Hapag-Lloyd AG

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Director (m/f/d) Financial Planning

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Hapag-Lloyd's global liner shipping business is modernizing its financial planning and monthly closing across a large, enterprise platform (>600 users, multiple use cases).

While moving to the cloud, we introduce new controlling concepts and steering hierarchies, and are impacted by the digital transformation of adjacent systems (FIS, S/4HANA, central DWH EDWARD). Your task is to drive the robust, user-centric transformation of our financial planning and result platform making controlling data reliable, interoperable across BI tools, and AI-ready. With your people and process mindset, you lead a diverse team, listen to the Future Controller’s needs and partner with Controlling Systems and Data Analytics and the central IT and Analytics (DIA) functions to make this happen.

  • Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team, driving the transformation from Business Intelligence to modern software engineering through clear feedback and a compelling growth vision.
  • Drive the transformation of planning, forecasting, budgeting, and closing processes by implementing new business logic, simplifying workflows, and increasing automation, transparency, and data quality.
  • Own and govern the enterprise planning platform (ideally BOARD) and its integration with SAP S/4 HANA, FIS, and the central DWH, ensuring robust data models, ETL processes, and user-centric solutions.
  • Influence and align stakeholders across Business, IT, Analytics, and Controlling, fostering effective collaboration and driving decisions through transparent communication of trade-offs.
  • Act as a trusted partner to Controllers and business stakeholders, translating business needs into intuitive system capabilities while challenging and improving existing ways of working.
  • Manage the platform as a strategic product, balancing innovation with simplicity and ensuring sustainable, scalable, and business-oriented solutions.
  • Modernize and professionalize the platform by establishing engineering best practices, including coding standards, documentation, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and release management.
  • Design and manage scalable data architectures, interfaces, and cloud-based data pipelines, ensuring data quality, security, governance, lineage, and cost-efficient operations.
  • University degree in business, finance, logistics, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Proven experience leading international, diverse teams; excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Customer-centric mindset; excellent listening and consulting skills; ability to distill complex requirements into clear product increments
  • Familiarity with planning/BI tools (e.g. BOARD, SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Qlik, PowerBI), experience with modern cloud data platforms like Databricks preferred
  • Solid background in enterprise financial planning platforms and BI/analytics; experience with transformations involving SAP S/4 HANA and data warehouses is a plus
  • Strong understanding of ETL, data modelling, DevOps, and software engineering best practices for governance and coaching (hands-on coding not primary)
  • Analytical and strategic mindset; ability to balance innovation with simplicity and maintainability; resilience under change
  • Fluent English (written and spoken); German is a plus
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