Financial Controller

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 7,300 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow.   

Job role

Controlling is the partner of the business by enabling the Service Owners to have full transparency of costs (operational and capital expenditures, HR cost), to steer the P&L.
Bundling financial topics and ensuring that our stakeholders achieve their financial targets, steering the P&L by analyzing, reporting, advising and challenging the business with regard to actual, plan and forecast. Being the partner of our stakeholders by providing financial transparency and guidance regarding financial decisions. Drafting and assessing business cases to provide input for senior executives’ decisions. Evaluating staff requisitions, external spend and master data.

What you will do

• Develop recommendations for financial targets within the strategic and operational planning and forecasting process (long-, mid- and short term perspective).
• Monitor actuals vs. plan, analyses deviations and their drivers, recommend measures to ensure plan achievement and tracks ongoing progress of e.g. major project initiatives.
• Support and challenge business representatives based on financial analysis.
• Partner of the IT service owners business teams and project managers by providing financial transparency and guidance to the management team regarding financial decision processes and systems for controlling topics.
• Create and provide financial analyses, reports and dashboards for various stakeholders (ad-hoc, monthly, quarterly, yearly base).
• Evaluate, develop, coordinate and support the preparation of financial accounts , e.g. services, materials and cost centers.
• Advise business in business case development, evaluate financial impact and provide recommendations for top-management decisions on projects.
• Ad-hoc reports, analysis, requests (Excel, Power BI etc.).

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Min. 3 years work experience within controlling tasks, ideally in an international matrix organization.
• Experienced in the application of systems that are relevant for controlling analyst, e.g. SAP FI-CO/BW, SNOW etc.
• Experience in steering operational and capital expenditures and the related accounting standards.
• Ability to work fully independently and solve complex problems or situations based on multiple sources of information.
• Fluent in English; German is a plus.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (mostly Germany).
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team. 

You have

• Proven experience in financial analysis and cost-saving strategies.
• Experience in steering of cost for space and facilities management and office move projects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail, passion for working with numbers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Proficiency in financial reporting tools and software.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments.
• Work ethic and integrity, reliability.
• Embraces the four Allianz People Attributes: Customer & Market Excellence, Collaborative Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Trust.

What we offer

We support your well-being

• Access dedicated counseling services, mental health resources, and well-being sessions designed to keep you feeling your best
• Enjoy a personalized benefits package through a monthly budget on the Benefit platform, covering medical subscriptions, meal tickets, private pension plans, life insurance, Allianz Tiriac exclusive insurance discounts, and many more.
• Prioritize what truly matters with time off on your birthday, additional vacation days for each year with Allianz (up to five extra days), Paid leave on December 24th and 31st, plus the flexibility to swap weekend holidays for extra days off, and special allowances for significant life events.

We invest in your growth

Take advantage of an extensive learning curriculum tailored to support your career growth and meet your professional needs, with access to a wide range of technical and soft skills trainings, international certifications (including Agile, Lean Six Sigma, PRINCE2, ITIL, IFOA, ACCA, IACCM, and more), learning resources from LinkedIn and Allianz platforms, language development opportunities (German, French, English), and our dedicated Leadership Program to help you reach the next level.

We value you and your work

We acknowledge and recognize your work through performance-based rewards to celebrate your achievements, team, and individual recognition programs to celebrate your contributions and internal referral bonuses.  

Your personal information, including sensitive data, may be shared with Hiring Managers to evaluate your suitability for the role. Only candidates who meet the criteria will be contacted, and all applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.

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.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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