Manager Corporate Controlling (m/f/d)

You will play a key role in shaping financial decision-making at tesa by acting as a trusted business partner to senior management. With your insights, you directly influence performance, strategy, and long-term value creation across the global organization.

In this role, you go beyond classical controlling: you actively challenge business perspectives, translate financial data into clear recommendations, and drive forward-looking planning and forecasting processes. You also contribute to modernizing controlling by leveraging digital tools and data-driven approaches.

Working closely with regions, Business Units, and corporate functions, you ensure transparency, consistency, and impact in financial steering.

• Guide financial decision-making by providing relevant reporting, KPI monitoring, and forward-looking forecasts
• Deliver comprehensive financial insights to senior management by analyzing and interpreting business performance across the tesa Group
• Coordinate and steer global planning and forecasting processes, ensuring high-quality and consistent outputs across regions and Business Units
• Analyze budget variances and translate findings into clear, decision-ready recommendations
• Conduct in-depth financial analyses (e.g. profitability, cost, and variance analyses) to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Act as a sparring partner for senior stakeholders - challenging assumptions, bringing independent perspectives, and influencing decisions
• Contribute to strategy development and performance reviews, ensuring alignment between financial targets and execution
• Drive the next generation of controlling by advancing digital, data-driven ways of working

• University degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
• Several years of experience (approx. 5+ years) in controlling (business, regional) and corporate finance within an international environment
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, and budgeting processes
• Proven track record in financial planning, analysis, and the improvement of controlling tools and processes
• Strong analytical thinking combined with the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights
• High level of proactivity, independence, and resilience, with a strong sense of ownership
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence in interacting with senior stakeholders
• Experience with ERP, consolidation systems & tools, Analysis for Office, and advanced Excel; affinity for digital and data-driven working methods

tesa is one of the world's leading manufacturers of adhesive tape solutions, with a range of more than 7,000 products. With passion for technology, we drive innovation, reliability, and sustainability to shape a better future.

Our solutions make a difference in the work, products, and lives of our customers across a variety of industries, including Automotive, Electronics, and Home applications. With this, we address a broad segment of business customers, but also you as a private consumer.

You might be surprised to discover the many places where our adhesive solutions are at work, from the battery in your electric car, to the display of your mobile phone, and even in the elevator in your building. Wherever you look, you'll find tesa - holding the world together since more than 125 years.

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