Controlling Professional (m/f/d)

KWS SAAT SE; Einbeck; Hybrid; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

KWS SAAT SE is seeking a Controlling Professional to enhance their production controlling processes. This full-time role involves cost analysis, budgeting support, and collaboration with global teams. Ideal candidates hold a Master's degree and have a strong analytical background, ready to contribute to a family-run company focused on sustainability and team spirit.

Leistungen

Flexible working hours

Company pension scheme

Christmas and holiday bonuses

Subsidized canteen

Job bike and job ticket option

Qualifikationen

• First professional experience in production controlling or finance is preferred.
• Fluent in both English and German (written and spoken).
• Structured, self-motivated, and organized individual.

Aufgaben

• Collect and analyze production costs and conduct variance analysis.
• Support business partners in budgeting and forecasting.
• Prepare WIP booking and manage inventory during quarterly closings.

Kenntnisse

IT literacy in MS Excel

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in economics or business administration

Tools

SAP R3

S4 Hana

Business Warehouse

Jobbeschreibung

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Legal Entity: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (0001)

Contract Type: Regular

Is Full Time?: Yes

Onsite/ Remote: Hybrid Working Within Country

Job ID: 15336

Field of Work: Controlling

Location:

Einbeck, Lower Saxony, DE

Legal Entity: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA (0001)

Contract Type: Regular

Is Full Time?: Yes

Onsite/ Remote: Hybrid Working Within Country

Job ID: 15336

You’ve taken your first steps in controlling—now let’s grow together.

At KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA we are excited to meet people like you - early-career professionals who are ready to dive deeper into controlling and want to make a real impact.

We are an independent, sustainable company with international reach and strong local roots — and above all, we believe in closeness, team spirit and staying close to what matters.

In this role as our new Controlling Professional (m/f/d)you will focus on steering production controlling processes, calculating production costs and creating meaningful analyses and accurate reports that bring clarity and support smart decision-making. You will also collaborate closely with colleagues around the world—because teamwork here truly knows no borders.

This is a permanent position and available on a full-time basis. The start date is asap.

The place of work is at our HQ in Einbeck, Lower Saxony.

Your key responsibilities:

• Cost controlling: collection and analysis of production costs, development of standard costs, conduction of variance analysis and identification cost saving opportunities
• Budgeting & Forecasting: support the Business Partners Controlling with COGM calculation as well as the steering collection of production details
• Closings: preparation of WIP booking, calculation of COGS by crop for quarterly closing, and inventory management (limited scope)
• Master data: maintenance of master data in accordance with established steering models
• Collaboration and communication: collaborating with international production and controlling colleagues to ensure cost control governance

Your profile:

• Master’s degree in economics, business administration, agribusiness or comparable
• First professional experience in (production) controlling and/or finance – ideally in an international environment or having worked as an intern / working student in the field of controlling or finance
• Proven IT literacy in MS Excel - having worked with SAP R3, S4 Hana, Business Warehouse is an asset
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Structured, self-motivated and self-organized individual
• Able to drive goal achievements
• Committed team player
• Fluent in both English and German (written and spoken)
• Ideal opportunity to build your career within a unique organization with big ambitions
• As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere
• According to our slogan “Make yourself grow!”: we support your professional and personal development and succession opportunities
• Fantastic colleagues in a motivated team
• Excellent work equipment, a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen, direct train connection and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location
• Family-friendly working environment: flexible working hours, company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares and a job bike and job ticket option

If that sounds like you then you’ll fit right in. Join us and help shape the future of controlling—together. Please apply online.

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KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: www.kws.com/career . Follow us on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/ .

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