Business Controller LivTec (m/f/diverse) - REF1792M

Company Description

Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 76,000 people in 54 countries and markets.

ContiTech is one of the world’s leading material experts for industry applications. The Continental group sector offers its customers reliable, safe and convenient industry and service solutions using a range of materials for off-highway applications, on rails and roads, in the air, under and above the ground, in industrial environments, for the food sector and the furniture industry. With about 20,000 employees (Status as of March 2026) at more than 60 sites globally, and sales of some 6.0 billion euros (2025), the global industrial partner is active with core branches in Asia, Europe and North and South America.

Job Description

As Business Controller (m/f/diverse) LivTec, you serve as the financial business partner to the LivTec leadership team, providing analytical insights, commercial guidance, and performance transparency to support strategic and operational decision-making. Through proactive performance steering and profitability management, you help drive sustainable business success.

Your responsibilities:

Business Partnering & Management Support

• Act as financial business partner for LivTec Segment Management, Vertical Heads & its sales organization
• Support management decisions through fact-based financial analysis and commercial consulting
• Actively challenge business assumptions and propose improvement measures to enhance profitability and sustainable growth

Sales Strategy & Planning

• Provide controlling expertise in the LivTec strategy process, including contribution to sales strategy development
• Support long-term planning activities (e.g. LTSP) with robust financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Translate strategic targets into actionable sales and financial KPIs

Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Steering

• Own and drive performance steering cadence (weekly/monthly) including KPI tree, countermeasures and follow-up tracking (PDCA)
• Use PVM reporting transparency (price-volume-mix drivers) to steer and challenge execution with relevant stakeholders
• Lead profitability improvement program tracking (measures, impact, owners, timing)
• Take ownership for content, correctness, and timing of the LivTec budget process
• Ensure high-quality sales forecasting, including volume, price, mix, and margin development
• Analyze deviations and proactively identify risks and opportunities

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare management-oriented business insights & decision papers based on standard reporting outputs for Segment and Regional Management
• Monitor and analyze sales, contribution margins, customer and product profitability and derive actions/steering implications
• Drive business requirements for performance transparency & ensure steering adoption across regions/industries

Global Controlling Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with controlling peers within the Business Area (BA) and across regions
• Ensure alignment with corporate and BU controlling standards and processes
• Define and prioritize business requirements for improvements (tools/process/data)

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, Controlling, or comparable
• Several years of experience in Sales Controlling / Business Controlling, preferably in an industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience working in a global, matrix organization is an advantage

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with a clear business mindset
• Ability to translate complex financial data into management-relevant insights
• Confident communication and stakeholder management across hierarchical levels
• Structured, proactive, and solution-oriented working style
• Advanced MS Excel skills; experience with SAP and BI tools is a plus
• Fluent in English, German is an advantage

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

Additional Information

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

• Training opportunities
• Mobile and flexible working models
• Sabbaticals

and much more...
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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.