What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Business Unit Controlling - OE and Industrial position at MANN+HUMMEL?
Job Description
Main Tasks
Strategic Business Partner
Education
Main Tasks
Strategic Business Partner
- Act as a trusted financial co-pilot and strategic counterpart to Vice Presidents of Original Equipment and Industrial businesses
- Provide a holistic financial perspective integrating strategic, commercial, and operational drivers
- Proactively challenge and influence senior leadership decisions to ensure sustainable financial performance and value creation
- Drive business impact by linking financial steering to profitability, cash flow, and capital efficiency targets
- Drive entrepreneurial performance management using liquidity- and value-focused KPIs (e.g., NWC, FCF, ROCE)
- Lead and drive company-wide process optimization and digitalization initiatives to enhance efficiency and transparency
- Proactively design and improve financial processes in alignment with group standards, with strong focus on digitalization
- Build strong, trust-based relationships across a global and matrixed organization
- Own and ensure efficient financial processes, high data quality, and transparency
- Act as a forward-looking financial leader, delivering insightful KPI analysis, forecasts, and budgets to senior management
- Hold accountability for legal entity financial oversight, including:
- Financial performance and balance sheet reviews
- Profitability analysis by customer and product
- Costing, investment management, and capital allocation
- Financial, liquidity, and working capital planning, forecasting, and budgeting
- Ensure implementation and continuous compliance with internal control systems and financial governance standards
- Translate financial requirements from Headquarters into an effective regional finance strategy
- Identify performance gaps, define corrective actions jointly with business leadership, and track financial impact
- Lead, develop, and inspire the Business Unit Controlling organization, ensuring high performance, engagement, and continuous capability building
- Build a strong talent pipeline through active coaching, development, and succession planning
- Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and performance discipline
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and promote a “one-team” mindset in a global matrix environment
- Act as a role model, driving transparency, trust, and constructive challenge across the organization
- Communicates clearly and fosters collaboration across functions and regions
- Demonstrates ownership, courage, and speed in decision-making
- Develops talent and strengthens internal capability
- Supports digitalization and continuous learning across the organization
- Drive
- Entrepreneurship
- Future & Customer Centricity
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in finance/controlling
- Proven leadership experience with direct people management responsibility
- Strong background in a global, matrixed, and multicultural organization
- Strong financial acumen with proven financial performance management and reporting capabilities
- Advanced SAP expertise
- Strong analytical and business partnering skills
- Excellent communication and influencing capabilities
- Proven ability to drive performance and challenge senior stakeholders
- Proficiency in MS Office, including advanced Excel
- Willingness to travel (approx. 10%)
- Multilingual capabilities (e.g., English/Spanish, English/Portuguese, or English/German)