Senior Manager / Associate Director Finance Transformation (m/f/x) - Germany

Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, Munich ( as a listed private equity holding company, acquires medium-sized companies in special situations, which show significant operational improvement potential and are sold again after undergoing a repositioning and stabilization process. Mutares actively supports its portfolio companies with its own investment and operations teams and through strategic add-on acquisitions. The focus is on companies with revenues ranging from EUR 100 million to EUR 750 million, across various industries. The aim is to achieve a clear value increase with a focus on sustainable, long-term growth of the portfolio company.

Your Tasks

• Manage the restructuring and improvement processes for our portfolio companies on-site to implement and improve sound cash management processes on-site

• Partner closely with the Mutares restructuring team by conducting financial analyses, developing and integrating financial models, and critically evaluating business cases

• Prepare and execute financing solutions (factoring, asset-based funding, credit lines)

• Improve financial statement closing and other finance/controlling processes and assist in the preparation of financial statements and audit

• Manage the relationship with external stakeholders (auditors, financial advisers, banks, credit insurers, etc.)

Your Profile

• Successfully completed a Finance degree or similar with outstanding results

• At least 6 years of experience in restructuring consulting, management consulting, or a Controlling/Finance function within an industrial company, ideally with hands‑on exposure to turnaround and transformation situations

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with an entrepreneurial mindset and hands‑on approach

• Business fluency in German and English with the ability to communicate in a well‑structured and concise manner

• Willingness to travel up to 4 days per week across (typ. Mon-Thu)

What Mutares offers

• Work in a highly motivated, international, committed, and agile team that enjoys working together

• Exciting work environment with varied challenges, strategic influence, and tasks for continuous personal and professional development

• Flat hierarchies, fast decision‑making processes, and room for your own ideas

• Regular team events and offsites