Group Controlling Subject Matter Expert

**Why join the** Controlling**department?**

As the driving force behind our excellence and innovation, the Finance & Strategy function is at the heart of our operations. We are a dynamic international team dedicated to creating sustainable value and driving financial success with precision and strategic vision.

By joining our Finance and Strategy team, you will gain valuable experience in supporting the growth and performance of the Hager Group worldwide. You’ll integrate financial best practices to optimize resource management while ensuring transparency and integrity, all while working on growth initiatives that drive the company’s success.

In the Finance & Strategy Department, we are shaping tomorrow’s electrical world. You can too, Join us

As a **Group Controlling Subject Matter Expert (M/F/d) for Material Consumption/Stocks/Product Costing/CoGS** you will report to Integrated Controlling Services (ICS) Director in the Controlling department based in **Blieskastel** or **Obernai** for a **permanent**contract.

**Your mission**

Bringing more value to the Business, in a cost-efficient way, is our ambition as Controlling Function. To achieve this ambition, Controlling department continues its Transformation Journey, which is based on 3 pillars: Organisation, Planning & Forecasting, Analytics & Digitalisation.

As **Group Controlling Subject Matter Expert (SME) (M/F/d) for Material Consumption/Stocks/Product Costing/CoGS**, with two peers holding the same position (3 team members), the main typologies of activities are:

- ** Govern the standards** by defining methods, tools and processes
- ** Develop useful tools** supporting the activities and offering centralisation opportunities
- ** Orchestrate**, by scheduling and coordinating the recurring processes which involve local controllers
- ** Analyse** the outcome
- ** Help and train**: be the expert, the technical referent, in a user-oriented way

Reporting to the Integrated Controlling Services (ICS) Director, your main topics are the following:

- About Material Consumption: Central analysis of local material consumptions, forecast of Group material consumption (contribution)
- About Stocks: Local stocks depreciation consolidation, potential centralization of local stocks closing (Balance Sheet)
- About Product Costing: Central mass analysis of product costing technical errors, central analysis of product costing evolutions
- About Cost-of-Goods-Sold (CoGS) variance-to-standard: Central supervision of necessary activities to be performed and analyses of the outcome, advancing the technic and meaningfulness of the KPIs

**Your profile**
- Bachelor or Master´s degree or equivalent academic qualification
- At least 5 years of experiences in Controlling, ideally both in a local operational role (preferably in Industry) and in a Group role, in an international context
- Hunger for developing/setting up and energy to push through
- Assertiveness
- Ability to work in a transversal mode with collaboration & communication skills
- Strong analytical skills (in structuring and analysing)
- You know perfectly Excel and are comfortable with SAP FI/CO and BW. SaC and/or Power BI would be a plus
- You are fluent in English, French or German language skills would be a plus

**What we offer?**
- Personalized onboarding experience program designed to make your first days smooth
- Opportunities to learn and grow through Hager Group's awarded Hi University.
- Internal career opportunities, over 25% of our recruitments are through internal mobility
- A position in a team built only two years ago with Vision and Ambition
- Shaping the future, transforming and continuous omprovement is in our DNA
- A diversity of topics and roles in a Group position in an international environment within a successful solid company

**What are the recruitment stages?**
- Once your CV has been selected, you will be contacted by a recruiter for an initial phone exchange.
- You will be invited for a first interview with the hiring manager & the recruiter
- A second Interview will be then organized with the N+2 & the HR manager