Business Unit Controller - Corn (m/f/d)

Are you ready to take on a key position at the core of our business? We are looking for a Business Unit Controller – Corn (m/f/d) to join KWS SAAT and play a vital role with our leadership team at the headquarters in Einbeck (Lower Saxony/Germany). This is a full-time and permanent position.

In this position, you will act not only as a strategic but also as an operational partner and financial co-pilot, driving business performance, ensuring financial transparency, and supporting our ongoing growth and innovation journey.

Your Responsibilities

• Serve as a proactive partner to the Business Unit (BU) management, supporting both strategic steering and operational excellence.
• Translate the BU strategy into concrete, actionable measures, ensuring effective implementation and progress tracking.
• Lead and coordinate the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across the Business Unit, in close collaboration with Regional and Country Heads, Global Controlling, and Global Finance.
• Support the management team with financial insights, performance analyses, and scenario modeling to enable sound decision-making.
• Contribute to organizational development, including the implementation of new business models and process improvements.
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards while fostering agility and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Relevant university degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Customer-oriented mindset (internal and external) with strong communication and intercultural skills.
• Proven professional experience in international Controlling or a similar finance role.
• Strong background in Financial Controlling, with hands-on experience in ERP systems (SAP), proficient use of Excel, and familiarity with other tools such as Power BI.
• Fluent English skills (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, and derive meaningful conclusions from complex data.
• Agile, accountable, and self-driven – someone who takes initiative and enjoys making an impact.

• An exceptionally interesting and varied job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute to innovative ideas.
• Working in an international, highly motivated, and dynamic team
• Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working
• As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision – a culture that is also lived out in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• Following the motto: \“Make yourself grow!\“ we promote individual professional and personal development.
• We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and holiday pay, childcare allowance, JobRad.