Sales Controller / Financial Controller (f/m/d)

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Responsibilities:

• Forecasting & Planning: You take ownership of the rolling sales forecasts across all entities, analyze deviations in revenue and profitability, and actively contribute to the annual planning process.
• Business Partnering: Acting as a trusted business partner to Sales and Management, you support the sales functions and entities from a commercial and financial perspective and derive meaningful recommendations for action.
• Reporting & Analysis: Your responsibilities include the preparation of monthly sales reports as well as ad-hoc, market and profitability analyses, including the presentation of relevant business developments to management.
• Pricing & Business Cases: You analyze customer, product and pricing structures with a focus on contribution margins and profitability, while also supporting quotations, business cases and investment decisions.
• Management Support: You prepare management presentations and decision-making materials in both German and English, translating complex topics into clear and actionable insights.
• Systems & Processes: Working within a heterogeneous systems environment, you actively contribute to the further development of sales reporting as well as existing reporting and controlling processes.
• Month-End & Stakeholder Management: You support the monthly reporting process across the entities, including accruals, provisions and claims management, while collaborating closely with international stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• Education: You hold a degree in Business Administration, Finance, Controlling or a comparable commercial qualification.
• Professional Experience: You bring several years of experience in Controlling, ideally with a strong focus on Sales, Commercial Finance or Business Partnering.
• Analytical Skills & Systems Affinity: You have a strong numerical and analytical mindset combined with a high affinity for data and systems; advanced Excel skills are essential.
• ERP & Reporting Tools: Ideally, you have experience working with ERP, BI or database systems and feel comfortable navigating complex reporting environments.
• Working Style: You work independently, in a structured and solution-oriented manner, proactively identify optimization potential and drive topics forward with a high level of ownership.
• Communication & Personality: You communicate confidently across different stakeholder levels, enjoy working collaboratively and stand out through your resilience, hands-on mentality and ability to present complex topics in a clear and concise way.
• Languages: You are fluent in German and have a good command of English, both written and spoken.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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