Controlling Professional

You’ve taken your first steps in controlling—now let’s grow together.

At **KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA** we are excited to meet people like you - early-career professionals who are ready to dive deeper into controlling and want to make a real impact.

We are an independent, sustainable company with international reach and strong local roots — and above all, we believe in closeness, team spirit and staying close to what matters.

In this role as our new **Controlling Professional (M/F/d)** you will focus on steering production controlling processes, calculating production costs and creating meaningful analyses and accurate reports that bring clarity and support smart decision-making. You will also collaborate closely with colleagues around the world—because teamwork here truly knows no borders.

This is a permanent position and available on a full-time basis. The start date is asap.

The place of work is at our HQ in Einbeck, Lower Saxony.

**Your key responsibilities**:

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Cost controlling**: collection and analysis of production costs, development of standard costs, conduction of variance analysis and identification cost saving opportunities
- ** Budgeting & Forecasting**:support the Business Partners Controlling with COGM calculation as well as the steering collection of production details
- ** Closings**:preparation of WIP booking, calculation of COGS by crop for quarterly closing, and inventory management (limited scope)
- ** Master data**:maintenance of master data in accordance with established steering models
- ** Collaboration and communication**:collaborating with international production and controlling colleagues to ensure cost control governance

**Your profile**:

- Master’s degree in economics, business administration, agribusiness or comparable
- First professional experience in (production) controlling and/or finance - ideally in an international environment or having worked as an intern / working student in the field of controlling or finance
- Proven IT literacy in MS Excel - having worked with SAP R3, S4 Hana, Business Warehouse is an asset
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Structured, self-motivated and self-organized individual
- Able to drive goal achievements
- Committed team player
- Fluent in both English and German (written and spoken)

**Why joining KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA**:

- Ideal opportunity to build your career within a unique organization with big ambitions
- As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly work atmosphere
- According to our slogan “_Make yourself grow_”: we support your professional and personal development and succession opportunities
- Fantastic colleagues in a motivated team
- Excellent work equipment, a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen, direct train connection and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location
- Family-friendly working environment: flexible working hours, company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares and a job bike and job ticket option