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


















