Controlling Manager Central Europe Cluster (m/f/d)
Your responsibilities
- Guide a geographically dispersed team of six controllers.
- Develop capabilities, encourage accountability, and promote proactive business partnering.
- Build strong working relationships across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Country Management.
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, and FP&A processes.
- Support shorter reporting cycles and more dynamic forecasting approaches.
- Collaborate closely with Accounting and the Shared Service Center to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Identify improvement opportunities and provide well-grounded insights to challenge and support the business.
- Contribute to strategic decisions across pricing, commercial models, margin management, and investments.
- Stay close to both direct and distributor markets with sound financial analysis.
- Provide ad hoc insights that support high quality decision-making across the cluster.
- Harmonize controlling practices across countries.
- Strengthen alignment between commercial and operational teams.
- Support the enhancement of systems including SAP (FI/CO/SD), Salesforce, and Tableau.
Our requirements
- A Master’s degree, MBA, or equivalent in business administration.
- 5+ years of controlling experience, ideally in a distribution or international environment.
- 3+ years of leadership experience, including remote team management.
- Proven experience as a business partner to senior stakeholders.
- A proactive and structured approach with strong analytical skills.
- Ability to challenge constructively and translate financials into actionable insight including strong communication skills and a collaborative attitude.
- Solid SAP (FI/CO/SD) knowledge.
- Fluent in English
- German, French or Polish would be a plus
- Willingness to travel across Central Europe ~20%.
What we offer
- Attractive salary package (basic salary + annual bonus).
- Opportunity for professional growth and shaping the organization.
- Challenging and International environment.
- Indefinite contract (after probation period)
- Professional trainings , also in our in-house training centre Merieux University in France.
As Central Europe Controlling Manager, you will be a key contributor to the cluster’s financial performance.
If you’re solution oriented, commercially aware, and enthusiastic about supporting business growth, you will thrive in this role.
bioMérieux welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, physical characteristics, social origin, disability, union membership, religion, family status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or any unlawful criterion under applicable law. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and avoiding discrimination.