Senior Corporate Business Controller in Düsseldorf

At Envalior, we believe that innovation and creativity stem from a dynamic workplace. Since our inception in 2023, we've been on a mission to revolutionize the global engineering materials industry, blending over 100 years of expertise from DSM Engineering Materials and LANXESS High Performance Materials into something truly extraordinary.

Purpose Of The Position

Ensure timely and accurate financial management reporting to provide leadership with the insights needed for effective strategic business decision-making. Proactively engage with the Finance Leadership Team and the CFO to review reports and analyses, supporting informed and forward-looking financial strategies. Safeguard the integrity and efficiency of financial reporting by ensuring compliance with JV accounting principles (IFRS), and by delivering complete and accurate reports in line with Group-defined deadlines. Serve as the key point of expertise for financial forecasting models and datasets, advising the organization on the development, interpretation, and strategic use of financial projection.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction by leading management reporting and consolidation processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and high-quality insights for decision-making
• Design and implement the group management reporting roadmap, aligning reporting practices with business needs and long-term strategic goals
• Define and maintain relevant KPIs and performance measures to support consistent performance monitoring across the group
• Lead and optimize the forecasting process, ensuring management has timely and actionable reports to effectively steer the business
• Prepare monthly management reports and board reporting packages, delivering clear, concise, and value-adding insights
• Monitor business performance and KPI progress, including the definition of targets and continuous performance tracking
• Coordinate data gathering from all controlling domains (divisions, operations and commercial controlling) to ensure complete and reliable inputs for consolidated division reporting
• Develop and implement group-wide directives, standards, and processes to ensure consistency and compliance in reporting and consolidation
• Translate business processes into an accurate consolidation and reporting structure, ensuring global alignment and continuous optimization
• Analyze complex reporting data and convert it into meaningful, actionable information for management, proactively initiating and distributing steering insights
• Enable the business with tools and processes for efficient forecasting, and coordinate key planning cycles including Budget, long-term Business Plans, RAF, and monthly forecast updates. Operate effectively in a dynamic, multi-stakeholder environment, engaging with senior leaders across the organization and influencing through conviction, inspiration, and strong relationship-building to foster a constructive and collaborative climate
• Calculate plant- and material-level mark- ups to translate Envalior consolidated margins into Division-level managerial margins, enabling accurate and timely day-to-day margin reporting
• Determine monthly mark-up totals per Product Line and allocate the resulting managerial margins into the Division P&L across SAP, BW, and Tagetik, ensuring consistency and transparency in financial performance reporting.

Stakeholder Management

Business Management & Business Controllers

Act as a strategic business partner by ensuring internal stakeholders receive accurate, timely, and relevant management information required to run and steer the business effectively.

VP Finance / CFO / Tax / Treasury / IT

Maintain strong partnerships with senior Finance and corporate functions, supporting cross-functional alignment, strategic decision-making, and integrated financial planning.

Commercial Controlling Team

Collaborate closely on topline developments, ensuring transparency and consistency in revenue, pricing, and margin insights.

Financial Control Teams

Sustain effective working relationships to ensure robust and accurate actuals reporting, aligning actuals with management reporting and consolidation requirements.

Operations Controlling Teams

Coordinate on gross margin and OPEX developments, ensuring operational performance is fully reflected in financial steering information.

External Consultants

Manage productive relationships with consultants providing expertise or project support in the financial control domain, ensuring smooth collaboration and effective delivery of project outcomes.

Potential Challenges

• Building a Corporate Business Control Team in a highly dynamic environment
• Shape and develop a high-performing reporting organization by actively contributing to the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of processes, reporting standards, and new financial tooling
• Lead the integration of former HPM and DEM finance teams at both global and country levels, ensuring alignment of structures, processes, roles, and ways of working across the newly combined organization
• Drive the implementation of the new Management Reporting Roadmap, ensuring consistency, transparency, and scalability of reporting across the Group
• Implement an enhanced forecasting process, including the introduction of new tooling, standardized timelines, clear accountabilities, and streamlined workflows to support reliable and actionable forward-looking insights
• Operate effectively in an environment where foundational processes are not yet fully established, navigating challenges around process ownership, data definitions, and information availability. Actively contribute to building clarity, improving data quality, and driving alignment across stakeholders

The role has a dual impact

Strategic Business Partnering

Act as a key partner to the business by ensuring the availability of high-quality, relevant, and actionable information - both historical and forward-looking. This enables leadership to steer the organization effectively, make informed strategic decisions, and achieve long-term business objectives.

Finance Compliance & Reporting Integrity

Safeguard the organization's ability to meet all internal financial and business reporting obligations. Ensure reporting accuracy, completeness, and consistency by adhering to Group standards, accounting principles, and established reporting frameworks. Maintain a reliable reporting environment that supports sound governance and financial transparency.

Requirements

• Holds a Bachelor's or Master's degree, ideally in accounting or finance, demonstrating a strong academic foundation that is complemented by at least 10 years of professional experience in the field, which showcases a deep understanding of industry practices and standards
• Is driven, self-motivated, and excited to take ownership of their work, embodying a proactive approach that translates vision into tangible results and consistently striving for excellence in their contributions
• Possesses robust conceptual skills that empower you to grasp and simplify complex challenges, enabling you to navigate intricate scenarios with ease and to articulate solutions clearly and effectively
• Initiates innovative solutions that add significant value to our operations, showcasing a creative mindset that seeks to identify opportunities for improvement and drive impactful change within the organization
• Functions well as a team player, demonstrating eagerness to collaborate and an openness to change management, particularly when working in a dynamic international setting where adaptability and cultural sensitivity are paramount

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Work-Life Balance & Flexibility
• Training & Development Opportunities
• Diversity & Inclusion

Envalior is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmerative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at Talent.Acquisition@Envalior.com.

OUR HERITAGE

With a combined heritage of over 100 years, Envalior brings together two established global materials players: DSM Engineering Materials and LANXESS High Performance Materials. Our unique combined portfolio of longstanding material-, application-, and design expertise enables our customers to develop and launch sustainable future-proof designs. Envalior is the brand new materials powerhouse that was Launched in early 2023.

We aim to be a global leader in sustainable and high-performance engineering materials. We imagine the future by shaping the world of today and tomorrow. We're conscious that this is both a privilege and a responsibility - so, when we imagine the future, we're guided by our key values to help us create a better world.