Head of Controlling Automotive Interior (f/m/diverse) - Executive - REF2637F

In a future private-equity environment, your focus will be on **profitable growth, margin and cash improvement, rigorous performance management and fast execution of value-creation initiatives**.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for an experienced finance professional who is able to challenge the business, make clear recommendations and take accountability for results.

• *Your responsibilities:**
• Full ownership of segment financial performance, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning
• Trusted and challenging business partner to the Segment Head and senior management
• Drive margin expansion, pricing, cost optimization, working-capital improvement and investment returns
• Translate strategic priorities into clear financial targets, actions and accountabilities
• Identify performance gaps, opportunities and risks early, and ensure effective countermeasures
• Lead business cases, portfolio decisions, investment evaluations and value-creation initiatives
• Establish transparent, decision-oriented reporting and a strong performance culture
• Lead and further develop the international Segment Controlling team
• *Qualifications**
• University degree in finance, controlling, accounting, business administration or a comparable discipline
• Several years of relevant finance and controlling experience, ideally in an international manufacturing or automotive environment
• Proven experience managing a **full P&L**, driving business performance and influencing operational and commercial decisions
• Strong leadership experience and the ability to lead through change and increased performance expectations
• Excellent analytical judgment combined with a pragmatic, hands-on and action-oriented approach
• Strong commercial mindset with clear focus on **value creation, cash generation and return on investment**
• Confident communication with senior management and the ability to challenge constructively
• Experience in a private-equity, transformation, carve-out or performance-improvement environment is a strong advantage
• Business-fluent English required; German language skills are a plus

Applications from severely handicapped people are welcome.

• *Additional Information**

The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:

• Training opportunities
• Mobile and flexible working models
• Sabbaticals

and much more...

Sounds interesting for you? [Click here to find out more.](https://www.continental.com/en/career/working-at-continental/benefits/)

[Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging](https://www.continental.com/en/career/working-at-continental/corporate-culture-values/diversity/) are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.

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Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Tabelle; dl-de/by-2-0; eigene Berechnung