Senior Product Controller (f/m/x)

Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH; Oberkochen; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

ZEISS in Oberkochen is seeking a Senior Product Controller to act as a Finance Business Partner for the product portfolio. You will lead product cost controlling, set target costs, and drive cost transparency across established and new products.

The role requires a master’s degree in Finance/Controlling and 3–5 years of experience in an international industrial setting. Strong SAP CO/FI, Power BI, and MS Office skills are essential.

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree in Finance/Controlling or equivalent.
• 3–5 years of professional experience in Finance/Controlling, ideally in an international industrial corporation.
• Proactive, collaborative mindset with strong communication and organizational skills.

Aufgaben

• Act as Finance Business Partner and sparring partner to business leaders for the product portfolio.
• Lead product cost controlling, define target costs, track adherence, and ensure cost transparency.
• Support business planning, validate and monitor plans, and present to management and external partners.
• Create and develop ad hoc and monthly reports to support product management with analyses and insights.
• Collaborate with accounting to ensure governance and compliance with international accounting standards.
• Contribute to digital finance initiatives and modern steering tools.

Kenntnisse

German language proficiency

English language proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

Master's degree in Finance/Controlling

Tools

Power BI

MS Office

SAP CO/FI

Jobbeschreibung

About ZEISS

ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Enabler for smaller, more powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips Working for tomorrow today. Around 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are produced using ZEISS technologies. As the centerpiece of every electronically controlled system, they have become an integral part of our everyday lives – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.

We are looking for a Senior Product Controller (f/m/x) to join our team in Oberkochen.

Your Role

As Finance Business Partner, you are an important sparring partner to business leaders, co-creating their strategy to shape the financial performance of their product portfolio.

• Consulting Commercial Topics: you provide strategic guidance to your product area on key commercial questions, identify economic opportunities, optimization potential, and risks, and translate this into decision-ready recommendations and actionable plans.
• Product Cost Controlling: you collaborate with product managers to define target costs, track adherence, and deliver cost transparency for established products and new product introductions.
• Business Planning: you create, validate, and monitor business plans and present them convincingly to our internal management and external partners.
• Performance Controlling & Better Insights: you create and further develop meaningful ad hoc and monthly reports to support our product management with clear analyses, comments, and impulses for business steering.
• Process Design & Governance: in close collaboration with our operational controlling team and accounting, you ensure adherence to internal commercial governance requirements and applicable international accounting standards. You clarify open questions and drive the structured resolution of process gaps.
• Digital Finance & Modern Steering Tools: you contribute and implement ideas to further develop Finance tools and processes, e.g. by leveraging digitalization.

Your Profile

• You have successfully completed a degree, preferably a master’s degree or diploma with a focus on Finance/Controlling and at least 3–5 years of professional experience in Finance/Controlling, ideally gained in an international industrial corporation.
• A proactive and collaborative professional who combines initiative, independence, strong organizational skills, teamwork, and accountability with clear, impactful communication tailored to diverse audiences to drive understanding and action.
• You have professional working proficiency in German and English, with negotiation-level fluency in both languages.
• Strong SAP (CO/FI) and MS Office skills, as well as proficiency with Power BI or business intelligence tools.
• You possess good knowledge of International Accounting Standards / International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Experience in structuring and executing cross-functional projects, preferably including experience with cost reduction projects.
• You have an affinity for, and ideally experience with, applying modern digital technologies in the Finance & Controlling area.

We are looking for people who want to make a difference.

What matters most

What matters most are your analytical skills, curiosity, willingness to take responsibility, and your interest in actively shaping the financial performance and future success of a leading high-tech organization.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.