Site Controlling Manager (f/m/d)

Responsibilities

• Freudenberg Performance Materials is a leading global provider of innovative technical textiles and a pioneer in nonwovens, serving diverse industries with high‑performance material solutions.
• In this role, you will act as our General Industry finance business partner - creating transparency, steering performance, and enabling fact-based decisions across a complex stakeholder landscape.
• Transparency: Build confidence in the numbers through reliable reporting, strong data discipline, and clear financial narratives stakeholders can act on.
• Steering: Identify cost drivers and profitability levers, translate analysis into decision options, and drive performance improvement.
• Cross-Functional Partnering: Act as a trusted sparring partner to site leadership, constructively challenging priorities, investments, and assumptions anchored in sound business logic.
• Alignment: Bridge site realities with BU/global expectations; ensure consistent financial logic, assumptions, and shared understanding across interfaces.
• Judgment: Navigate tension and conflicting priorities with neutrality and maturity - knowing when to push and when to harmonize to protect business performance.

Requirements

• Academic background in controlling, finance, business administration, or a comparable qualification.
• Several years of controlling/finance experience in a manufacturing environment; strong budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis foundation.
• Solid ERP/SAP controlling and reporting/analytics exposure; strong standard costing and financial close understanding.
• Languages: English and German languages; both written and spoken
• Skills for success in this role
• Stakeholder influence & business partnering (earn buy‑in without authority).
• Neutrality, integrity & judgment in complex / political environments.
• Business acumen & value orientation (translate insights into outcomes).
• Strategic perspective and global mindset (connect site ↔ BU ↔ global).
• Clear, confident communication, able to simplify finance for non‑finance leaders.
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• Freudenberg Performance Materials GmbH & Co. KG

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