Finance Business Partner
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Job Description
Position: Finance Business Partner
Start Date: Q4 2025
Location: FFM area Germany hybrid with partial home office flexibility
Our client an international industrial group with private equity backing and production sites in Germany South America and the far east is seeking a Finance Business Partner to lead its global cost management and production controlling activities. This role will provide financial and operational leadership to ensure efficiency transparency and cross-site comparability across the companys manufacturing footprint.
The Head of Production Controlling will:
- Lead a team of six production business partners (3 in Germany 3 with matrix reporting lines internationally)
- Track and analyse production costs (raw materials labour overheads) ensuring adherence to budget.
- Establish and standardise production controlling processes across all global sites.
- Deliver detailed cost breakdowns to identify inefficiencies and cost-reduction opportunities.
- Analyse variances between actual and budgeted production costs with corrective action planning.
- Partner with production teams to create accurate and realistic budgets and forecasts.
Candidate Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration Supply Chain Management Industrial Engineering or related field (MBA or advanced degree a plus).
- Minimum 7 years experience in production management supply chain or a related field ideally with controlling / accounting exposure.
- Proven leadership or cross-functional team management experience in a global environment.
- Certifications such as Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing or PMP preferred.
- Strong numeracy IT literacy and analytical decision-making skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to influence across all levels.
- Proactive ownership-driven with a critical and structured mindset.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
- Fluent in English and German.
Key Skills
- Marketing & Sales
- Business Administration
- Bid
- Instrumentation & Control
- HACCP
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