Controlling Manager - Value & Cost Controlling (m/f/d)

As a newly standalone business, we are adapting our Controlling organization with a strong focus on value creation.

As Controlling Manager – Value & Cost Controlling, you will build and lead a team that ensures financial transparency, drives performance management, and supports value‑oriented steering across our global business.

Your team owns three key areas: functional cost controlling, the financial steering of the company’s value creation initiatives, and the controlling of our Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs) and other external service providers during the first phase of our standalone journey.

As the direct finance partner for senior management on all cost and value creation topics, you play a key role in achieving the company’s financial targets.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Value & Cost Controlling team, foster a collaborative, business‑partner‑oriented culture, and ensure the delivery of accurate, timely, and decision‑relevant financial insights to senior management.
• Enhance reporting on primary cost controlling, implement new allocation models and drive process automation.
• Oversee the financial steering of value creation initiatives, ensuring transparency on financial impact, milestones, and progress of the company’s strategic initiatives portfolio and providing management with clear insights into status, risks, and opportunities.
• Steer the controlling of all Transitional Service Agreements (TSAs) and other external service providers, ensuring transparency on scope, costs, service levels, and timelines while supporting a smooth and timely transition into the target setup; always in close collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Design and implement a robust performance management framework, including KPI definition, target setting, variance analysis, and continuous monitoring of profitability and efficiency initiatives, and play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term planning cycles, ensuring consistent alignment between corporate strategy, financial planning, and execution.
• Partner closely with finance leadership, business units, and operational functions to identify performance improvement opportunities, support strategic and operational targets, and drive the standardization, automation, and digitalization of controlling processes to enable data‑driven decision‑making.

Qualifications

• University degree in finance, controlling, business administration, economics, or a related field; CFA or MBA is an advantage.
• 8–10+ years of professional experience in controlling, FP&A, or performance management within a multinational corporation, including several years in a leadership role.
• Strong analytical background, ideally complemented by experience in strategy, corporate or business development.
• Proven track record in cost controlling, profitability steering, and performance improvement; experience in service agreements or shared services controlling is a plus, as well as experience in the chemicals industry or in business transitions.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholders in a multicultural environment.
• Proficiency in SAP S/4HANA, BI and planning tools such as SAC, Power BI, or Anaplan, as well as advanced MS Office skills.
• Very good language skills in English.

Benefits

• Attractive salary with individual benefits such as performance‑related bonuses; company‑funded supplementary health insurance, accident insurance and pension related benefits.
• Wide range of local and global development and career opportunities for professional and personal development.
• Commitment to diversity: part of the Surventis strong inclusion culture with employee networks Women In Coatings, Color Pride and Culti Connect.
• Robust feedback culture integrated into our corporate culture through regular employee surveys and management feedback.
• Location perks: onsite fitness studio, physiotherapy practice, company doctors, company restaurant, bilingual daycare center and vacation program.

Diversity is our greatest strength!

Become a part of our winning formula for success and develop the future with us – a global team that embraces inclusion and equal opportunities irrespective of gender, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability or belief.

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