards and reporting requirements.
- Prepare decision-ready financial insights, steering options, and recommendations for Leadership meetings, and moderate financial discussions where required.
- Act as primary interface to Finance and HR, ensuring alignment between financial planning, workforce planning, and strategic priorities.
- Continuously improve financial transparency through dashboards, KPIs, and structured reporting formats.
Optional Role Enrichment
- Support selected organizational development and transformation initiatives with structured planning, budget transparency, and implementation tracking.
- Contribute to the preparation and orchestration of key leadership and people development formats (e.g., strategy workshops, learning events, kick offs).
- Help translate strategic people priorities into actionable roadmaps with financial clarity and measurable outcomes.