Wind Energy Business Controller - 15-Month Contract

Vattenfall GmbH; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vattenfall seeks a highly motivated Business Controller to join BA Wind on a 15-month fixed-term contract. You will strengthen reporting and planning, delivering high-quality financial data and insights across Wind to support decisions. Close collaboration with business units and group functions is essential.

You will drive improvements in controlling processes and systems, ensure data quality, and provide financial input for strategic decisions in a fast-evolving European energy landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in controlling, economics, accounting or finance.
• 5+ year experience with financial reporting, planning, forecasting, budgeting, or performance management.
• Comfortable working with financial systems (S4HANA, IBM TM1, Cognos Controller), Power BI, Excel, and structured datasets.
• Wind/energy sector experience is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business planning activities, with a primary focus on Power BI reporting and analytics.
• Review and validate financial data, KPIs, calculations, master data and reporting inputs/outputs.
• Identify deviations, inconsistencies, data quality issues, and reporting improvement needs, and agree required actions with the Product Owner where system changes are required.
• Provide business input to the Product Owner on reporting priorities, requirements, business context, key contacts and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare analysis, follow-up reports, and material for controller or business performance discussions.
• Contribute to improvements in reporting processes, templates, tools, and controlling standards.
• Act as the first point of contact for reporting content questions, data validation and business interpretation.

Skills

Power BI

Forecasting

Budgeting

Stakeholder mgmt

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance

Tools

S4HANA

IBM TM1

Cognos Controller

Excel

Job description

Vattenfall seeks a highly motivated Business Controller to join BA Wind on a 15-month fixed-term contract. You will strengthen reporting and planning, delivering high-quality financial data and insights across Wind to support decisions. Close collaboration with business units and group functions is essential.

You will drive improvements in controlling processes and systems, ensure data quality, and provide financial input for strategic decisions in a fast-evolving European energy landscape.