Cost Management Specialist
BARCELONA, B, ES, 08005
As a Cost Management Specialist, you will be responsible for reporting and steering company-wide committed savings while ensuring full transparency and pro-active identification of cost optimization opportunities and risks. In cooperation with Account management and Pricing teams you will play a key role in ensuring value pass-through to customers. You will lead end‑to‑end savings governance, and performance steering, supporting Senior Leadership with fact‑based insights and rigorous challenge of assumptions.
In this role, you will partner closely with the CEO Strategy & Transformation Office, Functional Leaders, Pricing, Account Management, and Controlling to ensure savings are identified, validated, executed, and sustained across planning cycles. Your work will directly contribute to achieving Year‑End Company targets, balancing cost discipline with business growth and customer commitments.
What you do
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Create and deliver comprehensive financial analyses, reports, and dashboards for multiple stakeholders on an ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
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Monitor Actuals versus Plan and Forecast, analyze deviations and their drivers, propose corrective measures, and track progress toward achieving financial objectives
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Develop strategic recommendations to drive the achievement of long, mid, and short-term financial targets
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Define, implement, and continuously improve guidelines, methodologies, and processes for Controlling and performance management.
What you bring
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Strong expertise and significant experience in Controlling within an international business environment
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Ability to influence senior stakeholders, proactively manage counter‑effects, and drive corrective actions to secure long‑, mid‑, and short‑term financial objectives
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Strong expertise with Finance systems and tools, particularly MS Excel and SAP FI-CO/BW; proficiency in advanced reporting and analytics solutions (MS Power BI) is mandatory
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Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and methodological thinking, combined with strong facilitation and presentation skills
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Ability and willingness to work independently, take full ownership of assigned topics, and manage multiple tasks under pressure while maintaining high quality and accuracy
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Basic knowledge of AI technologies, principles, and their practical use
What we offer
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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 centers, 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 Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace individuals of all gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ethnicities, ages, nationalities, religions, disabilities, and philosophies of life. Ultimately, our greatest strength as a company lies in the unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds our employees contribute.
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.
