Job Description

Why join the Finance department?

Finance plays a key role in supporting the company’s sustainable growth and long-term success. Our Finance teams provide strategic insights, ensure sound financial management, and drive informed decision-making across the organization. Through accurate financial planning, analysis, reporting, and governance, we help create value while maintaining a strong focus on performance, compliance, and business partnership.

By joining our Finance team, you will contribute to shaping business decisions, optimizing financial processes, and supporting strategic initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders across the organization, you will help ensure transparency, efficiency, and sustainable growth in a dynamic international environment.

In the Finance department, we are helping shape tomorrow’s electrical world. You can too – join us!

We are currently looking for our future Controlling Planning & Forecasting Specialist (m/f/d) based in Blieskastel or Obernai for a permanent contract.

As a Controlling Planning & Forecasting Specialist (m/f/d), you will contribute to the annual target setting process and run monthly forecasting cycles, while developing innovative forecasting methodologies, tools, and analytics capabilities. By combining financial expertise, data-driven thinking, and digital solutions, you will help improve forecast accuracy and enable better business decisions.

Your mission

• Develop and continuously improve forecasting methodologies and simulation tools, primarily within SAP Analytics Cloud, leveraging data-driven and machine-based forecasting approaches.
• Contribute to the definition, coordination, and execution of annual target-setting and monthly forecasting processes, ensuring timely delivery of key inputs and outputs.
• Run forecasting simulations, perform plausibility and consistency checks, and support management reviews with Controlling leadership and CFO.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospective analyses, comparing forecasted versus actual business performance and proposing enhancements to increase forecasting accuracy.
• Support the evolution of Hager’s forecasting strategy by identifying and implementing concrete actions, tools, and processes that strengthen our future steering model.

Your profile

• Master's Degree or Engineering Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in different areas of Controlling within an international environment.
• Strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of Profit & Loss statement, business drivers, forecasting techniques, and financial performance management.
• Advanced Excel skills and ideally hands-on experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC); strong affinity for digital tools and data-driven solutions.
• Fluent English (C1); additional knowledge of German or French is considered a plus.

What Makes You Successful

You combine financial expertise with a passion for analytics, process improvement, and digitalization. You enjoy translating complex business realities into forecasting models, collaborating across international teams, and continuously improving methods and tools to provide reliable insights for decision-making. Your ability to balance business understanding, data analysis, and stakeholder collaboration makes you a key contributor in Hager’s-Controlling function and company decisions.

Please provide your CV in English

What we offer?

• Personalized onboarding experience program designed to make your first days smooth
• Opportunities to learn and grow through Hager Group's awarded Hi University.
• Internal career opportunities, over 25% of our recruitments are through internal mobility

What are the recruitment stages?

• Once your CV has been selected, you will be contacted by a recruiter for an initial phone exchange.
• You will be invited for a first interview with the hiring manager & the recruiter
• A second Interview will be then organized with the N+2 & the HR manager

Our success relies on collective energy. Apply now and power up your future with us!