Business Controller (m/f/d)

About the Job

The Allianz Technology Finance Hub in Barcelona is looking for a Financial Controller to support Benelux Region.

The Financial Controller plans, forecasts, reports, analyzes, and challenges Financial KPIs and their main driver for services, projects and line cost centers in close collaboration with the business, and co-ordinates improvement measures. She/He advises and supports managers in all financial controlling topics.

Furthermore, the Financial Controller is responsible for implementation of controlling processes and systems and ensuring compliance to controlling-relevant standards.

What you do

• Analyze the financial performance of the company, identify key drivers, risks and opportunities and provide transparent and visual recommendations to enable decision-making.
• Create and deliver financial analyses, reports, and dashboards for various stakeholders on ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly, and yearly bases, while performing monthly expense analysis and completing reporting templates.
• Monitor actuals versus plan, analyze deviations and their drivers, recommend measures to ensure plan achievement and track the ongoing progress of major project initiatives.
• Develop financial targets and recommendations within the strategic and operational planning and forecasting processes, including long, mid and short-term perspectives and perform annual planning by delivering planbook input, staff cost input in SAP and revenue planning.
• Manage pricing processes by approving prices, supporting calculations, coordinating transfer pricing compliance, and liaising with procurement on contract costs, while also managing billing processes, approving invoices and updating service descriptions.
• Support and challenge business representatives based on financial analysis, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of guidelines, methods, processes, and systems for controlling topics to enhance financial planning, reporting, and operational efficiency.

What you bring

• 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar role possessing controlling, economic and business knowledge, with relevant work experience in Accounting, Controlling etc.
• Higher education degree in finance, business administration, economics or related area.
• Experienced in the application of systems that are relevant for Controlling, e.g. SAP FI-CO/BW.
• Applying analytical thinking, methodological and conceptual as well as moderation and presentation techniques.
• Quick understanding of existing procedures and ability to carry out concrete tasks in efficient cooperation with team members and other colleagues; role model character with talent to drive new ideas and take new perspectives to challenge existing solutions.
• Ability to work fully independent and solve complex problems or situations based on multiple sources of information as well as taking responsibility and being accountable for a project or a team.
• Possessing understanding of (IT) service management and (IT) service organizations.
• Basic knowledge of AI technologies, principles and their practical use.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz.

Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

 95685 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent