Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG | Germany | 30xxx Hannover | Permanent position | Full time / Home office | Published since: 22.06.2026 on stepstone.de
Controlling Director (m/f/d)
We salute the small and great moments of everyday life. Bahlsen is more than just a name behind famous brands like LEIBNIZ, BAHLSEN, PiCK UP! or RAWBITE. Since 1889 we have been one of the most famous German family companies. Our success is based on a strong team of more than 2,500 employees. Our common culture is the key to the future: we work together in an esteeming way and give each other a return. Everyone takes responsibility to advance improvements. We focus on the essentials and have the courage to make things easier. If you want to shape the future with curiosity and ambition, you are right with us. You are a leader with strategic vision and a real passion for financial controlling? Do you want to actively shape a company's financial strategy and contribute significantly to corporate success? Then become part of our team and lead our controlling into an innovative future! As Controlling Director (m/w/d) at the Hannover location, you take a key role in our organization. You are the strategic partner(s) of the management in all financial matters and drive the control, development and optimization of our entire controlling area (national and international). With your focus on team leadership, stakeholder collaboration and the provision of sound decision bases, you make a decisive contribution to the achievement of our corporate goals - also in the context of our own brands and international activities. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
Strategic partner at eye level: You act as a central contact person for the management in all relevant controlling questions and actively shape the basis of decision. You are responsible for budgeting, forecasting and planning at national and international level. Leadership & Motivator: You guide and motivate your team in a disciplined and professional manner, promote the Bahlsen culture, live our Bahlsen behaviors and ensure strong cohesion and efficient and cooperative interfaces. You develop and implement forward-looking financial analysis and forecasting models, optimize our controlling strategy, processes and systems for efficient corporate management. Consulting & optimization: You secure the processes and secure an optimal and proactive purchasing control, marketing control and product cost control with your team. You implement and establish uniform and efficient processes in commercial controlling at national and international level and ensure optimal business partnering. You work with the CFO trustfully, support the company's strategic and operational orientation and act as a savings partner: in all controlling and financial matters.
You control the implementation of cost-effectiveness analyses for investment decisions and bring a pronounced process thinking and solution orientation. Ideally, you know the peculiarities in the food or consumer goods sector, especially in terms of supply chains, marketing expenditure, pricing and competitive dynamics. Management experience & social competence: You are characterized by high social competence, communication skills, conflict management and experience in managing complex projects (e.g. system implementations, process optimizations). Comprehensive financial knowledge: You have basic knowledge of accounting (HGB/IFRS) and cost accounting as well as expertise in the development and implementation of control instruments (KPI systems, Balanced Scorecard). Negotiating German - and English are of course for you. You bring expertise in SAP S/4HANA and are versed in dealing with BI Tools, Data Governance and Microsoft Office/Google Workspace. You are interdisciplinary, show a high self-motivation and fits perfectly with our corporate culture.
You meet with colleagues who work with real passion in finance and who look forward to your expertise, fresh perspective and leadership. With us you can move things: you work independently, actively shape processes and drive improvements ahead, instead of just managing. Our headquarters in Hanover is centrally located on the Lister Platz and is optimally accessible. At the same time, you benefit from up to 50% mobile work in your home office. Flexible working hours in sliding time allow you to combine work and private life well and our excellent operating restaurant makes lunch break a highlight. Whether with the JobRad to work, traveling throughout Germany with the DeutschlandTicket or actively athletic via Hansefit, you stay mobile and fit. .
Location
![]() | Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG | |
| 30163 Hannover | ||
| Germany |
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