IT Controller & Performance Manager

You coordinate IT budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes across cost centers, projects, contracts, and investment areas. You monitor actuals against budget and forecast, analyze deviations, and prepare recommendations for management
You create transparency on IT costs, including personnel costs, external services, software, hardware, cloud, licenses, projects, and vendor spend. You develop analyses on cost drivers, trends, allocations, and optimization opportunities
You use ERP and reporting systems to extract, validate, and analyze financial data related to cost centers, internal orders, projects, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, and commitments. You help ensure data quality and alignment with financial standards
You prepare regular IT financial performance reports, dashboards, and management presentations for IT leadership and stakeholders. You also support monthly and quarterly closing activities, investment tracking, and financial governance

You have a degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Information Systems, Economics, or a comparable field. You bring experience in financial controlling, IT controlling, business controlling, or performance management
You have strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, cost controlling, and management reporting. Ideally, you also understand IT cost structures, technology investments, software licensing, cloud costs, and project controlling
You are experienced with ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle). Knowledge of SAP FI/CO, MM, PS, BW, S/4HANA, or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau is an advantage
You combine analytical skills with a structured, detail-oriented, and proactive working style. You communicate clearly with IT, Finance, Procurement, and Controlling stakeholders and translate complex financial data into practical management insights
You share a "can do" attitude and are able to communicate in English

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