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A global industrial company is seeking a Senior Controller & Commercial Manager to serve as a finance partner across various regions. This role will involve managing financial data analysis, establishing standards for contract reviews, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in commercial management and leadership. The position offers a dynamic work environment and flexible working arrangements in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Accelleron Industries AG — Vacancy Date: 03.12.2025 — Location: 5400 Baden (AG) — Workload: 80%–100% — Employment: Permanent
In this role you serve as a trusted finance and commercial partner for the Service Division across your assigned geographies and global topic areas. You ensure full performance transparency and safeguard financial integrity across all reporting and decision processes.
You support effective business steering by analysing and interpreting financial data, evaluating strategic and operational alternatives, and recommending the most suitable solutions. You strengthen actuals and forward‑looking analytics by improving existing tools and defining new data analysis and visualisation requirements that support financial and commercial transparency and facilitate high‑quality business decisions.
You act as the line manager for Country Finance Managers in your allocated countries and guide them in achieving consistent standards and high‑quality output. You are responsible for establishing, maintaining and consistently enhancing global standards for risk, contract and business reviews and ensuring their practical adoption.
The ideal candidate brings a proven track record in handling global commercial matters, including POC contracts and complex financial aspects. In a fast‑paced industrial background they have strong business‑partnering skills, confidently engage with senior leaders, provide clear financial insights, challenge the status quo, and proactively support fast decision‑making.
Strategy: Serve as business partner to local and division senior leaders, contribute to yearly Business Review Meetings to drive local business performance and support global strategy.
Leadership: Line Manager of Country Finance Managers for allocated geographies.
Business planning: Manage yearly budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes for allocated countries, translate strategy into business plans, establish ambitious and measurable targets, evaluate financial implications of decisions, build scenarios, and initiate corrective actions.
Performance management & decision support: Monitor and analyse financial performance across multiple dimensions and periods (vs. Budget, Forecast, previous periods), deliver insights to support optimal decision‑making at global/local level, drive financial transparency, cost‑structure optimisation, productivity improvements, and capital efficiency to maximise value creation, issue early warnings of significant deviations, and drive corrective actions.
Commercial and risk management: Ensure risk and contract reviews in allocated countries are executed in line with global policies, act as deputy owner of the global risk and contract review processes, hold commercial ownership of the tender phase with responsibility for financial, commercial and tax reviews, shape contractual agreements, advise on entitlements that protect cash flow and margins, and ensure compliance with finance, business, trade compliance and export control requirements.
Financial reporting: Ensure on‑time provision of high‑quality financial data in line with Group accounting and reporting principles (US‑GAAP) for allocated countries, support the semi‑annual assurance letter process respecting Group Controlling guidelines.
Accounting and statutory reporting: Ensure CFMs reporting to them take necessary actions to guarantee timely preparation and filing of accurate statutory financial statements.
Tax compliance & customs: Hold CFMs reporting to them accountable to accurately prepare and file tax returns in line with Group tax policies and local/international tax regulations while respecting local customs regulations.
Compliance & audits: Support allocated CFMs to coordinate proactive external financial and tax audits, facilitate internal audits and act as Secretary to the local Board of Directors.
FX and credit lines: Own the global commercial value flows including FX exposure and derive suitable mitigation actions; own the credit risk management process within the Service Division, including documentation, training and monitoring responsibilities.
Other: Finance project manager within Service Division, provide financial and commercial training to Service Division staff to promote commercial awareness, active participation at the annual Global Finance Week.
University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or Economics or globally recognized professional qualification in these fields.
Minimum 4 years of leadership experience, ideally internationally and remotely.
Minimum 7 years of work experience in commercial management, especially commercial project controlling (various medium‑sized projects managed in parallel).
Minimum 4 years of work experience in Business Controlling or similar functions.
Sound knowledge in contractual and legal matters related to customer contracts.
Experienced to collaborate and succeed in an international work environment.
Service/delivery oriented and with a strong business mindset.
Self‑motivated with a strong commitment to quality.
Excellent organization skills to handle multiple tasks in a fast‑paced environment, as well as within tight deadlines.
A collaborative, team‑oriented personality with the ability to drive change and foster cooperation.
Experienced in tool and process implementations.
High proficiency in MS Excel and BW. SAC, Power BI, Power Query and S4H experience is highly welcome.
Understanding of data structures with ability to leverage AI and other tools to automate processes.
Fluent in English.
Attractive compensation.
International and dynamic work environment.
Flexible working model and remote work policy.
Training offerings in‑house.
Office easily reachable due to excellent public transportation links.
Global parental leave program.
Employee assistance program.
Canteen.
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