Senior Strategy Controller (all genders)

Merck Group; Darmstadt; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Merck Group in Germany is seeking a qualified professional to join the Group Controlling Planning & Forecasting team. You will lead and manage the Global Annual Top-Down Target Setting and contribute to strategic planning, providing financial decision support to Group Executive Management.

The role requires a degree in Business Administration or Economics, 3-5 years in controlling, strong analytical skills, and proficiency with financial modeling, scenario analysis, and AI-enabled forecasting.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in Business Administration, Economics, or equivalent.
• 3–5 years' experience in Controlling or related finance.
• Experience with financial modeling and value-based resource allocation.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end financial KPIs across planning and target-setting.
• Develop underlying financial models to support plans.
• Drive value-based resource allocation and risk scenarios.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to derive business insights.
• Manage finance projects and harmonize global processes.
• Liaise with function/business counterparts to share best practices.

Kenntnisse

Analytical mindset

Forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Financial modeling

Strategic planning

Ausbildung

Degree in Business Administration / Economics

Tools

Excel

Data visualization tools

Jobbeschreibung

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Your Role

You will be integral part of the Group Controlling Planning & Forecasting team with key responsibility to lead and manage the Group’s Global Annual Top-Down Target Setting as well as Strategic Planning process. You prepare in-depth analysis on all relevant financial steering KPIs for the Group and provide financial decision support to Group Executive Management on a wide scope of functional and strategic matters impacting the achievement of the Group’s financial objectives including but not limited to proposals for value-based resource allocation, underlying risk assessments and scenario modelling.

Your Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of key financial steering KPIs across the Group's strategic planning and target-setting processes including designing and development of underlying financial model with the aim to deliver consistent, ambitious and reliable plans
• Investigating Group/Sector financial results to identify performance gaps, checking progress towards target achievement and recommending gap closing actions
• Driving decision making through value-based resource allocation, underlying risk assessments and scenario modelling
• Engagement with Function/Business Stakeholders to build insight into key business drivers and tactics to identify opportunities
• Manage major group finance projects by ensuring focus on project objectives, driving collaboration across cross-functional team and communicating of conclusions and decisions
• Liaises with Function/Business counterparts, capturing best practices and aligning on standard, harmonized global processes

Who You Are

• You have a degree in Business Administration / Economics or equivalent
• You have min. 3-5 years experience in Controlling or related finance departments
• You have experience in financial modeling and value-based resource allocation
• You have an analytical mindset including high interest in translating data analysis into tangible business recommendations
• You embrace digital technologies and AI-driven solutions to enhance forecasting accuracy, scenario modelling and process efficiency.
• You have excellent communication capabilities to interact with stakeholders and to create networks across departments
• You have strong understanding and application of financial principles, concepts, practices and standards
• You are proactive in continuously challenge the status quo to find better ways of working
• You are highly motivated, engaged and self-organized
• You are confident in interacting with senior leadership
• You are fluent in English. Other languages would be an asset (no requirement)

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