Business Unit Controller - Corn (m/f/d)

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Job ID: 15871

Are you ready to take on a key position at the core of our business? We are looking for a Business Unit Controller – Corn (m/f/d) to join KWS SAAT and play a vital role with our leadership team at the headquarters in Einbeck (Lower Saxony/Germany) .

In this position, you will act not only as a strategic but also as an operational partner and financial co-pilot, driving business performance, ensuring financial transparency, and supporting our ongoing growth and innovation journey.

Your Responsibilities

• Serve as a proactive partner to the Business Unit (BU) management, supporting both strategic steering and operational excellence.
• Translate the BU strategy into concrete, actionable measures , ensuring effective implementation and progress tracking.
• Lead and coordinate the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes across the Business Unit, in close collaboration with Regional and Country Heads, Global Controlling, and Global Finance.
• Support the management team with financial insights, performance analyses, and scenario modeling to enable sound decision-making.
• Contribute to organizational development , including the implementation of new business models and process improvements.
• Ensure compliance with corporate standards while fostering agility and a culture of continuous improvement.

Your Profile

• Relevant university degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Customer-oriented mindset (internal and external) with strong communication and intercultural skills.
• Proven professional experience in international Controlling or a similar finance role.
• Strong background in Financial Controlling , with hands-on experience in ERP systems (SAP), proficient use of Excel, and familiarity with other tools such as Power BI.
• Fluent English skills (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture , connect the dots, and derive meaningful conclusions from complex data.
• Agile, accountable, and self-driven – someone who takes initiative and enjoys making an impact.

What we offer

• An exceptionally interesting and varied job in an international environment with the opportunity to contribute to innovative ideas.
• Working in an international, highly motivated, and dynamic team.
• Flexible working hours with the possibility of mobile working.
• As a family-run company, we live by the values of team spirit, closeness and trust, independence and vision - a culture that is also lived out in practice, e.g. through an open and friendly working atmosphere.
• Following the motto: "Make yourself grow!" we promote individual professional and personal development.
• We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: capital-forming benefits, Christmas and holiday pay, childcare allowance, JobRad.

Be part of the future with KWS! We welcome online applications via SuccessFactors.

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: . Follow us on LinkedIn® at data privacy policy for candidates is available on . Please select the country where the job you applied for is posted in and, if applicable, the specific business unit.

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