Operation Controller

WORK LOCATION: Berlin or remotely within Germany

DIRECT REPORT: Head of Controlling

FULL-TIME

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Operation Controlling is a focus subarea of the Controlling team. The focus is on the intersections between the specialist areas and the area of influence on the company as a whole. The aim is to control and advise specialist departments in the context of corporate strategy, productivity and cost efficiency.

Specifically, the primary responsibilities of the future position holder include:

• Business sparring (sparring for the business units in understanding and managing financial results from the monthly financial statements and the budget)
• Being representative of the controlling team for operational issues
• Business partner for up to 3 departments
• Collaboration in the month-end closing process
• Cost Controlling of the departments (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Logistics, SCM)
• Intercompany pricing reconciliations
• Further development of contribution margin accounting
• Further development of cost center accounting
• Profit center analyses
• Calculate and accompany cost reduction measures
• Calculate and support profitability programs

WHAT YOU BRING IN

• A university degree in business administration (university, FH, BA) ideally with a focus on controlling or finance.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in controlling or finance in a medium-sized company structure or a start-up.
• A keen awareness of and interest in the operational success factors of the business as well as the corresponding processes and constraints
• Ability to recognize important interrelationships between specialist areas and to move efficiently within them, as well as to drive forward change processes
• High interpersonal and communication skills with the strong level of assertiveness
• Data driven mentality
• Quick grasp of many new topics
• Interest and willingness to familiarize yourself with the management models of the specialist departments
• Ability to quickly convert requirements into independent results
• Sufficient analytical and deductive skills to establish modern, agile and, above all, digital commercial systems
• Bringing creative processes to a result in a consistent and goal-oriented manner.
• Knowledge in the use of common ERP systems is required
• Fluent English skills

WHAT WE PROVIDE

The DEVELOPMENT of each exponDOer is of the upmost importance to us:

• You will be assigned to a buddy, who will support, advise and simply be there during there for you during the first 4 to 6 weeks of the onboarding.
• Your opinion makes a difference, and you will help us to shape with us expondo s future.
• We provide free user accounts for both Udemy for Business and Babble to promote your constant development.

We offer all our employees the FREEDOM to work how it is best suited to their needs:

• Whether it will be remote, from the office or a hybrid of both, we will support any decision made and provide the needed hardware to work in comfort.
• If you decide to work at one our locations, all the recommended protective measures are in place for a safe working environment.
• We provide flexible working hours

In our CULTURE we respect our employees needs and care for each other:

• We care about everyone s physical and mental health, and that is why we provide the best possible conditions for a sustainable work-life balance.
• You will be a part of a diverse team in which good humour, mutual support and respect are highly valued.

The expondo group is an international e-commerce company with more than 400 employees. We are a renowned manufacturer and online retailer of niche products created by experts for experts, operating in Europe and having locations in Germany, Poland, Hong Kong and China. Our focus is to provide our customers with an appropriate and scalable service.

To be a part of the extended expondo family is to be a part of an ambitious and dynamic global company. What lies ahead in terms of future is in the hands of our employees. It is their ideas, vision, skills, and talents which allow for us to succeed in this fast paced, globalizing world. Our purpose is to empower DOers.

We put five simple values in the center of everything we do.

LIFESAVER MENTALITY as in I would trust any exponDOer with my life

AN AMPLIFIED FOCUS ON DATA as in Without data, it s just an opinion

BEING PASSIONATE CAN-DOERS as in When SpaceX landed a rocket on Mars, expondo was there to repair it

FUELLING POSITIVE ENERGY as in Our positive energy is so contagious the common cold is jealous

OUTLEARNING OURSELVES as in Our biggest learning is that we still have a lot more to learn

It s time to get it done with expondo and the time is now.

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