Senior HR Controller- Group People Development

As Senior HR 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 HR controlling, workforce planning, and financial steering 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 workforce planning and FTE steering, including forecasting, tracking, and alignment with business and financial targets.
• Own and drive planning, forecasting, and active budget steering of HR initiatives and investments.
• Analyze monthly results, identify deviations and financial risks, and drive concrete corrective actions.
• Steer cost efficiency and savings initiatives in close alignment with Leadership and Project Leads.
• Act as key interface between HR and Finance, challenging assumptions and ensuring alignment of workforce and financial planning.
• Prepare decision-ready insights, recommendations, and steering options for senior leadership.
• Ensure accurate closing activities (accruals, provisions) in line with corporate standards.
• Improve transparency through dashboards, FTE KPIs, and structured reporting.

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.

We work in a HYBRID STYLE of working.

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 HR Controlling/Finance, Workforce Planning, FP&A with HR focus, or a comparable field.
• Strong experience in FTE planning, headcount steering, and personnel cost management.
• Solid background in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Good understanding of HR processes and their financial impact.
• Experience working with senior HR stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn data into clear recommendations.
• Structured, proactive, and ownership-driven working style.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

• 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