Senior Financial Controlling Specialist

Area of work:

In your new position as a Financial Controlling Specialist, you will act as a business partner supporting our Shared IT organization. Primarily you will be involved in supporting management with a variety of financial activities, including budget and capacity planning, financial reporting, forecasting, and the execution of financial closing activities.

The Chief of Staff/ IT strategy department supports the leadership team in financial steering across the CIO/COO organization. It is the interface between the Division management, the various business areas within the Division, the corporate central functions, and the various market business segments of Deutsche Börse Group. Being the main interface to the central functions of the group, the Chief of Staff/ IT strategy department is responsible for effective and efficient interface management and the development of well-structured solutions as decision proposals.

If you consider yourself someone with strong communication, analytical, and implementation skills, as well as a proactive, self-starting attitude, this position presents excellent opportunities for growth and development.

Your responsibilities:

Financial Performance & Budget Management: You will ensure financial transparency and stability within our Shared IT organization by performing financial closing activities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of results. Your responsibilities include managing budgets, monitoring performance, and mitigating risks. This includes accurate cost forecasting, driving annual budget processes and multi-year planning. Additionally, you will be calculating and maintaining allocation keys and ensuring accurate service costing based on our Shared IT service catalogue, providing business segments and legal entities with full cost transparency.

Financial Reporting, Communication & Stakeholder Management: As a trusted partner, you will provide timely and accurate financial reporting that ensures transparency and delivers actionable insights to line management and stakeholders. Your responsibilities include highlighting budget shortfalls and opportunities, as well as performing ad-hoc analyses to support senior management in maintaining budget adherence and making informed decisions.

Project Controlling: You will support project management in ensuring financial control and value delivery for key initiatives. This includes bottom-up demand collection, challenging of assumptions, consolidating financials, and identifying budget shortfalls or opportunities. You will take ownership of setting up and maintaining business cases, driving full project controlling processes (including capitalization process) and preparing dedicated financial project reports. In these reports, you will inform project management about the financial status, evaluate adherence to business cases by tracking KPIs, and demonstrate the impact of investments.

Your profile:

• Holder of a university degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics or related
• 5-8 years of experience in financial controlling, financial analysis, or a similar role
• Experience in work with SAP modules (e.g., R/3, Analytics Cloud) mandatory
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, particularly MS Excel, PowerPoint
• Good knowledge of accounting and controlling terminology
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and accuracy in financial analysis and reporting
• Self-Starter, Entrepreneurial with a "can do" attitude; Ability to take the initiative to "achieve results" and strong commitment to professional and client service excellence
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to positively engage and develop relationships with multiple stakeholders across geographical locations
• Team player, flexible and well organized – able to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, fluent in English