Senior Financial Controller – Group People Development

Purpose

At Deutsche Telekom we believe that investing in our people is key to unlocking our full potential. Within HR Headquarters our Group People Development team drives global HR products such as learning skills intelligence engagement and performance management making Telekom the best place to develop and ensure sustainable impact and responsible investment decisions we are strengthening our financial steering capabilities.

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.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications :

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• 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.

Additional Information :

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work career growth private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2000 /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time