Business Controller (m/w/d)

Overview

This role involves Business Controlling in a laboratory environment. You will analyze financial, customer, and market data and derive actionable recommendations to support management decision-making.

The position is available in full-time employment with an unlimited contract and can be performed from home (Homeoffice).

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial, customer, and market data and develop well-founded recommendations for action
• Conduct market and potential analyses; identify opportunities, risks, and growth areas and translate them into recommendations
• Create meaningful reports, analyses, and presentations for management and support decision-making
• Work closely with local managing directors and relevant stakeholders to implement and further develop group-wide standards and processes
• Coordinate cross-country projects and ensure a consistent data basis
• Support the introduction and use of controlling tools; further develop existing steering instruments and KPIs
• Actively contribute to process optimization and improved data quality

Requirements

• Completed commercial degree, ideally with a focus on Controlling, Finance, or Business Economics, or an equivalent qualification
• First professional experience in controlling, finance, or a related field is beneficial; motivated career starters are also welcome
• Initial experience with Power Query and working with large data sets (Big Data)
• Very good knowledge of MS Excel, with confident use of PowerPoint and Outlook
• Strong communication skills, service orientation, and the ability to collaborate in intercultural teams
• Independent, business-minded working style with proactive contribution of ideas
• Ability to quickly get up to speed with new topics and maintain clarity even in complex contexts
• Very good German skills and good English skills, spoken and written

Preferred Qualifications

• First experience in controlling, finance, or a comparable environment

Compensation & Benefits

• Long-term and varied position in a global organization
• Open culture with flat hierarchies and short decision paths
• Intensive, individually tailored onboarding
• Regular evaluation meetings to support professional and personal development
• Flexible working hours and work-life balance
• 30 vacation days per year
• Attractive additional benefits such as JobRad, Corporate Benefits, and company pension scheme
• Subsidy for employer-provided savings plans (vermögenswirksame Leistungen), exclusively for employees of the organization
• Regular employee events such as summer parties and Christmas celebrations

Location

• Homeoffice (Germany)