Senior Financial Controller- Group People Development

As Senior Financial Controller for Group People Development, you will take full ownership of financial planning, forecasting, and budget steering for HR initiatives. You will act as a strategic advisor to the Leadership Team, ensuring financial transparency, target achievement, and fact-based decision-making.
This role combines strong controlling expertise with stakeholder management at senior level. You will proactively shape financial measures, challenge assumptions, and ensure that investments in people development generate measurable business value.

Your Responsibilities

• Own bottom-up and top-down financial planning at unit and project level, including multi-year planning and scenario modeling.
• Lead forecasting cycles and variance analyses, ensuring transparent budget steering and reliable financial outlooks.
• Analyze and interpret monthly results, identify deviations and financial risks, and derive concrete corrective measures with clear action tracking.
• Steer savings targets and cost efficiency initiatives in close alignment with Leadership and Project Leads.
• Manage year-end closing activities, including accruals and provisions, ensuring compliance with corporate finance standards and reporting requirements.
• Prepare decision-ready financial insights, steering options, and recommendations for Leadership meetings, and moderate financial discussions where required.
• Act as primary interface to Finance and HR, ensuring alignment between financial planning, workforce planning, and strategic priorities.
• Continuously improve financial transparency through dashboards, KPIs, and structured reporting formats.
  
  

Optional Role Enrichment

• Support selected organizational development and transformation initiatives with structured planning, budget transparency, and implementation tracking.
• Contribute to the preparation and orchestration of key leadership and people development formats (e.g., strategy workshops, learning events, kick offs).
• Help translate strategic people priorities into actionable roadmaps with financial clarity and measurable outcomes.

The published salary is the minimum possible offer.
The starting salary may be higher depending on the extent of fulfillment of the employee's requirements (education, language skills, required practice, personality assumptions and skills).

• University degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field.
• Several years of professional experience in Controlling, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), or Finance Business Partnering within a corporate environment.
• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, accrual management, and financial reporting.
• Profound knowledge of HR and HR Development products and their financial implications are beneficial.
• Proven experience in stakeholder management and confident interaction with senior leadership.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations.
• Interest in broader organizational development topics and cross-functional collaboration.
• High level of ownership, structured working style, and strong execution discipline.
• Excellent communication skills in English; German language would be beneficial.

• Annual bonus
• Fully paid meal vouchers
• Mobile phone also for private use
• Discounts for selected Telekom products
• Supplementary pension saving contribution
• Cafeteria system of benefits/Multisport card
• My days
• Sports club & Health days
• Teambuildings, summer & Christmas party
• Opportunities for career growth
• Referral program
• Flexible working time