Manager Real Estate Controlling

Manager Real Estate Controlling (all genders)

The Investment Office of the Hasso Plattner Foundation

We are a small, high-caliber investment office managing the global, multi-asset endowment of the Hasso Plattner Foundation. Established by SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, the Foundation has grown into one of Europe's most ambitious philanthropic institutions building and running its own long-term philanthropic initiatives.

In the Investment Office, our mandate is to compound capital over decades to fund the Foundation's own philanthropic initiatives – Hasso Plattner Institute, Museum Barberini, Sabine Plattner African Charities, and more – into perpetuity. We allocate to funds and make select direct (co-)investments across public equities, leveraged buyouts, venture and growth capital, hedge funds, and real assets. We work with a long-term horizon and genuine strategic latitude, not mandate-constrained execution.

This is a distinct world of work: lean team, high ownership, short reporting lines, and meaningful work that funds impactful institutions you can see and visit.

This role sits at the intersection of construction, portfolio management, and investment controlling. It's the lean expert function that keeps HPF's real estate — including existing, planned and those under construction – are developed, managed and monitored in a financially sound and sustainable manner.

This role is based in Potsdam, Germany. We work predominantly in-office, by design. It's how we keep decisions fast and collaboration real.

The Role

As Manager Real Estate Controlling (all genders) for the Hasso Plattner Foundation, you support the Head of Real Estate on projects and the existing portfolio, including construction controlling and accurate recording of transactions in our reporting systems. From there, you spot strengths and weaknesses in the portfolio and turn them into clear input for decisions.

Your Responsibilities

• Own construction controlling for current and upcoming real estate projects, including budget tracking, financing oversight, and construction progress monitoring
• Prepare budgets and financial feasibility analyses for real estate acquisitions
• Manage and benchmark the existing real estate portfolio, with a focus on Berlin/Brandenburg
• Support the Head of Real Estate Investment with controlling input across the investment cycle
• Control and report on key performance indicators
• Manage audits for real estate SPVs
• Maintain asset-related data in internal systems
• Support due diligence processes for acquisitions and disposals
• Support negotiation and execution of investment-related contracts and documentation

What You Bring

• Good bachelor’s or master’s degree; any real estate specific qualification is a plus
• At least three years of relevant professional experience in real estate controlling, construction management, real estate investment management or real estate advisory
• High affinity for IT-applications, AI, and numbers; proficient in MS Excel; SAP knowledge is a plus
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in oral and written German and English

You Are...

• Detail-oriented and self-motivated
• Analytical, with a strong sense of integrity and discretion
• Diligent, data-driven, and curious
• Proactive, you follow through without being told twice.

What We Offer

• Working in a motivated team with flat hierarchies
• Support to pursue professional training
• AI tools in active use. We’re early in the journey, building seriously and we see AI as a means to an end, not a headline
• Competitive compensation
• A collaborative, in-person culture with state-of-the-art IT, public transport ticket, free lunch, outdoor sports, and a beautiful lakeside office in Potsdam