Senior Performance Controller

• Innomotics GmbH
• JobID: 7057
• Location: Nürnberg
• Department: IN FP&A CON
• Job Grade: ERA collective bargaining agreement
• Mode of Employment: full-time

We are looking for a senior performance controller /f/m/d) to join our team at Innomotics.

• The Industry-Leader of Motors and Drives
• Innomotics is an industry-leading supplier of motors and large drive systems. With a trusted legacy of more than 150 years of engineering expertise, our products power all of the world's most essential industries. Today, we are bringing the #EnergyTransition to life with a portfolio that enables our customers to boost energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gases, and minimize the carbon footprints of plants.

• Our Most Powerful Engine: Our People
• We are a team of more than 15,000 dedicated experts, doers, innovators. For us, engineering the future means keeping businesses in motion. As a global player operating with the spirit and speed of a mid-sized champion, the future holds unlimited opportunities for us. If you share our bold mindset to be best-in-class, we want you IN.

• Your Future Role
• The Senior Performance Controller supports the global financial steering and performance management of Innomotics, a EUR 3 billion international industrial company. The role provides transparent, forward-looking management insights, ensures robust planning and reporting processes, and acts as a key finance business partner to divisions, central functions and senior management.
• •Lead and continuously improve global management reporting, performance analysis and executive decision support.
• •Coordinate and challenge general forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring consistency, quality and timely delivery.
• •Act as the central controlling interface to divisions for month-end closing (Ultimo), forecast cycles and performance reviews.
• •Develop and maintain standards for profit bridge analyses, enabling transparent explanations of profitability developments and key value drivers.
• •Own global working-capital reporting and analysis, including cash-conversion drivers, risks, opportunities and improvement actions.
• •Ensure alignment with Accounting, Treasury and Tax on financial reporting, accounting impacts, cash flow, liquidity, financing and tax-related topics.
• •Support global cash-flow and liquidity planning, including cash-flow forecasting, scenario analysis and management recommendations.
• •Take ownership of the business requirements and governance for key management-reporting tools, including Tagetik, standard reports and dashboards.
• •Define and maintain relevant management KPIs, report content, calculation logic, reporting dimensions and drill-down requirements in cooperation with Finance, IT and reporting-tool owners.
• •Ensure that reports and dashboards provide a clear, consistent and management-oriented view of performance across relevant dimensions, such as division, region, product portfolio, customer, project or legal entity.
• •Support the ongoing enhancement, standardization and adoption of reporting tools, dashboards and self-service reporting solutions; technical development and dashboard design are performed by the relevant specialist teams.
• •Identify opportunities to use AI-enabled analytics, automation and intelligent reporting to improve reporting efficiency, analytical quality and decision support.
• •Deliver high-quality ad-hoc reporting, analyses, business cases and management presentations for strategic and operational decisions.

• Your Profile
• •University degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Economics or similar
• •More than 10 years of professional experience in controlling, FP&A, business finance or performance management.
• •At least 3 years of experience in a Senior Performance Controlling role or a comparable global/corporate controlling position.
• •Strong expertise in management reporting, planning, forecasting, variance analysis and financial performance steering.
• •Sound accounting knowledge, including a strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and the interface between management reporting and statutory financial reporting.
• •Practical experience with management-reporting systems, planning/consolidation tools and dashboard solutions; Tagetik experience or strong Tagetik knowledge is preferred.
• •Experience defining KPI requirements, reporting structures and data dimensions for dashboards and management reports.
• •Interest in, or practical exposure to, AI applications in financial analysis, reporting, forecasting or process automation is an advantage.
• •Proven business understanding in industrial, manufacturing, electrification, automation, drives, energy or comparable technology-oriented industries.
• •Experience working with international divisions and within a global matrix organization.
• •Advanced analytical, financial modelling and presentation skills; strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• •Fluent in German and English; additional languages are an advantage.

• Personal Profile
• •Structured, analytical and detail-oriented, with a clear focus on material business drivers.
• •Digitally minded, with an interest in modern reporting, KPI governance, automation and AI-enabled Finance solutions.
• •Confident communicator and constructive challenger with strong stakeholder-management skills.
• •High ownership, integrity and resilience in a dynamic, deadline-driven global environment.
• •Collaborative team player who can effectively connect divisions, central Finance functions, IT and senior management.

• What's IN it for you (Our Benefits)
• •Compensation according to the applicable collective agreements of the metal and electrical industry
• •30 days of vacation per calendar year
• •Flexible working models
• •Pension benefits
• •Development opportunities
• •Health care offerings
• •Childcare subsidy
• •Employer subsidy for "Deutschlandticket"
• •Canteens with lower prices for employees
• •Access to a benefits portal with attractive employee offers

• Ready to power the future with us? Join Innomotics and start making a difference now. #TeamInnomotics #JoinReliableMotion
• Innomotics is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
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