Company Description

Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2024, Continental generated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.

Guided by the vision of being the customer's first choice for material-driven solutions, the ContiTech group sector focuses on development competence and material expertise for products and systems made of rubber, plastics, metal, and fabrics. These can also be equipped with electronic components in order to optimize them functionally for individual services. ContiTech's industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction, and surfaces. In addition, ContiTech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.

About Original Equipment Solutions:

With more than 17.000 employees and around 2bn€ sales, present in 15 countries with 35 locations and tech centers – OESL is a global player in the automotive sector with extended material competence in rubber, plastic, and metal, serving all major OEM’s and commercial vehicle customers’ needs with millions of parts in high quality.

Job Description

These tasks await you: 

• Lead controlling activities for the plant and support the strategic and operative planning of the plant
• Execute monthly closing and reporting according to standards
• Prepare standard reports to plant and business management and review monthly results (e.g. P&L)
• Prepare budget and forecasts based on production volumes
• Ensure that the financial goals are met and implement and conduct activities according to the budget established
• Support continuous improvement activities 
• Interface to plant, segment, and BA functions in order to gather local controlling requirements and demands and other feedback 
• Participate in and steer local controlling related projects
• Ensure and apply Continental finance and accounting guidelines and ensure implementation and conformity with all Continental controlling systems, tools, standards and processes with high data quality and transparency
• Ensure production, investment and personnel controlling according to standards (e.g. standard costs calculation, plant variation analysis, cost center controlling)
• Handling special tasks and ad-hoc analyses
• Execution of upcoming special projects (e.g., conversion of daily evaluations to PowerBI, restructuring of cost centers, harmonization of reporting, etc.)

Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in business administration, accounting, finance, controlling or related discipline (depending on plant size)
• Many years of professional experience in various finance and controlling functions
• Cross-functional experience e.g. in production, supply chain, quality or CBS preferred
• Initial experience in rubber and plastic production processes
• Many years in a leadership position, preferably in operational units with functional and disciplinary responsibility for other individuals
• Proficient in MS Office programs, especially Excel
• Solid knowledge of SAP R/3 CO
• Familiarity with MS PowerBI
• Fluent English and German language skills in written and spoken
• Experience in working with international teams on production topics and understanding of foreign cultures
• Good communications skills

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

• Training opportunities
• Mobile and flexible working models
• Sabbaticals
• and much more...

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