What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Controller position at Brose Sitech Group?
Your tasks:
- Own financial transparency for assigned customer programs, including revenue, material cost, tooling, R&D, CapEx, margin and lifecycle profitability
- Prepare and maintain project business cases, RFQ calculations, acquisition calculations and profitability models
- Maintain BOM-based cost models, cost simulations and commercial assumptions used for customer pricing
- Support OEM customer negotiations with cost-breakdown packages, financial arguments and scenario analyses
- Evaluate financial impact of engineering changes, customer change requests, volume changes, scope changes and timing changes
- Track project budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments and risks/opportunities
- Act as commercial sparring partner for Program Management, Sales, Engineering, Purchasing, Operations and Finance
- Ensure consistency of project data in SAP / ERP and controlling systems
Your qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering or related field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in project controlling, program controlling, commercial controlling, finance or management accounting
- Experience in manufacturing, automotive, industrial or engineering-driven environment
- Strong knowledge of business cases, RFQs, product costing, BOM cost logic, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
- Advanced Excel and SAP / ERP experience
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
Preferred:
- Tier-1 / Tier -2 automotive supplier experience
- OEM cost-breakdown experience, including VDA, A2Mac1 or similar cost-transparency standards
- Experience supporting customer negotiations, VA/VE activities, engineering changes or profitability recovery
We offer
- Stable employment and interesting, challenging work, contact with new technologies
- Individual opportunities for professional development
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401(k)
- High-quality medical plan options
- Health, dental and vision plans
- Relocation package