Junior Financial Controller (m/f), Stolberg

Welcome at Saint-Gobain!

Saint-Gobain designs, produces and distributes materials and solutions which can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications.

Change the world – not on your own, but in a team that just pursued this mission for over 350 years. In one of the eight top global employer, one of the 100 largest industrial companies, with 170,000 employees and more than 39 billion euros in sales in over 60 countries.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Implementation of a backup function for the Financial Director of SWISSPACER
• Improvement and simplification of the Finance and Controlling processes in
• the international environment of SWISSPACER
• Improvement and simplification of the reporting structure
• Business partner for other departments of SWISSPACER
• Month-end close activities, financial reporting, root-cause analysis, variance reporting/analysis and incremental financial analysis/reporting
• Annual budget process, setting standard costs for the factory budgets
• Internal controls, process efficiency improvements and digital initiatives
• Cooperation with Saint Gobain Central Finance Teams in Paris and Aachen

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor/Master in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• 2-3 years’ experience as Consultant/Advisor in an accounting company or as Financial Analyst/Controller in an international industrial company
• Good analytical skills
• Proficient use of SAP in a Finance/Controlling environment
• Thorough knowledge of MS Windows tools (Excel, Access, Powerpoint)
• Team player with active communication skills and readiness to travel
• Motivated and customer oriented behaviour
• Very good skills in German and English (both spoken and written), other language skills like French or Polish are a plus

What we offer

• Excellent development opportunities in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Competent supervision of your career
• Varied activities in which you can implement your own ideas
• Flexible working hours
• Performance-linked wages