Finance & Controlling Manager

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Manager in Finance & Controlling for a packaging design agency focusing on holistic packaging solutions. Responsible for financial forecasting, analysis, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

  • Outgoing invoices & accounts receivable management: You ensure that our invoices are correct, complete and sent in a timely manner — and that incoming payments are monitored.
  • Preparation and dispatch of outgoing invoices based on completed projects
  • Monitoring open items and independent dunning
  • Point of contact for clients regarding invoice and payment queries
  • Incoming invoices & accounts payable accounting: You ensure a clean, structured document workflow on the receipts side.
  • Review, categorization and preliminary posting of incoming invoices
  • Maintenance and reconciliation of accounts payable
  • Point of contact for suppliers regarding payment and billing queries
  • Planning: You always keep an overview of our financial situation and plan proactively.
  • Daily bank reconciliations and processing of payment transactions
  • Communication with banks
  • Maintenance of liquidity forecasts
  • Controlling & Reporting: You provide management with decision-relevant figures — concise and without detours.
  • Independent cost analyses: You identify variances, question cost structures and actively propose optimizations
  • Preparation of profit-and-loss statements (P&L), cost overviews and key metrics for management
  • Close cooperation with our external tax/accounting firm: providing documents, clarifying queries, supporting the annual financial statements
  • Active participation in shaping and improving our accounting and reporting processes
  • Collaboration with our automation team to digitize financial workflows
  • You contribute ideas on where processes can become more efficient, leaner or better
  • Payroll accounting (preparatory): Support with preparatory payroll accounting in coordination with the tax advisor and HR

Requirements:

  • Completed commercial training, ideally as an accountant, tax clerk or equivalent
  • Initial experience in financial accounting or controlling
  • Confident use of common accounting software (especially DATEV) and ERP systems
  • Good understanding of business metrics and profit & loss (P&L) structures
  • Structured, conscientious working style
  • Proactive communication: you escalate issues in time before problems arise
  • Basic knowledge of preparatory payroll accounting is a plus, not required

Benefits:

  • A strategic key position with direct influence on company development
  • Close collaboration with senior management
  • High degree of autonomy and fast decision-making
  • Dynamic team & open corporate culture
  • Flexible working hours
  • Home office option
  • Contribution to company pension plan
  • Monthly voucher card
  • 30 days annual leave